Learning objectives
The course aims to introduce students to public administration managerial issues by studying the evolution of administrative, management and control activities.
In this way, students are able to better analyze general economic and business phenomena (in particular of a public managerial nature) also by examining the structure of the public administration.


Course Contents
The program of the course concerns the presentation of the characteristics and managerial specificities of public institutions, of the main interpretative theories, the analysis of corporate functions in the public sector, the discussion of the processes of reform and innovation with a look oriented to the future (Public Private Partnership, New organizational models). The spectrum of topics investigated is very detailed, to allow the student to have a broad understanding of the characteristics of public institutions, managerial specificities and the trajectories of change underway.
In particular the topics covered are, considering for each module both the video lessons and the web lessons:
- Module 1 - Companies and public institutions: functions and aims
- Module 2 - Public institutions: systems, theories, strategies and economic-financial equilibria
- Module 3 - Public purchases. Performance evaluation and public accounting systems
- Module 4 - Ethics and public authorities. Interinstitutional relations
- Module 5 - Public institutions and for and non-profit companies. New organizational models
- Module 6 - Public / Private Partnership. Country system and governance in the public services sector
- Module 7 - Public services and administrative-managerial responsibility
- Module 8 - Administrative responsibility and revenue damage: the role of the Court of Auditors

M. Cucciniello, G. Fattore, F. Longo, E. Ricciuti, A. Turrini, Public Management, Egea, Milan, 2018.
M. Fratini, Compendium of Public Accounting, In Editor's Law, Molfetta, Bari, 2018 (Part IV, Chapter III; Part VI, Chapters I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII).
S. Cherubini, A. Padula, Management of public services, F. Angeli, Milan, 2012 (Chap. 1,2,5)