Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
The Ideal of Self-Governance: Public Policy Beyond Markets and States
King's College London
This online course explored the foundations of self-governance as an approach to public policy beyond markets and states, focusing on key concepts, case studies and normative questions. The course covered key mechanisms of self-governance including public entrepreneurship, co-production and polycentricity. It also considered ethical arguments for and against self-governance as a method of solving collective action problems.
3 weeks, 2 hours per week
Mark Pennington
Professor of Political Economy and Public Policy
King's College London
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Explain how self-governance differs from market and state approaches to governance
- Describe how self-governing institutions can solve what economists call collective action problems
- Describe the role of public entrepreneurs in relation to self-governance institutions
- Evaluate the key arguments in favour of self-governance institutions and apply these to real-world case studies
- Debate the limitations of self-governing institutions
- Reflect on the relationship between citizenship and self-governance
Syllabus
- What is governance?
- What is the problem of public goods?
- How does governance function beyond markets and states?
- Examples of governance in different public policy spheres
- What are the conditions and limitations for different forms of governance?
- Being a citizen in a self-governing society
Issued on 31st January 2024
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