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QATAR FACULTY OF ISLAMIC STUDIES LECTURE SERIESWITH PROFESSOR LESLIE PAL
Dr. Leslie Pal ,Professor of Public Policy and Administration Director, Centre for Governance and Public Management Chancellor's Professor School of Public Policy and Administration Carleton University, will be visiting QFIS between April 16th and 30th. His visit is part of the global engagement orientation of the Master in Public Policy in Islam. Dr. Pal is author of the key text used in our Policy Theory and Analysis course. His visits add an exciting dimension to the learning experience at QFIS. This year Dr. Pal will lecture on Policy Communities and Networks, Evaluation, and the Realities of Policy Making. He will also be giving two seminars that will be open to the public on the following two issues [1]:
Challenges of Governance: The OECD View
Established in 1961, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) is the "club" of the world's 30 richest countries. Despite having little or no leverage over its members or non-members states, the OECD is very active in establishing standards on everything from international taxation, financial institutions, and range of policy areas. Some 40,000 public servants from around the world visit the OECD in Paris each year. One of the OECD's key areas of work and research is around governance and public management. This lecture explores what the OECD has had to say about the challenges of governance over the last fifteen years, and its view is of good governance and sound public management. For better of worse, what the OECD thinks about these issues influences governments around the world in their public sector reform efforts.
The End of Small Government: The Impact of the Global Finance Crisis.
A particular style of brand of government gained ascendancy in the 1980s and 1990s -- there were strong pressures in most western and many non-western governments to down-size the public sector, privatize, deregulate, and reduce expenditures. It was an era of "small government" that assumed that the less intervention the better -- governments were by definition inefficient and clumsy, and private markets should be allowed to operate as freely as possible. The global financial crisis appears to have exploded that assumption. A new era of big government may be asserting itself. This lecture explores the emerging contours, tensions and contradictions of this new model of governance.
