Module POL2078 for 2016/7
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Undergraduate Module Descriptor
POL2078: Governing the Public Sector: Bureaucratic Power and Politics
This module descriptor refers to the 2016/7 academic year.
Module Content
Syllabus Plan
While the module’s precise content may vary from year to year, this plan is indicative of the topics to be covered by the module. More details will be given and the plan finalised in the module outline.
- Modern Executive Government and the Bureaucracy: The Fundamentals
- Why Bureaucratic Structure Matters
- Bureaucratic Power: Influence, Reputation, and Neutrality
- Bureaucratic Motivations and Public Policy: Knights and Knaves
- Bureaucratic Turfs: Co-ordination, Competition and Turf ‘Wars’
- Inside Bureaucracies I: Role and Influence of Street- and Mid-Level Bureaucrats
- Inside Bureaucracies II: Leaders, Influence and Confines on Leadership
- Civil Servants, Elected Representatives and Public Service Bargains
- Representative Bureaucracy
- Oversight and Accountability
Learning and Teaching
This table provides an overview of how your hours of study for this module are allocated:
Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities | Guided independent study | Placement / study abroad |
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22 | 128 | 0 |
...and this table provides a more detailed breakdown of the hours allocated to various study activities:
Category | Hours of study time | Description |
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Scheduled Learning and Teaching activity | 22 | 11 x weekly 2hr sessions with a mix of formal lecture, student-led seminar, collective discussion and presentations |
Guided Independent Study | 60 | Reading and preparation of assigned readings for seminars |
Guided independent study | 58 | The research, preparation and completion of essay plans and essays |
Guided independent study | 10 | Research and preparation for the group presentation |
Online Resources
This module has online resources available via ELE (the Exeter Learning Environment).
Indicative web based resources e.g. online learning:
A number of articles, reports or book chapters will be available for every topic on the module website. These will be supplemented with empirical materials from government documents, as appropriate etc.
ELE – http://vle.exeter.ac.uk/