DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE
UNIVERSITY OF GHANA
FIRST SEMESTER, 2016/2017
COURSE OUTLINE AND READING LIST
LECTURER: Dr. 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 7.30am -9.20am @ E 9
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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
- 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
