September 26 Global Governance: Traditional and Emerging Approaches and Organizations II - Institutions: Shaping the Rules of the Economic Game October 3 Overview/Rule of Law: Rights, Obligations and Enforcement October 10 Fall Recess Holiday (No Class) October 17 Property Rights: Public Goods, Investment and Innovation III. Governance Reform: Structures, Processes, and Functions October 24 Overview and The Administrative/Fiscal Framework October 31 The Civil Service November 7 Decentralization, Intergovernmental Relations and Local Governance IV. Governance Reform: The Role of Nongovernmental Actors November 14 Public-Private Partnerships November 21 Civic Engagement, Civil Society and Social Accountability V. Synthesis and Wrap-up: Pragmatic Reform of Institutions and Governance November 28 Class Presentations I December 5 Class Presentations II December 12 Class Presentations III December 13 Open Discussion: Reimagining Institutional and Governance Reform (Note: December 13th is a Tuesday but classes run on Monday schedule) December 19 FINAL PROJECT/PAPER DUE December 19th by 12 noon EXEC-GP 2201 John Gershman Fall 2016 Paul Smoke Institutions, Governance and Public Sector Reform Outline and Reading List I. Historical Overview: An Institutional Perspective on Public Sector Reform (Sept. 12-26)
Jeff. "The Pitfalls of Water Privatization: Failure and Reform in Malaysia." World Development. Vol. 40 (2012), pp. 2552-2563. *Adler, David. "The War for Mexico's Water." Foreign Policy, July 31, 2015. C. Long. "New York City's Public Private Partnerships." Reuters MuniLand blog, May 24, 2012. M. Porter. Why Business Can be Good at Solving Social Problems. TED Talk, June 2013. Supplementary Readings Roland, Gerard. Privatization: Successes and Failures. (New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 2008). *Clifton, Judith, Francisco Comín, Daniel Díaz Fuentes. "Privatizing Public Enterprises in the European Union 1960–2002: Ideological, Pragmatic, Inevitable?" Journal of European Public Policy. Vol. 13 (2006), pp. 736-756. *van den Hurk, Martijn, Lena Brogaard, Veiko Lember, Ole Helby Petersen and Petr Witz. "National Varieties of Public–Private Partnerships (PPPs): A Comparative Analysis of Units in 19 European Countries," Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis, Vol. 18, No. 1 (2016). *Kosar, Kevin. Privatization and the Federal Government. (Washington, DC: Congressional Research Service, 2006). *Gerber, Elizabeth, et. al. Privatization: Issues in State and Local Service Provision. (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Center for Local, State and Urban Policy, 2004). *Parker, David and Colin Kirkpatrick. "Privatization in Developing Countries: A Review of the Evidence and the Policy Lessons." Journal of Development Studies, Vol. 41 (2005), pp. OECD. Public-Private Partnerships: In Pursuit of Risk Sharing and Value for Money, (Paris: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, 2008). *Price Waterhouse Coopers. Public-Private Partnerships: The US Perspective. (Washington, DC: Price Waterhouse Coopers, 2012). *Runde, Daniel and Amasia Zargarian. The Future of Public Private Partnerships: A Powerful Instrument for Global Development. (Washington, DC: Center for Global Development, 2013). *Zyck, Steven and Randolph Kent. Humanitarian Crises, Emergency Preparedness and Response: The Role of Business and the Private Sector. (London: ODI, 2014).