Master's Program "Public Policy and Governance"

General training cycle

  • Business English
  • Research Methods for Public Governance
    • Methods for Public Governance
    • Research methodology
  • Law to Governance
    • The Constitution and Institutional Organization of the State and Society
    • Rule of Law
    • Rulemaking and enforcement
  • Democratic Governance
    • Philosophy and history of democratic governance
    • Economy for governance
    • Public finance and budgeting
    • Digital Democracy and E-Governance
  • Evidence-based Policy-making
    • Policy Process and Procedures
    • Policy Analysis
  • Leadership in Governance
    • Professional Development Management and HRM
    • Preventing corruption in governance
  • Sustainable Development Policy
    • Policy-making in the EU and European integration of Ukraine
    • Regional and local development
    • Service state and standards of relations of institutions with individuals
  • Strategic Public Management
    • Change management
    • Strategic management
  • Practice

 

Selective Courses
Disciplines of professional and practical training

  • Analysis and evaluation of public policy
    • Stakeholder analysis procedures and policymaking environment
    • Economic and political aspects of policy analysis
    • Quantitative and qualitative methods of policy analysis
    • Comparative analysis of policy-making procedures in the EU, US / Canada and Ukraine
    • Interaction of the state, business and civil society in the process of analysis and evaluation of public policy
    • Executive audit, monitoring and evaluation of policies
    • Socio-psychological and ethical aspects of policy analysis and evaluation
    • Preparation and presentation of policy analysis and evaluation results
  • Multilevel governance
    • Cohesion policy and multi-level governance
    • Institutional interaction and multi-level initiatives
    • Strategies, policies, programs and projects in multi-level governance
    • Strategic Solutions and Multilevel Governance Tools
    • Network structures in governance
    • Digital multilevel governance
    • Monitoring and evaluation in multi-level governance
  • Human capital and social and humanitarian policy
    • Human development and personnel management
    • Social organization of society and social policy
    • Social security and social risks, corporate social responsibility
    • Public-private partnership and social dialogue
    • Development of intellectual capital and formation of a single humanitarian space
    • Ethno-national development policy and state-confessional relations
  • Regional, local development and city management
  • Regional development policy
    • Territorial organization of power in Ukraine and state regional policy
    • Mechanisms and instruments of regional development policy
    • Strategic planning for regional development
  • Local government and community development policy
    • Theoretical and legal principles of functioning and development of the system of local self-government
    • Mechanisms for exercising the right to local self-government and decentralization
    • Local elections and office in local government
  • City management
    • Urban development and urban management strategies
    • Stimulating economic growth and financial mechanisms of city development
    • Competitiveness, managing social processes in the city and branding the city
  • Digital Governance and Information and Communication
    • E-Government Architecture and IT Infrastructure
    • Industry e-government
    • Reengineering of administrative processes in public authorities
    • Electronic interaction of authorities: electronic institution, electronic services
    • Information law and information and communication activities
    • Strategic Communications and Communication Technologies
    • Crisis communications and information wars
    • Business Ukrainian in professional activity

 

Free choice courses for students*

The total volume of elective components – 12 credits (360 hours)

* Based on NaUKMA's fundamental concept of free creative learning, within this cycle, the student has the right to choose any discipline in any educational program.

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