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GPSP Lecture 1: Introduction
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The Governance and Politics ofSocial Problems
Course objectives
1. Differences and similarities political science and the study of governance and public
administration
2. Political systems and systems of government: in theory and in practice
a. How political systems and the governance handle challenges
3. Manners in which common challenges are faced
4. Analysis of current social problems
5. Influence of social problems on governance and politics
6. Normative dimension (right & wrong)
a. Opinions: what do people think is good governance?
Lectures
1. Introduction
2. Politics: comparing political systems
3. US elections: 5 November
4. Representation deficit?
5. Euroscepticism and political trust
a. National and supranational politics and policy
6. Populism, extremism and the mobilization of discontent
7. Inequality
a. Taxation, welfare state retrenchment and labour markets
8. Capitalism, crises, governance: why social problems demand government action
9. ‘The executive branch’: the mechanism of democratically legitimate governance
10. A confrontation with complexity
11. The governance of social problems, or the social problem of governance? Discretion and the
principal-agent impasse
12. What remains to be done? Good governance in an improvising society
13. Back to the future? Boutellier’s improvisation and the renewed relevance of Aristotle
14. Questions
Lecture 1: Introduction
- Democracy across the globe
- Liberal democracy and ‘Rechtsstaat’
- Polarization and fragmentation
- Political mobilization of discontent (left behind vs. squeezed middle)
- Structural social and economic changes
, - Mixed economy/welfare states
Europe today is a continent of democracies
Democratic backsliding
Younger generation does not support democracies as much anymore.
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