Sorin Ioniţă
Bucharest
sorin@ionita.eu
sionita@sar.org.ro
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In
the last 5 years I have been teaching as an associate lecturer two
semester
courses in the Political
Science
department of the National School of Government, Bucharest (a
public
university which goes by the longer and more awkward official name of
the
National School of Political and Administrative Studies - SNSPA). You can see a brief description
of these courses and the syllabi. My students are
usually in
terminal years and we rely very much in our courses and seminars -
which in my
case are hardly distinguishable - on weekly written assignments and
bibliography as a support for class discussions. Both courses aim to
offer the
students not so much specific information and data, but rather tools
and skills
so that they can function effectively as independent analysts of
development
issues or local policies.
As for
myself, I graduated in 1991 from the Bucharest Polytechnic School with
an
MSc in Engineering; in 1996 I received a BA in Moral and Political
Philosophy from the Bucharest University; in 1997 I obtained an MA in
Political Science and Public Policy from the Central European
University (CEU), Budapest. Subsequently I spent a trimester as a
visiting fellow at Oxford University (2000), and one year as a
Fulbright researcher at the Public Policy Institute of the Georgetown
University, Washington DC (2000-2001). In 2007 I took my PhD in
Political Science & Public Policy from the National School of
Government (SNSPA), Bucharest.
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Why some
societies are poor while others are rich? Why is prosperity
concentrated
in a
few areas of the globe, as you can see here?
How come that we
reached to
such a situation in just a few centuries, since not long ago most human
communities were more or less in the same state of (under)development? This course is an introduction to the classic
debate on the
sources and factors of prosperity, with a focus on the theories and
instruments
for development promotion, as they were formalized after WWII. The last
part
discusses the specific case of the former communist countries after
1990. |
This
course is an introduction to local government issues in 10 steps. It is
not a
description of institutions, but an overview of the logic of local
government
functioning, centered in the process of decentralization. The course
realies
heavily on case studies
and
in-class practical applications, such as the local tax simulations and
investment analysis. All the bibliography and teaching materials are
available
to the registered students at the beginning of the course on a CD. |
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