(in Polish) Nowe trendy w administracji publicznej 2100-PP-M-D1NTAP

Class 1: The historical nature of administration, bureaucracy and public administration. The
rationale for efficient and effective administration - evolving expectations.
Classes 2 and 3: Changes in the form of the state and the development of administration.
Models of administration in the early modern and modern state. Objective determinants of
the growth of administration in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Class 4: Classical theories of administration and their evolution. Henri Fayol, Georg Jellinek
and Max Weber and their successors.
Class 5: Public choice theories and public administration and public policy. James M.
Buchanan, Gordon Tullock and Kenneth Arrow.
Class 6: Welfare state theories (Velferdsstaten). The welfare state and the development of
administrative functions. Welfare state practice and models. Alva and Gunnar Myrdal, Gøsta
Esping-Andersen, Harold Macmillan, Ludwig Erhard.
Class 7: Institutionalist and neo-institutionalist theory and public administration. James
March, Johan P. Olsen and James Q. Wilson.
Classes 8 and 9: Neoliberalism ideology and the state, administration and citizens. New
public management (New Public Management), essence and evolution. The enterprise as a
model for the functioning of public administration units. David E. Osborne, Ted Gaebler,
Christopher Hood, Brainard Guy Peters.
Class 10: Public entrepreneurship and the entrepreneurial state and the effectiveness of
public administration. The innovation state. M. Mazzucato, Bill Lazonick, Fred L. Block.
Class 11: The territorial division of the state and the criteria of efficiency and effectiveness of
public administration. Economies of scale and consolidation of administrative units. Sweden,
Denmark, Norway.
Class 12: Problems of budgetary and non-budgetary financing of public administration. E-
administration - opportunity or problem? Public administration in emergency and crisis
situations (pandemics, wars, demographic disasters, others).
Classes 13 and 14: Theories of New Public Governance in Europe. The subjective approach to
the citizen and the satisfaction of his/her needs as the basis of the axiology of public
administration. Patrick Dunleavy, Oliver E. Williamson, Elinor Ostrom.
Class 15: Perspectives on the development of theory and organisational and functional
concepts concerning public administration. Polish administrative thought and system
practice.