DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL
SCIENCE
UNIVERSITY OF GHANA
FIRST SEMESTER, 2017/2018
COURSE OUTLINE AND READING LIST
LECTURER: Professor
Ransford Gyampo
COURSE
OUTLINE AND READINGS
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COURSE TITLE
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GOVERNANCE AND LEADERSHIP
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COURSE CODE
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POLI 361
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COURSE CREDITS
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3
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PURPOSE
AND OBJECTIVES
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Welcome to this Course,
Governance and Leadership. The Course entails a detailed and thorough study
of the concepts of governance, leadership, theories and forms of leadership.
It discusses the relationship between governance and leadership; the role of
governance and leadership in promoting development; and barriers to good
governance and effective leadership. In
the conduct of lectures and tutorials, concrete examples will be drawn from
the global setting, but with specific emphasis on what pertains in Africa and
Ghana. At the end of the Course, you be able to define the term governance
and identify its main ingredients; identify and explain the types of
governance; distinguish between the Orders of Governance; explain the concept
of good governance and identify its basic features; define leadership;
explain the theories and types of leadership; distinguish between a leader
and a manager; state the role of governance and leadership in promoting
development; and identify the obstacles to good governance and effective
leadership.
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OFFICE
LOCATION
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Department of Political
Science, University of Ghana, Room 7
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OFFICE
HOURS
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Mondays: 10.00am – 4.30pm
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EMAIL
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LECTURE
PERIOD & VENUE
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Fridays 11.30am -13.20pm @
JQB 23
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WEEK
NO.
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LECTURE
TOPIC
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TUTORIALS
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ASSESSMENT
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1
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Conceptualizing Governance and
Discussing its Essence
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Teaching/Graduate Assistants
to assist students in defining and conceptualizing Governance
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2
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Types of Governance (Example
Political Governance, Social Governance, Economic Governance, Natural
Resource Governance, etc)
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Students to be guided in
discussing the various types of governance
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3
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Types of Governance (Example
Political Governance, Social Governance, Economic Governance, Natural
Resource Governance, etc)
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Provide tutorials on types
of governance
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4
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A Review of the State of
Governance in Africa
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5
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A Review of the State of
Governance in Africa
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Students to discuss and
share their perspectives on the state of governance in Ghana
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6
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Defining Good Governance and
Examining its Features
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Students should review the
Mo Ibrahim Report on Governance in Africa from 2010-2015
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7
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Defining Leadership as
distinct from Management
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Students to try on their own
to draw a line of demarcation between a leader and a manager
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Interim Assessment (30%)
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8
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A Review of the major
theories of leadership
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Students must examine in
detail, the merits of each of the leadership theories
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9
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Types, Styles and Qualities
of Leadership
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Students to mention the
types of (democratic, transformational, servant, autocratic or
laisseiz-faire), leadership and explain give practical examples to illustrate
each
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10
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The Challenges of Governance and Leadership in Africa using
Ghana as a microscope
(Defining and Discussing the
Manifestations of Winner-Takes-All Politics)
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Students to identify the
challenges of governance and leadership in Ghana
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11
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The Challenges of Governance and Leadership in Africa using
Ghana as a microscope
(Analyzing How Winner-Takes-All
Politics Undermines Governance and Leadership in Africa)
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Students to be guided to
operationalize Winner-Takes-All Politics as distinct from the
Winner-Takes-All Formula for selecting leaders
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12
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Relationship between Good
Governance, Leadership and Development
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Students to be assisted in
clearly identifying the relationship between the three
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13
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Re-cap of Semester
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14
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STUDENT REVISION
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15-17
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EXAMINATION (70%)
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COURSE READINGS
Gyampo,
R.E.V. (2015). “Dealing with Ghana’s Winner-Takes-All Politics: A Case for
Proportional Representation?” The Journal
of Social Sciences Research, Vol. 1, No. 4, pp 41-46.
Gyampo,
R.E.V. (2015). “Dealing with Winner-Takes-All Politics in Ghana: The Case for
National Development Planning” Governance,
Vol. 20, No. 1 (January/February), pp 1-11.
Gyampo,
R.E.V. (2013) The State of Political
Institutions in Ghana, Saarbrucken, Germany: Lambert Academic Publishing
Inc.
Kwakye, J.K. (2013) “The Price
of Leadership Failings in Ghana” Legislative
Alert, Vol. 20, No. 5 (September/October), pp 1-4.
Gandossy R., and Sonnenfeld
J., 2004. Leadership and Governance from
the Inside Out (New Jersey: Wiley & Sons Inc).
Bell S., 2002. Economic Governance and Institutional
Dynamics (Melbourne: Oxford University Press).
Rosenau J. 1999. “Towards
Ontology for Global Governance” in Martin Hewson and Thomas Sinclair (eds) Approaches to Global Governance Theory
(Albany: SUNY Press).
Kooiman J., 1993 “Social
Political Governance: Introduction” in J. Kooiman (ed) Modern Governance: New Government- Society Interactions (SAGE
Publications).
Stoker G., 1998. “Governance
as Theory: Five Propositions” International
Social Science Journal, Vol 50, pp17-28.
Grover, S., 2008. Managing the Public Sector (Boston:
Thomson Higher Education)
Dessart, M and Ubogu R., 2001.
Capacity Building, Governance and
Economic Reforms in Africa (Washington DC: IMF)
The Heritage Foundation
Foundation, 2009. Mandate for Effective
Leadership (Washington DC: The Heritage Foundation).
Agyemang, K., 2011 Leadership, Governance and Ethic (Accra:
Excellent Printing Press).
Denhardt R. and Denhardt J.
2009. Public Administration: An Action Orientation,
Sixth Edition (Belmont: Thomson Higher Education).
Fitch L.C. 1996. Making Democracy Work: The Life and Letters
of Luther Halsey Gulick, 1892-1993 (California: University of California
Press).
Blackman D and Lejeune H.
(eds.) 1990. Behaviour Analysis in Theory
and Practice: Contributions and Controversies. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Torrington et. al., 2005 Human Resorce Management (England:
Prentice Hall).
Olowu D. 1995.
“Centralization, Self-Governance and Development in Nigeria” in J.S Wunsch and
D. Olowu (eds.) The Failure of the
Centralized State: Institutions and Self-Governance in Africa (San
Francisco: Institute for Contemporary Studies Press).
Spillane James et al. 2004.
“Towards a Theory of Leadership Practice” Journal
of Curriculum Studies 36 (1): 3-34.
World Bank, 1991. Managing Development- The Governance
Dimension (Washington DC: World Bank).
REQUIREMENTS/
GENERAL INFORMATION
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Extensive Reading (at least
70% of the required reading materials) is a MUST
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There would be 13 weeks of
lectures and students must endeavor to attend all lectures. The course shall
not be done by correspondence.
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Students must be punctual in
attending all lectures. No lateness would be tolerated
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Students MUST attend tutorials
regularly and make MEANINGFUL contributions to class discussions.
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An Interim Assessment would be
conducted and would constitute 30% of the final grades of students. The final
exam would account for 70% of students’ grade.
- For information on Grading Scale, students may refer to Undergraduate Handbook for details.
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Students MUST comport
themselves during lectures. No acts of indiscipline such as ringing of mobile
phones and all other acts that could distract the attention of other students
while lectures are on-going would be tolerated
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