Insegnamento mutuato da: B001221 - ECONOMIA DELLE ISTITUZIONI Laurea Magistrale in SCIENZE DELLA POLITICA E DEI PROCESSI DECISIONALI
Lingua Insegnamento
Italiano
Contenuto del corso
Primo modulo: significato e ruolo delle istituzioni; ruolo dello Stato e del mercato;
teorie del settore pubblico e della burocrazia.
Secondo modulo: sistemi di votazioni; scelta della regola di voto; manipolazioni; concorrenza politica;
indici di potere nei sistemi a voto ponderato; applicazioni a organismi internazionali.
Terzo modulo: Gestione e valutazione dell’efficienza delle organizzazioni pubbliche.
Hillman, A. Public Finance and Public Policy 2nd ed, CUP 2009 cap 1, 2, 3, 6 e 10
Nurmi, H. Models of Political Economy, Routledge, 2006, cap: 6, 7, 8, 9, 10;
Taylor, A. Mathematics and Politics. Strategy voting Power and Proof, Springer; cap: 4 e 5
Per il terzo modulo dispense fornite a lezione
Obiettivi Formativi
Mettere lo studente in grado di comprendere, analizzare e valutare il funzionamento delle organizzazioni complesse
Prerequisiti
Il corso è self contained a questo fine la prima settimana di corso è dedicata al richiamo di concetti e metodi di analisi economica
Metodi Didattici
Principalmente lezioni (70%), tesine individuali (30%)
Altre Informazioni
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Modalità di verifica apprendimento
Discussione della tesina individuale
Programma del corso
Markets and Government: The Prima Facie Case for the Market ; The Rule of Law; Efficiency and Social Justice. Institution and Governance: The Political Principal–Agent Problem; Government Bureaucracy; Life without Markets and Private Property . Public goods: Types of Public Goods; Information and Public Goods; Cost-Benefit Analysis. Voting: The Median Voter and Majority Voting; Political Competition ; Voting on Income redistribution. The need for Government: Growth of Government and the Need for Government; Cooperation, Trust, and the Need for Government; Views on the Need for Government. Bargaining and coalitions: Classic solutions; Stability, core and bargaining sets; Values for n-person games; Applications to European institutions; Power and preferences. Decision making in committees : Basic concepts; Aggregating opinions; New systems, new winners. Theory of committee voting: Borda count: two ways out; Problems of Borda count; Condorcet’s paradox; Condorcet’s solutions; Problems of Condorcet’s intuition; Voting procedures; Positional methods and Condorcet criteria; Inconsistency of binary procedures; Non-monotonicity of multi-stage procedures; Choice procedures and performance criteria; Two social choice theorems; Voting as a game. Designing for elections and public goods provision: The majority rule; Majority and plurality; Single transferable vote; Quota and divisor methods; Proportionality of what? ; The general design problem; Optimizing the public goods provision;. What kind of government?: States as bandits; A just state; Redistribution and rent seeking; Suggested reading. Aspects of policy evaluation: Deciding the number of criteria; Majorities, positions, weights; Changes in alternative sets; Close and yet so far; One more criterion cannot do any harm, can it?; Forest and the trees; Voters are much the same as criteria. Political Power:. The Shapley-Shubik Index of Power; Calculations for the European Economic Community;. The Banzhaf Index of Power; Two Methods of Computing Banzhaf Power; The Power of the President;. The Chair’s Paradox. More on social choice : Social Welfare Functions; A Generalization of May’s Theorem; Arrow’s Impossibility Theorem; The Gibbard-Satterthwaite Theorem; Single Peakedness—Theorems of Black and Sen