SUMMARY LECTURES PUBLIC
GOVERNANCE
Inhoudsopgave
Lecture 1: Public governance and sustainability.....................................................................................5
1. Setting the stage.............................................................................................................................5
Governance definitions...................................................................................................................5
2. Sustainability & SDG’s.....................................................................................................................7
2.1 The ultimate definition of sustainable development................................................................7
2.2 A quick history..........................................................................................................................7
2.3 From Global to local – RIO 1992...............................................................................................7
2.4 Local agenda 21 in practice.......................................................................................................8
2.5 Sustainability as a concept........................................................................................................8
2.6 Increasing facts & figures regarding S&SD................................................................................9
2.7 Time for the Millennium Goals...............................................................................................10
2.8 Are we there yet? 2023-report...............................................................................................12
2.9 Working or not?......................................................................................................................13
2.10 SDG’s & The role of local government..................................................................................14
2.11 Connecting SD-agenda’s.......................................................................................................14
2.12 THE RISE OF GLOBAL URBAN NETWORKS AROUND SUSTAINABILITY...................................15
2.13 Interim result: DYNAMICS OF RESCALING.............................................................................15
3. Guest Lecture Tinne Van Der Straeten, Belgian minister of energy..............................................16
Lecture 2: European Green Deal – Claire dupont.................................................................................16
1. Scale & scope of the climate challenge.........................................................................................17
2. Historical development of eu climate mitigation policy...............................................................18
2.1 EU competence.......................................................................................................................18
2.2 International and EU climate interactions..............................................................................18
2.3 EU policy deverlopments........................................................................................................19
3. The european green deal..............................................................................................................20
Origins & inspiration.....................................................................................................................21
Implementing the EGD (European Green Deal)............................................................................23
Fit for 55.......................................................................................................................................24
REPowerEU...................................................................................................................................24
4. Outlook.........................................................................................................................................26
1
, To conclude......................................................................................................................................28
Lecture 3: Complex world of governance.............................................................................................29
1. Recap Tinne Van der straeten.......................................................................................................29
2.1. More insight on the energy crisis...........................................................................................30
2.2. Link to course & theory..........................................................................................................31
2. Complex world of governance......................................................................................................33
EX. inclusive growth......................................................................................................................33
Center of government (FPS Chancellery of the prime minister)...................................................33
in historical perspective (Osborne, 2006).....................................................................................34
A fourth perspective? the NSOB model........................................................................................35
critical reflections.........................................................................................................................38
Case: discrimination.....................................................................................................................38
Critical reflections.........................................................................................................................39
Case: the integration sector..........................................................................................................39
Frederickson concludes................................................................................................................39
MANY ‘GOVERNANCE’ TEXTS: TOO GENERAL ABOUT ‘THE’ GOVERNMENT.................................40
The complex reality of governance...............................................................................................40
Link to required readings – Head..................................................................................................40
Type of wicked problem (Head)....................................................................................................41
The complex reality of governance...............................................................................................42
The professional in governance setings: boundary spanners.......................................................43
2. Metagovernance & governance failures.......................................................................................44
Policy vs governance failure.........................................................................................................45
Governance failures & metagovernance......................................................................................46
Metagovernance..........................................................................................................................47
Governance failures & metagovernance......................................................................................47
Finding the right governance mix.................................................................................................52
Lecture 4: Bishoy zaki: governance, policy, learning and crises............................................................54
1. Introduction..................................................................................................................................54
What is governance?....................................................................................................................54
What is public policy?...................................................................................................................54
Governance and public policy.......................................................................................................54
2. how do things work? covid-19: policy learning & public governance...........................................55
Covid-19 as a wicked problem......................................................................................................55
Wicked problems, governance and crises.....................................................................................55
2
, Our main focus: governance of learning.......................................................................................56
understanding policy learning......................................................................................................56
describing the context: covid-19 as a creeping crisis....................................................................57
3. Part I: disciplinary governance (covid case)..................................................................................57
Covid 19: how can government respond?....................................................................................57
Covid 19: functional mode of learning..........................................................................................58
some initial challenges..................................................................................................................58
Covid 19 as a policymaking context..............................................................................................59
Meet nelson: the policymaking person........................................................................................59
Now remember what we’ve talked about....................................................................................59
epistemic venue-shopping............................................................................................................59
Vertical epistemic venue shopping...............................................................................................60
empirical example: the case of England.......................................................................................60
horizontal epistemic venue shopping...........................................................................................61
an empirical example: the case of Belgium..................................................................................61
Some findings...............................................................................................................................62
4. Part II: Multilevel learning governance (covid case).....................................................................62
Towards a theory of learning governance....................................................................................63
examples of learning governance interventions...........................................................................64
How can things be improved?..........................................................................................................64
Governance failures: discussion...................................................................................................64
implications for regulatory governance of learning in crisis.........................................................65
Lecture 5: guest lecture: EY..................................................................................................................66
1. Introduction..................................................................................................................................66
2. Need for collaboration in the drinking water sector.....................................................................66
Blue deal.......................................................................................................................................66
Water companies in flanders........................................................................................................67
Common challenges for water companies...................................................................................68
Drivers & conditions for collaboration in the water sector...........................................................68
A request to explore concrete collaboration................................................................................69
Theory: interorganizational trust in the public sector......................................................................70
Key insight 1: Break free from unidimensional perspective on trust............................................70
Key insight 2: break free from optimistic bias toward trust..........................................................71
Key insight 3: break free from trade-off perspective on trust & distrust......................................72
3. Case application: building ‘Waterunie’.........................................................................................73
3
, Evidence-based cooperation between watergroep & farys..........................................................73
Some preliminary results..............................................................................................................75
What will the future bring?..........................................................................................................76
5. Discussion.....................................................................................................................................76
Lecture 6: Integrated Youth care case..................................................................................................79
1. How to govern complex intersectoral collaboration: a case study from Belgium: introduction...79
Case Integrated Youth care..........................................................................................................79
2. some basic concepts.....................................................................................................................80
3. Choosing & mixing governance modes at program level..............................................................81
Initial situation in youth care........................................................................................................81
Objective of Integrated Youth Care (IYC)......................................................................................82
Three basic modes to achieve coordination between actors (governance modes)......................83
Goal: IYC as a flowchart with actors.............................................................................................84
Three basic modes + one hybrid...................................................................................................84
Goal: Realising IYC by five policy tracks in the policy program.....................................................85
4. Switching between governance modes over time........................................................................86
Design timeline of program with policy lines................................................................................86
5. How to arrange governance from program level to project level.................................................87
Design – governance at different levels........................................................................................87
Question.......................................................................................................................................88
Coordinate objectives, management and dynamics at different governance levels.....................88
Monitoring and accountability from program level to project level (vertical vs horizontal).........89
6. Main take aways...........................................................................................................................89
Update 2020.................................................................................................................................90
Lecture 7: Recap...................................................................................................................................92
1. What we want you to learn..........................................................................................................92
2. The lectures..................................................................................................................................92
3. The essential readings..................................................................................................................93
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GOVERNANCE
Inhoudsopgave
Lecture 1: Public governance and sustainability.....................................................................................5
1. Setting the stage.............................................................................................................................5
Governance definitions...................................................................................................................5
2. Sustainability & SDG’s.....................................................................................................................7
2.1 The ultimate definition of sustainable development................................................................7
2.2 A quick history..........................................................................................................................7
2.3 From Global to local – RIO 1992...............................................................................................7
2.4 Local agenda 21 in practice.......................................................................................................8
2.5 Sustainability as a concept........................................................................................................8
2.6 Increasing facts & figures regarding S&SD................................................................................9
2.7 Time for the Millennium Goals...............................................................................................10
2.8 Are we there yet? 2023-report...............................................................................................12
2.9 Working or not?......................................................................................................................13
2.10 SDG’s & The role of local government..................................................................................14
2.11 Connecting SD-agenda’s.......................................................................................................14
2.12 THE RISE OF GLOBAL URBAN NETWORKS AROUND SUSTAINABILITY...................................15
2.13 Interim result: DYNAMICS OF RESCALING.............................................................................15
3. Guest Lecture Tinne Van Der Straeten, Belgian minister of energy..............................................16
Lecture 2: European Green Deal – Claire dupont.................................................................................16
1. Scale & scope of the climate challenge.........................................................................................17
2. Historical development of eu climate mitigation policy...............................................................18
2.1 EU competence.......................................................................................................................18
2.2 International and EU climate interactions..............................................................................18
2.3 EU policy deverlopments........................................................................................................19
3. The european green deal..............................................................................................................20
Origins & inspiration.....................................................................................................................21
Implementing the EGD (European Green Deal)............................................................................23
Fit for 55.......................................................................................................................................24
REPowerEU...................................................................................................................................24
4. Outlook.........................................................................................................................................26
1
, To conclude......................................................................................................................................28
Lecture 3: Complex world of governance.............................................................................................29
1. Recap Tinne Van der straeten.......................................................................................................29
2.1. More insight on the energy crisis...........................................................................................30
2.2. Link to course & theory..........................................................................................................31
2. Complex world of governance......................................................................................................33
EX. inclusive growth......................................................................................................................33
Center of government (FPS Chancellery of the prime minister)...................................................33
in historical perspective (Osborne, 2006).....................................................................................34
A fourth perspective? the NSOB model........................................................................................35
critical reflections.........................................................................................................................38
Case: discrimination.....................................................................................................................38
Critical reflections.........................................................................................................................39
Case: the integration sector..........................................................................................................39
Frederickson concludes................................................................................................................39
MANY ‘GOVERNANCE’ TEXTS: TOO GENERAL ABOUT ‘THE’ GOVERNMENT.................................40
The complex reality of governance...............................................................................................40
Link to required readings – Head..................................................................................................40
Type of wicked problem (Head)....................................................................................................41
The complex reality of governance...............................................................................................42
The professional in governance setings: boundary spanners.......................................................43
2. Metagovernance & governance failures.......................................................................................44
Policy vs governance failure.........................................................................................................45
Governance failures & metagovernance......................................................................................46
Metagovernance..........................................................................................................................47
Governance failures & metagovernance......................................................................................47
Finding the right governance mix.................................................................................................52
Lecture 4: Bishoy zaki: governance, policy, learning and crises............................................................54
1. Introduction..................................................................................................................................54
What is governance?....................................................................................................................54
What is public policy?...................................................................................................................54
Governance and public policy.......................................................................................................54
2. how do things work? covid-19: policy learning & public governance...........................................55
Covid-19 as a wicked problem......................................................................................................55
Wicked problems, governance and crises.....................................................................................55
2
, Our main focus: governance of learning.......................................................................................56
understanding policy learning......................................................................................................56
describing the context: covid-19 as a creeping crisis....................................................................57
3. Part I: disciplinary governance (covid case)..................................................................................57
Covid 19: how can government respond?....................................................................................57
Covid 19: functional mode of learning..........................................................................................58
some initial challenges..................................................................................................................58
Covid 19 as a policymaking context..............................................................................................59
Meet nelson: the policymaking person........................................................................................59
Now remember what we’ve talked about....................................................................................59
epistemic venue-shopping............................................................................................................59
Vertical epistemic venue shopping...............................................................................................60
empirical example: the case of England.......................................................................................60
horizontal epistemic venue shopping...........................................................................................61
an empirical example: the case of Belgium..................................................................................61
Some findings...............................................................................................................................62
4. Part II: Multilevel learning governance (covid case).....................................................................62
Towards a theory of learning governance....................................................................................63
examples of learning governance interventions...........................................................................64
How can things be improved?..........................................................................................................64
Governance failures: discussion...................................................................................................64
implications for regulatory governance of learning in crisis.........................................................65
Lecture 5: guest lecture: EY..................................................................................................................66
1. Introduction..................................................................................................................................66
2. Need for collaboration in the drinking water sector.....................................................................66
Blue deal.......................................................................................................................................66
Water companies in flanders........................................................................................................67
Common challenges for water companies...................................................................................68
Drivers & conditions for collaboration in the water sector...........................................................68
A request to explore concrete collaboration................................................................................69
Theory: interorganizational trust in the public sector......................................................................70
Key insight 1: Break free from unidimensional perspective on trust............................................70
Key insight 2: break free from optimistic bias toward trust..........................................................71
Key insight 3: break free from trade-off perspective on trust & distrust......................................72
3. Case application: building ‘Waterunie’.........................................................................................73
3
, Evidence-based cooperation between watergroep & farys..........................................................73
Some preliminary results..............................................................................................................75
What will the future bring?..........................................................................................................76
5. Discussion.....................................................................................................................................76
Lecture 6: Integrated Youth care case..................................................................................................79
1. How to govern complex intersectoral collaboration: a case study from Belgium: introduction...79
Case Integrated Youth care..........................................................................................................79
2. some basic concepts.....................................................................................................................80
3. Choosing & mixing governance modes at program level..............................................................81
Initial situation in youth care........................................................................................................81
Objective of Integrated Youth Care (IYC)......................................................................................82
Three basic modes to achieve coordination between actors (governance modes)......................83
Goal: IYC as a flowchart with actors.............................................................................................84
Three basic modes + one hybrid...................................................................................................84
Goal: Realising IYC by five policy tracks in the policy program.....................................................85
4. Switching between governance modes over time........................................................................86
Design timeline of program with policy lines................................................................................86
5. How to arrange governance from program level to project level.................................................87
Design – governance at different levels........................................................................................87
Question.......................................................................................................................................88
Coordinate objectives, management and dynamics at different governance levels.....................88
Monitoring and accountability from program level to project level (vertical vs horizontal).........89
6. Main take aways...........................................................................................................................89
Update 2020.................................................................................................................................90
Lecture 7: Recap...................................................................................................................................92
1. What we want you to learn..........................................................................................................92
2. The lectures..................................................................................................................................92
3. The essential readings..................................................................................................................93
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