The Government Lab

Learning Outcomes

Learning Outcomes

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Be able to evaluate and assess the viability of complex government implementation problems relying on evidence-based approaches learned in the module.
• Learn about ‘what works’ in solving complex government implementation problems and discuss their limitations.

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Understand academic papers that use experiments or quasi-experiments related to government implementation and be able to explain their findings to a broader audience.

The Big Stuck: The government capacity/implementation problem

Experiments as a tool to improve state capacity

E-government and AI

Motivating the bureaucracy

Guest speaker to present and applied case of a government implementation problem

Electoral mobilisation

Political interference in government

To delegate or not to delegate

Guest speaker to present an applied case of a government implementation problem

Evaluation and research utilisation

Teaching and learning methods

We will focus on understanding evidence-based academic papers and discuss how to apply them to broader real-world public policy cases.

This implies understanding the basics of quantitative methods and learning to interpret quantitative results.

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.