Admission requirements
Specialisation course for students of the February 2020 intake of the master Public Administration, specialisation Economics and Governance.
Description
As a result of governance reforms and what some call the ‘rise of the regulatory state’, regulation has become one of the core interest areas in governance studies. This course covers some of the key discussions related to regulatory policy. Our emphasis lies on different types of regulatory instruments – self-regulation, market mechanisms and state control – and on effective enforcement of regulation. Furthermore, regulators function increasingly in a multi-level context, required to accommodate demands not only on the European but also global level. In this course, we will look at the theoretical arguments related to these issues as well as real-life case studies and government responses.
Course objectives
Understanding different regulatory instruments with their theoretical and practical assumptions
Knowledge and understanding the key issues and current trends in regulatory policy and politics
Ability to analyse real life problems in various policy sectors from the perspective of regulatory theory
Timetable
On the right side of programme front page of the E-guide you will find links to the website and timetables, uSis and Brightspace.
Mode of instruction
Fully online. Online seminars (mostly pre-recorded; one ‘live’ online session (in small groups or individual) for feedback in preparation of final assignment (70%) – i.e. essay clinic session).
Seminars: 7 week of 2 hours (=14 hours) – exclusively online teaching
Self-study and assignments (including essay): 126 hours
Assessment method
- Case portfolio assignments (2 x 10%)
- Essay Plan (10%)
- Essay (70%)
Essay (3500 words) dealing with the ‘politics of risk regulation’ – students will be able to choose a risk (from a pre-set list of real-life risks) and apply course theories and key concepts to analyse the risk regulation regime. The students should answer four broad questions:
1. How is the risk defined and assessed?
2. Who regulates the risk?
3. How is the risk regulated?
4. What are the politics of regulation?
Students are required to hand in an elaborated essay outline (10%) on which they receive feedback, prior to completing the final assignment.
Grades for the case portfolio assignments and the essay plan can be compensated. Partial grades from the previous year remain valid.
From 2020-2021 onwards, partial grades will not remain valid after the exam and the resit of the course.
Reading list
The main course book for this course is:
Lodge, M. & Wegrich, K. (2012) Managing regulation: regulatory analysis, politics and policy. Basington: Palgrave Macmillan. Students should purchase this book.
Additionally, main readings are prescribed from the following regulation handbooks. These are available in digital version from the library so you do not need to purchase these.
Baldwin, R., Cave, M. & M. Lodge. Understanding Regulation: Theory, Strategy and Practice. Oxford University Press.
Baldwin, R., Cave, M. & M. Lodge (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Regulation (2012). Oxford University Press.
Registration
Register for every course and workgroup via uSis. Some courses and workgroups have a limited number of participants, so register on time (before the course starts).
In uSis you can access your personal schedule and view your results. Registration in uSis is possible from four weeks before the start of the course.
From the academic year 2020-2021 Leiden University uses Brightspace as its online learning management system. After enrollment for the course in uSis you will be automatically enrolled in the Brightspace environment of this course.