Governance Models

Recommended Prerequisites

Not applicable.

Teaching Methods

Lectures and tutorials, with the lectures alternating with the critical examination of governance models, in particular those implemented in the higher education system.

Learning Outcomes

The main objective of the course is to enable students: a) understand contemporary governance structures against the backdrop of the preexisting ones; b) challenge the models currently in place; c) apply this training to different organizational structures.   

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1. Rule, governance and government
1.1. Core concepts

1.2. Governance and New Public Management

1.3. Governance and Public Values

1.4. Governance and Regulatory State

2. Governance models
2.1. Bureaucratic governance

2.2. Corporate governance

2.3. Managerialism

2.4. Network governance

3. Higher Education Governance
3.1. Higher Education institutions in the context of the Portuguese Administration organization

3.1.1. Between indirect State Administration and autonomous Administration

3.1.2. Public Higher Education network

3.2. Types of models: faculty governance, corporative governance, trustee governance, governance by interested parties, organized anarchy

3.3. Higher Education Governance in Portugal

3.4. Bologne and Europe 2020: governance challenges.

Head Lecturer(s)

Graça Maria Correia Coelho Martins de Carvalho

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Synthesis work: 50.0%
Frequency: 50.0%

Bibliography

Kjaer, A. (2004). Governance. Polity Key Concepts in the Social Sciences Series. Cambridge: Polity Press.

Magalhães, A.; Veiga, A.; Ribeiro, F.; Amaral, A. (2013). Governance and Institutional Autonomy: Governing and Governance in Portuguese Higher Education. Higher Education Policy. 26; 243-262.

Mano, M. (2007). Proposal for a Governance Decision-making Model in a Portuguese Public University (PPU). Tese de doutoramento em Gestão. University of Southampton.

Mano, M. e Marques, M. (2012). Novos modelos de governo na universidade pública em Portugal e competitividade. RAP; Rio de Janeiro 46 (3):721-36.

Pedrosa, J.; Santos, H.; Mano, M.; Gaspar, T. (2012). Novo modelo de governança e gestão das instituições de Ensino Superior em Portugal – análise dos usos do modelo em Instituições Públicas. Conselho Nacional de Educação.

Rhodes, R. (1996) The New Governance: Governing Without Government. Political Studies. XLIV, 652—667.