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Opening Luncheon: "The Globalization of Public Policy Teaching." |
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Summary: The workshop began over lunch with a wide-ranging conversation of the issues to be discussed in depth in the subsequent three sessions.
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| Moderators: Douglas Besharov (University of Maryland/AEI) and Sandra Archibald (University of Washington) |
Session Summary
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Session A: "Are There Universals of Policy Analysis?" |
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Purpose: The participants were asked to address these issues:
How do different cultures and political and social institutions affect the policy process, policy choices, and, hence, policy analysis?
How is policy analysis used (or not used) in different countries?
Are there a common set of skills that all policy analysts should possess? If so, what are they?
Should skills be taught in different ways depending on the national, cross-national, or multi-national setting?
How can international cases and materials be used in core analytic classes, and how can they be used to create special value-added?
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Moderator: David Weimer (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
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| How Portable Is the Policy Analysis Curriculum? |
| Peter Reuter, University of Maryland |
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| Are There Universals in Policy Analysis? |
| Younguck Kang, KDI School of Public Policy and Management, South Korea |
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| Balancing Universal and Local Knowledge in Teaching the Comparative Policy Process: An Actor-Centered Approach |
| Kent Weaver, Georgetown University |
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Session B: "Teaching the Skills of Policy Research and Evaluation."
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Purpose: The participants were asked to address these issues:
Research and evaluation are intended to help guide policy. What are the various research and evaluation tools used in different countries?
How are the tools similar and how are they different? Can we learn from each other?
What materials and teaching methods work best in cross-national and multi-national settings (lectures, Socratic method, and case method)?
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| Moderator: Rebecca Maynard, University of Pennsylvania |
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| Teaching Policy Research and Evaluation Skills in Italy: Mission Impossible? |
| Alberto Martini, Università del Piemonte Orientale, Italy |
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| The Vienna E-Lecturing - VEL |
| Christiane Spiel, University of Vienna, Austria |
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| Some Brief Thoughts on Teaching Some Features of Program Evaluation |
| Richard Berk, University of Pennsylvania |
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| Teaching Evaluation Methods: Reflections from the UK |
| Robert Walker, University of Oxford, United Kingdom |
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Session C: "Teaching Comparative Public Management." |
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Purpose: The participants were asked to address these issues:
How do policy implementation, government budgeting, and performance management operate in countries with different state capacities?
How can the curriculum encompass management differences among advanced industrial and less developed countries?
Is it possible to have a "unified" approach to teaching public management across cultures?
If so, what are the elements of such a unified approach?
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| Moderator: Chris deNeubourg, Maastricht University, Netherlands |
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| Choices for Internationalising the Teaching of Public Management |
| Claudia Scott, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand and the Australia and New Zealand School of Government |
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| Teaching Comparative Public Management in the U.S. Classroom |
| Mary Kay Gugerty, University of Washington |
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| Teaching Comparative Public Management and Policy—The View from Singapore |
| Scott Fritzen, National University of Singapore |
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