DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE

                                                                UNIVERSITY OF GHANA

                                                          FIRST SEMESTER, 2022/2023

                                                   COURSE OUTLINE AND READING LIST

                                                     LECTURER: Professor Ransford Gyampo

                                 

COURSE OUTLINE AND READINGS

COURSE TITLE	GOVERNANCE AND LEADERSHIP
COURSE CODE	POLI 361
COURSE CREDITS	3
PURPOSE AND OBJECTIVES	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.
OFFICE LOCATION	Department of Political Science, University of Ghana, Room 7
OFFICE HOURS	Mondays: 10.00am – 4.30pm
EMAIL	vangyampo@yahoo.com or revgyampo@ug.edu.gh
LECTURE PERIOD & VENUE	Mondays  5.30pm -7.20pm @ JQB 09
WEEK NO.	LECTURE TOPIC	TUTORIALS	ASSESSMENT
1	Conceptualizing Governance and Discussing its Essence	Teaching/Graduate Assistants to assist students in defining and conceptualizing Governance
2	Types of Governance (Example Political Governance, Social Governance, Economic Governance, Natural Resource Governance, etc)	Students to be guided in discussing the various types of governance
3	Types of Governance (Example Political Governance, Social Governance, Economic Governance, Natural Resource Governance, etc)	Provide tutorials on types of governance
4	A Review of the State of Governance in Africa
5	A Review of the State of Governance in Africa	Students to discuss and share their perspectives on the state of governance in Ghana
6	Defining Good Governance and Examining its Features	Students should review the Mo Ibrahim Report on Governance in Africa from 2010-2015
7	Defining Leadership as distinct from Management	Students to try on their own to draw a line of demarcation between a leader and a manager	Interim Assessment (30%)
8	A Review of the major theories of leadership	Students must examine in detail, the merits of each of the leadership theories
9	Types, Styles and Qualities of Leadership	Students to mention the types of (democratic, transformational, servant, autocratic or laisseiz-faire), leadership and explain give practical examples to illustrate each
10	The Challenges of  Governance and Leadership in Africa using Ghana as a microscope (Defining and Discussing the Manifestations of Winner-Takes-All Politics)	Students to identify the challenges of governance and leadership in Ghana
11	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)	Students to be guided to operationalize Winner-Takes-All Politics as distinct from the Winner-Takes-All Formula for selecting leaders
12	Relationship between Good Governance, Leadership and Development	Students to be assisted in clearly identifying the relationship between the three
13	Re-cap of Semester
14	STUDENT REVISION
15-17	EXAMINATION (70%)

 

 

 

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

·         Extensive Reading (at least 70% of the required reading materials) is a MUST

·         There would be 13 weeks of lectures and students must endeavor to attend all lectures. The course shall not be done by correspondence.

·         Students must be punctual in attending all lectures. No lateness would be tolerated

·         Students MUST attend tutorials regularly and make MEANINGFUL contributions to class discussions.

·         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.

·         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