Showing 66 courses for the subject Public Policy
This course introduces Aotearoa New Zealand’s health policy and the challenges health systems face in health system and the challenges we face in seeking to meet population health needs equitably, efficiently, and sustainably, both now and into the f...
This course focuses on the values and ideologies that underpin social policy and public policy in New Zealand. The course will examine the economic, political, and institutional arrangements within New Zealand which impact upon policy development and...
Introduction to Public Policy
PUBL201
An introduction to the study of public policy and policy analysis, models of policymaking and the policy process and the contribution of economics and politics to the study of public policy.
Introduction to Public Economics
PUBL203
Analysis of the roles of government in a modern economy. Topics include contemporary market failures including imperfect competition, externalities, missing information, destructive strategic behaviour, and inefficient saving; decision-making in the ...
This course introduces students to systems thinking and how it can be used to understand health systems and approaches to change and improvement. Students will learn about the Aotearoa New Zealand health system and how it has changed over time. The r...
An introduction to the concepts, methods and theories of development policy. The course focuses upon the problems facing third world countries today arising from external influences, including globalisation. Consideration is given to the design and i...
Introduction to Public Economics
PUBL209
This course explores the roles of government, community and the private sector in achieving economic, social and environmental well-being. Incentives, behaviour and the design of policies are analysed for selected topics, including taxation, public e...
An introduction to key policy theories and methods underpinning problem formulation and policy design. Policy examples from New Zealand and overseas help students develop crucial skills for engaging with contemporary policy issues. The focus is on ga...
Public Management
PUBL211
Public management is concerned with implementation of public sector programmes and policies. It is distinct from public policy. This course will develop fundamental skills of relevance for managing departments, programmes and interfaces with politics...
Economic Policy
PUBL303
Economic policy addresses a broad range of factors: the role of the state; the interplay of market failure and government failure; and how policy instruments are used to affect outcomes. The course covers all of these and has a specific focus on taxa...
Cabinet Government
PUBL304
Cabinet government is where politics, policy and public management intersect. While there is a clear theoretical dividing line between these activities, the reality is more complex. This course examines Aotearoa New Zealand’s Westminster system of go...
Social enterprise is a global movement blending innovation, collaboration and enterprise for the public good. This course explores the theoretical and practical underpinnings of social enterprise as well as the various governance, business and non-go...
This course examines a wide range of environmental, biodiversity and sustainability challenges from policy and governance perspectives, with illustrations from New Zealand and overseas.
Public policy is not created in a vacuum: it needs to be proactive and reactive to cope with the complex environment in which it operates. This course explores governance can address complexity. Students extend their policy skills by learning how to ...
Policy makers and public managers must exercise critical thinking and good judgment every day. This course explains what critical thinking skills are, how they can be improved, and how to apply them to policy and management in both theory and practic...
Research Methodology A
FCOM401
This course examines a number of scientific methodologies and related research methods within the business context, with an emphasis on science-informed and evidence-based decision making. Methods are the means by which knowledge, predictions, or con...
Research Methodology B
FCOM421
This course examines interpretive and critical social science methodologies within the specific context of business disciplines. It introduces cultural aspects of conducting business research, including Mātauranga Māori.
Research Methods
FCOM427
An introduction to research methodology and methods that are common in business and government scholarship. We first cover philosophy of science and epistemology, then methods for reviewing literature, ollowed by research design, ethics and AI to sup...
Applied Research Internship
FCOM429
Applied research is a critical skill required in organisations. Through a research internship with an approved organisation this course allows students to experience applied research in an organisational context. The research problem is provided by t...
Research Project
FCOM430
This course is a supervised individual research project, supplemented by seminars on topics related to stages in the research process.
Managerial aspects and issues of digital government and public services and its external relationships, drawing on available theory, models, concepts, frameworks and strategies as well as on international and New Zealand experience.
Government and Governing
GOVT501
Examines government and governing, the ethical and practical foundations of the institutions and processes that make up a polity.
Research Paper in Public Policy
PUBL501
Students will conduct a substantial research project under supervision.
Theories, principles, models and strategies for ICT-enabled public sector reforms, drawing on international and New Zealand experience.
Policymaking systems and structures, policy analysis processes including appropriate modes of citizen engagement, theories underpinning policy interventions and their design, implementation and evaluation.
Research Paper in Public Policy
PUBL502
Students will conduct a substantial research project under supervision.
Challenges, conditions and requirements for managing the use of ICTs to achieve effective forms of public engagement, drawing on New Zealand and international experience.
Policy and Management Practice
GOVT503
This course examines the interactions and interdependencies in the work that policy advisors and policy managers and implementers undertake in the pursuit of policy objectives.
The application of the methods of statistical analysis to problems, challenges, and decisions related to public policy, emphasising the intuition of applied statistical analysis, rather than the mathematics and mechanics of the methods.
Managing for Results
GOVT511
Theory and practice in the strategic management of public resources to achieve desired government outcomes considering opportunities and constraints, focusing on outcomes-based approaches, strategic planning and logic modelling, performance strategie...
Managing Public Resources
GOVT512
Designed for managers without specialist knowledge or training who need to understand the full spectrum of managing financial and organisational resources, covering planning and budgeting, revenue, expense asset and liability management, and reportin...
Organisational behaviour and managing people working in large and small organisations (public, community and indigenous) involved in public governance, highlighting recruitment, employment, development and performance, including strategic people mana...
Leadership is a multifaceted concept. Modules will explore a range of themes including leading across contexts, followership and leading change. Students will develop their own unique leadership framework based on their own experiences, the latest th...
The implementation and review phases of the strategic management cycle are essential to effective government policy. This course focuses on trends and developments in implementation and service delivery in liberal democracies such as Aotearoa/New Zea...
Comparative Public Management
GOVT518
Comparative public management and public policy, with emphasis on contemporary developments in Asia-Pacific and beyond, including how challenges of public management and policy are addressed in other countries, theoretical approaches to assist in the...
The course examines how governments make a difference to development in their policies and their implementation. It looks at different approaches to the theory of state-led development and alternative models of the relationship between public institu...
Economics and Policy
GOVT521
Economic theories, principles and ideas and their application to complex strategic and operational policy issues, covering a diversity of approaches within economics including behavioral and institutional economics tools that can be used to assess po...
Policy Analysis and Advising
GOVT522
Knowledge, competencies and behaviours required to craft quality policy analysis and advice across various policy domains, reflecting a range of values, examining policy systems and processes, including public participation, policy instruments, imple...
Policy Methods
GOVT523
Policy principles and compatible policy methods, suitable for specific types of policy challenges, based on theoretical frameworks for science, knowledge systems (with various types of evidence and scientific uncertainties) and values in policy decis...
Policy Workshop
GOVT524
This course consolidates and further develops policy analytic methods and practices in an extended application to a current policy challenge. Considers the roles, skills and competencies of policy practitioners operating in contexts that can be compl...
Policy Capstone
GOVT525
Consolidates and further develops policy analytic methods and practices in an extended application to a current policy challenge, with attention to the roles, skills and competencies of practitioners operating in contexts that can be complex, uncerta...
Local Government
GOVT531
This course explores local government policy and management issues, drawing on both New Zealand and international experience. Emphasis is given to the functions, structures, and financing arrangements of local governments, strategic planning practice...
Monitoring and Evaluation
GOVT533
This course focuses on monitoring and evaluation in public management and public policy and how high-quality monitoring and evaluation can improve policy and delivery, decision-making and the efficiency and effectiveness of resource allocation. The c...
Public Integrity
GOVT534
This course examines integrity and ethics in the public sector from an individual, organisational and systemic viewpoint. It will investigate responsible leadership; identify signs of ethical collapse, demonstrate the concept of Integrity Management ...
Public spending through procurement and contracting is shaping numerous policy agendas including sustainability, labour conditions, SMEs, and the indigenous economy. This course focuses on the ideas institutions and instruments underpinning procureme...
Regulatory Policy
GOVT536
Contemporary theory and practice in regulatory policy, the roles of government and others in designing policies to secure enhanced economic, social, environmental and cultural outcomes, and effective implementation of regulatory policy.
Social Policy
GOVT538
An examination of various aspects of social policy with particular attention to the analysis of social security, poverty, social exclusion, social development, demographic trends, the operation of labour markets and superannuation.
This course examines the contribution of political, social and moral philosophy to an understanding of the role of the state, and some of the issues surrounding the application of social science theories and methodologies to the conduct of policy ana...
Conceptual approaches to sustainability and resilience, and how they can be operationalised across scales of societal and corporate governance. Operationalisation of innovative concepts such as circular bio-economy and anticipatory governance for vul...
This course covers recent developments in the economics of wellbeing and explores how insights from wellbeing economics can be applied in a public policy context. It focuses on the practical application of wellbeing measures to inform decision-making...
This course examines good governance and stewardship for Crown entities in theory and practice. Attention is given to the roles of monitors in governance systems, their relationships with Ministers and Boards, with attention to different forms and fu...
This course develops capabilities across a range of practices for monitoring Crown entity performance. Considers monitoring frameworks, plans, indicator development and measurement, and the communication of performance assessments with attention to c...
This course examines contemporary trends in public management and their implications for regulatory practice now and in the future. In line with those trends, it focuses on the implementation and delivery of regulation, especially if and how manageme...
Special Topic
GOVT554
Directed Individual Study
GOVT556
To be determined for each individual student.
Directed Individual Study
GOVT557
To be determined for each individual student.
Directed Individual Study
GOVT558
To be determined for each individual student.
Directed Individual Study
GOVT559
To be determined for each individual student.
Applications of research methods and evidence in public management, covering research objectives, ethics, choosing appropriate methods creating and using case studies and program evaluation as an evidence-base for public management decisions, and und...
Research Project
GOVT562
Supervised independent research or practice-oriented investigation leading to a report addressing specific objectives in public management or public policy.
This course serves as an integrative capstone, which draws together lessons from required MPM courses and enables students to explore these within their own future career development. The course highlights key perspectives around the spirit of public...
Internship
GOVT569
A structured, academically-assessed placement with a department or agency (public or community sector) to achieve particular educational objectives, based on 'learning through experience'.
Thesis
PUBL591
MA thesis in Public Policy.
Thesis
FCOM592
Thesis in Governing for the Future.
Dissertation
FCOM593
60 point dissertation in Governing for the Future.
Public Policy for PhD
PUBL690
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