COURSE UNIT TITLE

: PUBLIC CHOICE

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
MLY 4010 PUBLIC CHOICE COMPULSORY 3 0 0 4

Offered By

Public Finance

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR MUSTAFA SAKAL

Offered to

Public Finance (Evening)
Public Finance

Course Objective

Public Choice approach, the basic assumptions, sub-study areas and all aspects of the theories developed to offer.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Sorting to explain the basic assumptions of the public choice approach.
2   Describe the scope of public choice by making distinction between positive and normative.
3   To associate the public choice approach with economics and law
4   Defining the concept of representative democracy and sorting the problems of representative democracy
5   to explain the structure of voters, politicians, bureaucrats and special interest groups in the political process from the perspective of public choice
6   to sort the reasons of imperfect information and interpreting its economic, financial and political results.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Research Fields of Public Choice
2 Political Actors in the political process and the functioning of the political process
3 Law and Economics Approach
4 Growth of the State: Causes and Consequences
5 The anatomy of Government Failure-1: Theoretical Approach
6 The anatomy of Government Failure-2: Due to the inefficiencies in public administration
7 Problems of Information in Political Process
8 Midterm
9 Midterm
10 Critics of Democracy and the Failure of Democracy from Public Choice Perspective
11 The Game Theory from the Public Choice Perspective
12 The Economic Theory of Bureaucratic Behavior: An Evaluation of Public Choice Perspective
13 The Interest Groups in Political Decision-Making Process
14 The theory of rent seeking

Recomended or Required Reading

Main Source: Kamu Tercihi Iktisadı ve Anayasal Politik Iktisat, Prof. Dr. Coşkun Can AKTAN, Seçkin Yayıncılık.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lectures

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 MTEG MIDTERM GRADE MTEG * 1
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE MTEG * 0.40 + FIN * 0.60
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTEG * 0.40 + RST * 0.60


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

mustafa.sakal@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 12 3 36
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 12 3 36
Preparation for final exam 1 7 7
Preparation for midterm exam 1 7 7
Final 1 1 1
Midterm 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 88

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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