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Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS MAL 6206 CONSTITUTIONAL ECONOMY COMPULSORY 3 0 0 5

Offered By

Public Finance

Level of Course Unit

Third Cycle Programmes (Doctorate Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR COŞKUNCAN AKTAN

Offered to

Public Finance

Course Objective

The students will be informed about constitutional economy and public choice theory.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Be able to have information about constitutional economy 2   Be able to establish the realtions of fiscal rule and constitutional economy 3   Be able to have analyze of welfare state and optimal state 4   Be able to handdle the regional development and localization within the context of public choice theory 5   Be able to establish the relations of rent seeking, degeneration and fiscal rule

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description 1 The context of welfare state 2 The criticism of wlefare state in terms of public choice theory 3 Rent seeking and degeneration 4 Fiscal Federalism 5 Fiscal Rules and Their Evaluations in terms of constitutional economy 6 Regulation and regulating state 7 Mid-term exam 8 Mid-term exam 9 The optimal state and limitation of state 10 Regional Development and clustering efforts 11 The philosophy of constitutional economics 12 Application of constitutional economics 13 Distinction between the Orthodox and Constitutional Economics 14 Optimum Constitution in terms of Economics Perspective

Recomended or Required Reading

Main Sources: Prof. Dr. Coşkun Can AKTAN, Anayasal Iktisat, Siyasal Kitapevi,2002 Related Sources: Vural Fuat SAVAŞ, Anayasal Iktisat, Ilke yayıncılık,2007 Other Materials: related books, articles, reports, law decisions etc.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Student oriented, theoretical lectures and debates on practical events

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA 1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM 2 STT TERM WORK (SEMESTER) 3 FIN FINAL EXAM 4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.30 + STT * 0.20 + FIN* 0.50 5 RST RESIT 6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.30 + STT * 0.20 + RST* 0.50 *** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Learning outcomes are related to evaluation criteria.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

will be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

e-mail: ccan.aktan@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Thursday: 15.45-16.45, Oda No: 518

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours) Lectures 14 3 42 Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 3 42 Preparation for midterm exam 1 10 10 Preparation for final exam 1 12 12 Preparing assignments 1 14 14 Preparing presentations 1 14 14 Final 1 1 1 Midterm 1 1 1 TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 136

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LO PO.1 PO.2 PO.3 PO.4 PO.5 PO.6 PO.7 PO.8 PO.9 PO.10 PO.11 LO.1 1 1 1 1 1 1 LO.2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 LO.3 1 1 1 1 1 LO.4 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 LO.5 1 1 1 1 1 1