Engelska Studiehandboken kurser
Business Adm and Social Science
IES321 15.0 ECTS credits
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General information about studying at Luleå university
TIMEPERIOD: III + IV
LANGUAGE: Swedish
EXAMINER
Lars Carlsson Univ lekt
PREREQUISITES
Basic course A, Advanced courses B and C. Even approved C thesis.
COURSE AIM
- To give an advanced knowledge in how theories are formed within political science, as well as the disciplins methods and application.
- The course also intends foremost to supply insight and knowledge on institutional policy analysis as well as the advantages and disadvantages that are associated with alternative means of application.
- To prepare the student for an eventual career in research.
CONTENTS
Course A: Institutional Policy Analysis
- The course treats different types of application within todays policy research. Special attention will be focused on the concept institution also how the concept interpreded within research disciplins.
- During the course certain alternative and complementing approaches, with special attention focused on so called network approaches, will be treated. The following approaches will be treated: The Advocacy Coalition Framework, The Impementation Structure Approach, Policy and Epistemic Community Approaches, The Institutional Analysis and Development Framework (IAD) and also Narrative Policy Analysis.
TEACHING
EXAMINATION
Grading system: Pass and Honours.
Rapports and seminars.
COURSE GRADE SCALE: U, G, VG
ITEMS/CREDITS
Seminar, item 2 1.5ECTS
Assignment report, item 2 6.0ECTS
Seminar, item 1 3.0ECTS
Assignment report, item 1 4.5ECTS
COURSE LITTERATURE
LITERATURE Moment 1
Almond, Gabriel and Stephen J. Genco, (1977) "Clouds, Clocks, and the Study of Politics, " World Politics, nr 29, s. 489-522.
Andersson Sten, (1979) Positivism kontra hermeneutik. Göteborg: Korpen
Chalmers Alan F., ( 1990) What is this thing called science? Bristol: Open University Press
Eriksson, Gunnar, (1991) Den faustiska människan. Stockholm: Natur och Kultur
F¿llesdal, Dagfinn, Lars Wall¿e och Jon Elster, (1995) Argumentationsteori, språk och vetenskapsfilosofi. Stockholm: Thales.
Hanson, Bertil, (1994) "Game Theory and the Search for Causation in Political Science, " paper, Statsvetenskapliga institutionen, Umeå Universitet.
Rorty, Richard, (1981) "Method, Social Science and Social Hope. " Canadian Journal of Philosophy, XI, nr. 4 (December 1981), s. 569-588.
LITERATURE Moment 2
Carlsson, Lars (1996) "Nonhierarchical Implementation Analysis. An alternative to the Methodological Mismatch in Policy Analysis." Journal of Theoretical Politics, Vol. 8 No. 4, pp. 527-546.
Carlsson, Lars, (1996) "Policy Networks as Collective Action," paper presenterat vid Statsvetenskapliga förbundets årsmöte i Lund, 13-15 oktober.
Fischer, Frank, (1993) "Reconstructing Policy Analysis: A Postpositivist Perspective." Policy Sciences, No. 25, pp. 333-339.
Hill, Michael (1993) The Policy Process: a reader. London: Harvester Wheatsheaf.
Högskolan i Luleå, avd. Statsvetenskap, (1996) "Policyanalys: en exempelsamling," kompendium.
Marin, Bernd and Mayntz, Renate, eds. (1991) Policy Networks. Empirical Evidence and Theoretical Considerations. Boulder Colorado: Westview Press, sid. 11Ð59.
Ostrom, Elinor, Roy Gardner, and James Walker (1994) Rules, Games, and Common-Pool Resources. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, pp. 1-50.
Premfors, Rune, (1992) Policyanalys. Lund: Studentlitteratur.
Schram, Sanford F., (1993) "Postmodern Policy Analysis: Discourse and Identity in Welfare Policy.". Policy Sciences, No 26:249-270.
Torgerson, Douglas, (1986) "Between Knowledge and Politics: Three Faces of Policy Analysis." Policy Sciences, No. 19, pp. 33-60.
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