SemesterSpring Semester, 2021
DepartmentGraduate Institute of Labor Research MA Program, First Year Graduate Institute of Labor Research MA Program, Second Year
Course NameGlobalization and Public Policy
Instructor
Credit3.0
Course TypeElective
Prerequisite
Course Objective
Course Description
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週次



Week



課程主題



Topic



課程內容與指定閱讀



Content and Reading Assignment



教學活動與作業



Teaching Activities and Homework



學習投入時間Student workload expectation



課堂講授 In-class Hours



課程前後



Outside- of-class Hours



 


       

 



1



Introduction; Conceptual ground I: Public Policy Process and institutions



*Howlett and Ramesh 2009, ch.3; Lukes 1974; Hill 1997, chs 2,4



Lecture and discussion



3



7



2



Conceptual ground II: Globalization and International Relations



*Scholte 2005, chs 1,2,4; Pease chs. 2,3,4; Reinicke 1998, ch.2



Lecture and discussion



3



7



3



Conceptual ground III: Intl Organizations and Global Governance



*Weiss and Wilkinson 2014 chs 1,2,3,4,15; Held and McGrew 2002 chs 1,3



Lecture, reading presentations and discussion



3



7



4



Global/Transnational Government Networks



 *Slaughter 2004a; 2004b ch1; Weiss and Wilkinson 2014 chs 29,33



Lecture, reading presentations and discussion



3



7



 


       

 



5



Transnational Advocacy Networks, Coalitions and Global Social Movements



*Keck and Sikkink 1998 ch.1; O’Brien et al 2000 ch.1; Weiss and Wilkinson 2014 chs 23,35,39



Lecture, reading presentations and discussion



3



7



6



Globalization and Public Sector Reform



*Kamarck 2000; Lee and Strang 2008; Pal and Ireland 2009



Lecture, reading presentations and discussion



3



7



9


Mid-term Review      

 



7



Policy Diffusion, Transfer and Networks



*Dolowitz and Marsh 2000; Stone 1999; Stone 2008



Lecture, reading presentations and discussion



3



7



8



Transnational Policy Learning



*Wu 2005; Wu 2009/10; Weiss and Wilkinson 2014 chs 46,47,49,50



Lecture, reading presentations and discussion



3



7



10



Corporate and Private Organization Governance



* Gourevitch 2003; Ronit and Schneider 2000; Weiss and Wilkinson 2014 chs 22,25,27,28



Lecture, reading presentations and discussion



3



7



11



Epistemic Communities, Think Tanks and Intl Policy transfers



*Haas 1992; Stone 2005; Parmar 2002; Weiss and Wilkinson 2014 ch 26



Lecture, reading presentations and discussion



3



7



12-14



Sub-states, cities in global affairs



* Scholte 2005; Hocking 1993 chs.2-3; Hobbs 1994; Jain 2005, chs.1,3,4,5



Lecture, reading presentations and discussion



3



7



15



Student project Presentations I



Student project Presentations I



Student project Presentations I



3



12



16



Student project Presentations II



Student project Presentations II



Student project Presentations II



3



12



17



Student project Presentations III



Student project Presentations III



Student project Presentations III



3



12



18



Student project Presentations IV



Student project Presentations IV



Student project Presentations IV



3



12




The 13th week is University Day: No class


Teaching Methods
Teaching Assistant

TBA


Requirement/Grading

1.     In-class participations: 25%



2.     2 oral presentations and 2 summary/critical reports: 25% (total)(MA students: one each)



3.     Final paper (written paper15-20 pages 40%+outline presentation 10%): 50% (total)


Textbook & Reference

-M. Howlett and M. Ramesh 2003/2009 Studying Public Policy (Oxford UP)



-S. Lukes 1974 Power: A Radical View (Macmillan)



-M. Hill 1997 The Policy Process in the Modern State (Prentice Hall)



-K.S. Pease 2010 International Organizations: Perspectives on Governance in the Twenty-First Century. 4th ed. (New York: Longman)



-T.G. Weiss and R. Wilkinson eds. 2014 International Organization and Global Governance. (Routledge)



-D. Stone, 2005“Knowledge Networks and Global Policy” in D. Stone and S. Maxwell eds. Global Knowledge Networks and International Development (Routledge)



-Jan Aart Scholte 2005 Globalization: A Critical Introduction (Palgrave)



-David Held and A. McGrew eds. 2002 Governing Globalization, chs. 1, 3



-Wolfgang H. Reinicke 1998 Global Public Policy: Governing without Government? (Brookings Institution Press)



- Anne-Marie Slaughter 2004a “Disaggregated Sovereignty: Towards the Public Accountability of Global Government Network,” Government and Opposition 39: 159-190



- Anne-Marie Slaughter 2004b, A New World Order (Princeton UP, 2004), ch.1



- Margaret E. Keck and Kathryn Sikkink 1998 Activists beyond Borders: Advocacy Networks in International Politics. (Cornell University Press)



- Robert O’Brien et al 2000 Contesting Global Governance (Cambridge UP), ch.1 (e-book)



-Elaine Ciulla Kamarck 2000“Globalization and Public Administration Reform” in Joseph S. Nye Jr. and John D. Donahue eds. Governance in a Globalizing World. (Washington DC: Brookings Institution Press), pp.229-52



-Chang Kil Lee and David Strang, 2008“The International Diffusion of Public Sector Downsizing: Network Emulation and Theory-Driven Learning” in Beth A. Simmons et al eds. The Global Diffusion of Markets and Democracy. (Cambridge University Press), ch.4. (e-book)



-Peter Gourevitch, 2003 “Corporate Governance: Global Markets, National Politics” in Miles Kahler and David Lake eds. Governance in a Global Economy. (Princeton University Press).



-D. Dolowitz and David Marsh 2000, “Learning from Abroad: the Role of Policy Transfer in Contemporary Policy-Making,” Governance, 13: 5-24



-Diane Stone, 1999 “Learning Lessons and Transferring Policy Across Time, Space and Disciplines,” Politics, 19: 51-59.



-Leslie A. Pal, & D. Ireland 2009. “The Public Sector Reform Movement: Mapping the Global Policy Network.” International Journal of Public Administration 32(8), 621-657.



-Diane Stone 2008 “Global Public Policy, Transnational Policy Communities, and Their Networks.” Policy Studies Journal, 36(1), 19-38.



-Der-yuan Wu, 2005 “Canada and the Global Diffusion of `One China’” in Andre Lecours ed. New Institutionalism: Theory and Analysis. (University of Toronto Press)



-Der-yuan Wu, 2009/2010 “Bridging `True North’ and `Forbidden’ Nations: Taiwan Agency in Canada’s China Policy” Canadian International Council (CIC) China Paper, No.9 (or in P. Potter ed. Issues in Canada-China Relations (CIC), ch .4



-Karsten Ronit and Volker Schneider 2000“Global Governance through Private Organizations” Governance 12 (3): 243-66.



-Peter Haas 1992 “Introduction: Epistemic Communities and International Policy Coordination,” International Organization 46: 1 (Winter): 1-35



-I. Parmar, 2002“American Foundations and the Development of International Knowledge Networks” Global Networks 2 (1): 13-30



-Jan Aart Scholte 2005“Globalization and Governance: From Statism to Polycentrism” in Globalization: A Critical Introduction. (Palgrave 2005)



-Brian Hocking, 1993 Localizing foreign policy : non-central governments and multilayered diplomacy (St Martin’s Press)



-Purnendra Jain, 2005 Japan's subnational governments in international affairs (Routledge 2005)



-Heidi H. Hobbs, 1994 City hall goes abroad : the foreign policy of local politics (Sage)


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