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Leader: Professor Graeme Hodge
Offered:
City T2-58 2006 (On-campus)
Synopsis: This subject investigates privatisation as a family of policies and practices within the modern state and the crucial role played by regulation in governance. Firstly it uses an historical perspective to explore state-owned enterprise and its traditional governance and then more recent privatisation trends and regulatory phenomena. A range of theoretical underpinnings for privatisation and regulation are then explored. Components of privatisation analysed include enterprise sales, contracting-out public sector services, public-private partnerships and private sector development strategy.
Objectives: Upon completion of the unit, students will be able to: * Understand the changing role of the state * Define the privatisation family of policies and their place within state governance * Outline the task of regulating state-owned enterprise, including aspects of history, debates, trends and issues * Identify theories and political underpinnings relevant to privatization and associated regulatory arrangements * Analyze a range of privatisation modes including; contracting-out of government services, enterprise sales, public-private partnerships and private sector development strategies * Articulate contemporary debates on privatization and regulation and understand the crucial role played now by regulatory arrangements in the privatised state * Distinguish elements of accountability in the re-regulated state
Assessment: Research paper (3750 words): 50% Case study (3000 words): 40% Class participation: 10% (based on participation over the teaching period.)
Contact Hours: Students enrolled in the course will be provided with 24 contact hours of lectures/seminars per semester. Students will be expected to do reading set for class, and undertake additional research and reading as applicable to a 6 credit point unit.
Prerequisites: Any two of the prescribed core units in the Master of Regulatory Studies and the Graduate Diploma in Regulatory Studies, or subject to approval of the LLM course convenor.