Public Administration 2102-L-D2ADPU

Class 1: Basic concepts of public administration
1.The concept of public administration.
2.Division of public administration.
3.Decentralization and deconcentration of public administration.
4. Politics and administration
5. Administration and pressure groups.
6. Administration and political parties.
Classes 2 Types and models of administration.
1. Origin and types of administration: state and government administration
and local government.
2. Administration models.
3. Features of public administration.
4. Prerequisites for efficient administration.
Class 3: Principles of organization and operation of public administration
1. The nature of public administration activities.
2. Principles of operation of public administration.
3. Language of administration.
Classes 4. Decision-making process in public administration.
1. Decision as a rational action of public administration.
2. Types and models of decisions.
3. System of goals and means in the decision-making process.
Class 5: Public administration operating procedures
1. Administrative acts.
2. Decisions and resolutions.
3. Authoritative and non-authoritative actions.
Class 6: Good governance and modernization of public administration
1. The concept and essence of good governance.
2. Principles of good administration.
3. The right to good administration.
4. Directions of modernization of public administration
Class 7: Territorial division of the country.
1. The concept and types of territorial division.
2. Shaping the territorial division.
3. Factors shaping territorial division.
4. Basic division.
5. Auxiliary division.
6. Special division.
Class 8: Control in public administration
1. The concept of public administration control.
2. Control tasks.
3. Types and features of control.
4. Intra-administrative control.
5. Extra-administrative control.
Class 9: Supervision in public administration
1. The concept of public administration supervision.
2. Supervisory tasks.
3. Types and features of supervision.
Class 10: Personnel in public administration
1. Government administration employees.
2. Local government employees.
Class 11 Government administration in the voivodeship
1. The voivode and his political position.
2. Combined provincial administration.
3. Local bodies of non-united administration.
Class 12 Pathologies of public administration
1. The concept of pathology.
2. Pathological behavior in administration.
3. Social capital and public trust.
4. Pathology in administration and public trust.
5. Partisanship, conflict of interest, mobbing, letaprivation and others.
Class 13 Electronic public administration
1. The concept and essence of the information society
2. Legal conditions for the digitization of public administration
3. Lisbon Strategy,
4. The concept and models of e-government.
Class 14 Administration and citizen
1. The position of the citizen as a creator and recipient of organizational and functional changes.
2. Public administration as an intelligent organization.
3. Citizen's right to good administration.
4. Citizen's right to public information

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Term 2024L:

Prerequisites (description)

The aim of the classes is to acquire knowledge of basic concepts, theories and institutions, processes and mechanisms characteristic of public administration, with particular emphasis on the solutions adopted in Poland. The expected skills include the ability to practically use the acquired theoretical knowledge as an analyst or participant in public administration processes The expected competences include the ability to work independently based on information obtained during classes, sources of law and literature.

Course coordinators

Term 2023L:

Marta Balcerek-Kosiarz
Grzegorz Rydlewski

Term 2024L:

Andżelika Mirska
Grzegorz Rydlewski

Type of course

obligatory courses

Mode

Classroom

Learning outcomes

KNOWLEDGE

After completing the classes, the student knows and understands the essence and mission of public administration (K_W01).

The graduate knows the structure of public administration in Poland and understands the phenomena related to its functioning. Demonstrates the ability to identify basic models and directions of changes in public administration (K_W04).

SKILLS

After completing the classes, the student is able to analyze axiological, normative, organizational, procedural and personnel issues related to the administration system in Poland. Notices regularities and dependencies in the processes carried out by entities that make up the administration system in Poland (K_U01).

COMPETENCES

After completing the classes, the student is ready for professional contact with public administration entities and has basic preparation for working in public administration structures (K_K01).

Assessment criteria

Written examination in the form of a test.
Two absences are allowed during classes per semester.

Practical placement

Bibliography

Basic literature
1. Administracja publiczna. Zarys wykładu, pod red. A. Pawłowska, K. Radzik-Maruszak, J. Itrich-Drabarek, Warszawa 2023.
2. Administracja i polityka. Administracja publiczna w procesie przemian pod red. A Ferensa i Iwony Macek, Wrocław 2002.
3. Administracja publiczna, pod red. J. Hausnera, Warszawa 2005.
4. Administracja publiczna w procesie dostosowania państwa do UE, pod red. T. Mołdawy, K. A. Wojtaszczyka, M. Małeckiego, Warszawa 2003.
5. R. Balicki, B. Banaszak, A. Błaś, Ustrój administracji publicznej. Warszawa 2000.
6. A. Błaś, J. Boć, J. Jeżewski: Administracja publiczna, Kolonia Limited 2003.

Additional literature
1. J. Borkowski, Jednostka a administracja publiczna po reformie ustrojowej. Warszawa 2001.
2. H. Izdebski, M. Kulesza, Administracja publiczna, Warszawa 2004.
3. J. Jagielski, Kontrola administracji publicznej, Warszawa 2007.
4. Z. Leoński, Nauka administracji, Wyd. 4, Warszawa 2002.
5. G. Rydlewski, Polityka i administracja w rządach państw członkowskich Unii Europejskiej, Warszawa 2006.
6. W. Wytrążek, Sprawność działania administracji publicznej w Polsce w warunkach decentralizacji, Lublin 2006.
7. E. Zieliński, Administracja rządowa w Polsce, Warszawa 2001.
8. E. Zieliński, Samorząd terytorialny w Polsce, Warszawa 2004.
9.J. Szreniawski: Europejski Kodeks Dobrej Administracji a zasady ogólne Kodeksu Postępowania Administracyjnego, w: Profesjonalizm w administracji publicznej, Białystok 2004, ss. 86-95.
10. J. Itrich-Drabarek, Encyklopedia administracji publicznej, Warszawa 2018.
11. J.Itrich-Drabarek, Jakość i przejrzystość administracji a prawo dostępu obywateli do informacji, "Prace i materiały Instytutu Studiów Międzynarodowych SGH"

Notes

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