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Terminated in academic year 2019/2020

Public Economics and Administration

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction Czech
Code 153-0439/02
Abbreviation VES
Course title Public Economics and Administration
Credits 4
Coordinating department Department of Public Economics
Course coordinator doc. Ing. Petr Tománek, CSc.

Subject syllabus

1. Public economy and policy - definitions, elementary theoretical principles, contents and concepts, relations with public economics, content and signifikance.
2. The role of the state in the economy, market failure, government failure, state intervention, form, function and typology of the state.
3. Public choice theory - object of study, importance and applications for the public sector, direct and indirect democracy (voting rules), median voter theorem.
4. Public administration as manager of public economy - the concept, function, importance, state and local administration.
5. Public administration in the broader sense, the political system, separation of powers, central government authorities.
6. The legislative process in public administration, rule of law, legal and organizational regulations, meaning legislation.
7. Institutional concept of public administration - the power to remit institutions, the principles applied in the public administration, organizational principles.
8. Public government sector - the definition, development, size and needs of the public sector, factors affecting the public sector, efficiency in the public sector.
9. Civil sector - characteristics, organization of the civil sector, sources of financing of NGOs.
10. Public finances - public budgets, budget structure and budget process, public revenue and expenditure, international public finance, the EU budget.
11. Public investment and public support.
12. Public contracts and concessions - application public investment in public economy, public support, public projects, public contracts (meaning, assumptions and application, methods).
13. Public informatics - objectives and priorities of the state information policy, information systems of public administration, public information system, local information systems, free access to information, the specifics of information in public administration.
14. Public check - type of check, public check, internal check and its organization, financial check, the Supreme Audit Office, the central government check, and its institutions.

Literature

AUERBACH, A. J., FELDSTEIN, M. (2006). Handbook of Public Economics – Volume II. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 1106 s. ISBN 0-444-87908-0.
HINDRIKS, J., MYLES, G.D. (2006). Intermediate Public Economics. Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Cambridge. ISBN 9780262083447.
HILLMAN, A. L. 2009. Public Finance and Public Policy: Responsibilities and Limitations of Government. Second Ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2009, 859 s. ISBN 978-0-521-49426-7.

Advised literature

ROSENBLOOM, D. H., KRAVCHUK, R. S., CLERKIN, R. M. (2009). Public Administration: Understanding Management, Politics and Law in the Public Sector. 6th Ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 557 s. ISBN 978-007-126381-8.