CODE 105033 ACADEMIC YEAR 2020/2021 CREDITS 6 cfu anno 1 AMMINISTRAZIONE E POLITICHE PUBBLICHE 8772 (LM-63) - GENOVA SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINARY SECTOR IUS/08 TEACHING LOCATION GENOVA SEMESTER 2° Semester TEACHING MATERIALS AULAWEB OVERVIEW The lectures deal with rules and procedures about emergency management by Public Administration, as well as with best performing models of organization, procedures and good practices for an effective emergency management AIMS AND CONTENT LEARNING OUTCOMES The lectures aim to: give knowledge of rules and procedures about emergency management by Government and Public Administration at both national and local levels; analyze the means Public Administration actually uses in emergency situations, paying particular attention to the present Coronavirus emergency; stress limitations and shortcoming of existing juridical and operational means; and define (by way of comparative references, too) best performing models of organization, procedures and good practices for an effective emergency management AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES AIMS The lectures aim to: Deepen the knowledge of rules and procedures about emergency management by Government and Public Administration at different territorial levels; Deepen the knowledge of juridical, technical and organizational means Public Administration actually uses in emergency situations; Identify virtues and vices of the methods Italian Public Administration implements, through references to both concrete historical experiences (e.g. Coronavirus emergency) and comparative examples; Define models of organization, procedures and good practices, suitable for an effective emergency management; Develop skills of complementing each other the juridical, politicological, and quantitative approach in the study of the items in question, in order to develop a good ability of critical and multidimensional analysis. LEARNING OUTCOMES (in more detail): After the lectures, the student should be able to: Know and use accurately the legal and politicological language related to the items in question; Complement each other the juridical, politicological, and quantitative approach in the study of the subjects debated by the lectures, in order to develop a good ability of critical and multidimensional analysis; Accurately identify the available means for Public Administration in emergency management; Retrace, explain and evaluate critically the real working of Public Administration in historically concrete emergency situations; Accurately identify the more suitable means to be used by Public Administration in a hypothetical need for emergency management; Express thoroughly knowledge, opinions, problems and proposals, related to the discipline, to both expert speakers and not; Possibly express reasoned and justified proposals of juridical and organizational reforms, in the light of both the knowledge and the comparative methodology he/she acquired. PREREQUISITES To deal effectively with the contents of the discipline, it's necessary to know the basic foundations of administrative law, public administration and statistics. It could so be useful to have already passed or to study simultaneously for exams concerning the above-mentioned items. TEACHING METHODS The course is 36 hours long and gives 6 CFU. Due to the evolution of the health situation, lectures will be given on-line, on the Teams platform, team Prof Aristide Canepa 2020/21 (code jtokuk3 ), channel Amministrazione Pubblica e Gestione delle Emergenze. Possible changes will be promptly communicated. Materials and possible recordings of the lectures will be accessible to the students through the AulaWeb page of the course, which is the official communication channel between professor and students. The professor will mainly give lectures, but teaching activities can also consist of the analysis of legislative, administrative and jurisprudence texts. Lectures will be given in Italian and can be complemented by slides. External lectures, speeches and congresses related to the discipline could be considered as part of the course. In this case, the professor will inform the students about them, during the lectures and through AulaWeb. SYLLABUS/CONTENT Different meanings and forms of “emergency” in constitutional and/or administrative law Rules and procedures provided for emergency situations by law The established allocation of administrative functions to different territorial levels of government and the possible changes provided by rules (and practices) about emergency management Emergency management and exceptions to standard procedures in law-making, decision-making, administrative and jurisdictional processes Emergency management and restrictions on personal rights, public freedoms and rule of law in wider terms Reenactment, exposition and analysis of the means Public Administration actually used in historically concrete emergency situations (e.g. Coronavirus emergency) and of the processes of juridical and organizational reform that possibly followed All the items of the syllabus are going to be debated also in a comparative (both synchronic and diachronic) perspective, in order to make easier a critical analysis and to better define wellperforming models of organization, procedures and good practices for an effective emergency management RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY A syllabus about the items to deal with in the course doesn’t exist. For such a reason, the professor will provide during the lectures and through Aulaweb the needed bibliographical references and papers (in foreign languages, too, according to students' linguistic skills). With regard to Coronavirus emergency, recommended readings will be mainly chosen among papers published in the following on-line reviews: - DPCE online, n. 2/2020, II Sezione monografica (at the URL: http://www.dpceonline.it/index.php/dpceonline/issue/view/43 ); e - Federalismi.it, section Osservatorio Emergenza Covid-19 (at the URL: https://www.federalismi.it/focus/index_focus.cfm?FOCUS_ID=112&focus=covid ) TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD ARISTIDE CANEPA Ricevimento: Prof. Canepa’s walk-in hours: every Wednesday, from 10.00 a.m. to 12.00 a.m., starting on Wednesday, August 19th, 2020. At the beginning and during the whole 2020/21 academic year, walk-in hours are going to be implemented at distance, through the TEAMS platform, on the team "Prof Aristide Canepa 2020/21" (password jtokuk3 ), channel Ricevimento Studenti prof Canepa. PLEASE NOTE that, from the third week of March 2021, prof. Canepa's walk-in hours (still on-line) are going to be moved on Tuesday afternoons, from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m.. Only when (and if) the evolution of the health situation will allow it, walk-in hours will be going to be implemented face-to-face, at the Department of Political Science (DISPO), P.le E. Brignole 3a canc., room 3/77, central tower, 16125 Genova. Moreover, prof. Canepa receives by appointment and can be contacted before and after the lectures as well as by e-mail (aristide.canepa@unige.it). Exam Board ARISTIDE CANEPA (President) FEDERICO DELFINO MARIA ANGELA ORLANDI MASSIMO RUARO LESSONS LESSONS START Lectures are scheduled in the second term, starting on Thursday, March 11th, 2021, according to the following scheduled time: on Thursdays, hh. 8-10 am; in Fridays, hh. 9-11 am. Due to the evolution of the health situation, lectures will be given on-line, on the Teams platform, team Prof Aristide Canepa 2020/21 (code jtokuk3 ), channel Amministrazione Pubblica e Gestione delle Emergenze. Possible changes will be promptly communicated. Materials and possible recordings of the lectures will be accessible to the students through the AulaWeb page of the course, which is the official communication channel between professor and students. Class schedule The timetable for this course is available here: Portale EasyAcademy EXAMS EXAM DESCRIPTION The exam will be oral and in Italian but, upon justified request in peculiar cases, it could be written. Students of Erasmus programme (or other similar programmes scheduling only a temporary stay) are allowed, on request, to sit the exam in other languages (English, French, Spanish and Portuguese are available). During the exam, at least three items related to the discipline will be debated, starting from more general concepts to reach then an higher degree of detail. In case of written exam, it will consist in three open questions at different degrees of detail. The examination board is appointed by the Department Council and, except in the case of hindrance, chaired by the professor in charge of the course. Possible changes following the evolution of the health situation (Coronavirus emergency) will be immediately communicated in the present form, through AulaWeb platform, as well as any other available mean. ASSESSMENT METHODS First of all, the student should demonstrate: the knowledge of the course topics, an accurate use of the language, a suitable order in the presentation of the subjects, competence in the technical language, juridical and politicological. A preferential evaluation will be conferred to the following skills: the ability to re-elaborate in a critical way the acquired information and the concerned topics; the accurate implementation of the comparative methodology; the ability to analyze critically constitutional (or constitutionally relevant) texts, documents and customs, as well as every other historical and factual element (political and party systems, political culture, etc.) significant in the real working of a constitutional system; the possible expression of personal considerations, duly reasoned and justified, according to the acquired data and (also comparative) methodologies. Exam schedule Data appello Orario Luogo Degree type Note 08/06/2021 10:00 GENOVA Orale 29/06/2021 10:00 GENOVA Orale 20/07/2021 10:00 GENOVA Orale 08/09/2021 10:00 GENOVA Orale