1 – The Public Administration

2 – The Administrative Law

3 – Administrative Organization

4 – Administrative Powers

5 – Persons employed in administration

6 – Administrations activities

7 – Administrative Safeguards

1 – Concept and Object of Political Science.
1.1. Definition of Politics
1.2. Definition of Political Science
1.3. Openness, eclecticism and multidisciplinary

2 – Brief History of Political Ideas. Contemporary political thought.
2.1. Classical antiquity
2.2. The Middle Age
2.3. The Modern Age
2.4. Illuminism
2.5. The Contemporary Age

3 – Characterization of the state.
3.1. The State in history.
3.2. General characteristics of the State
3.3. The State as a political community or people
3.4. Forms of State
3.5. Separation of powers

4 – Political Forms .
4.1. The types of political forms in general
4.2. The major doctrinal classifications
4.3. Comparative Political Systems

5. Themes / political problems in the contemporary world.
5.1. The European Union: a political system sui generis
5.2. Cultural diversity: the end of the homogenous nation-state
5.3. Globalization and global governance

PART I. Public Policies on a
process-oriented approach

1. State and society. The State functions.
2. Public Policies: concept, actors and instruments.
3. Problem definition and their introduction in the political agenda.
4. Policy formulation and Decision-making.
5. Policy implementation.
6. Policy Evaluation.
7. The evolution of the Policy Sciences and the explanations for policy change
   
   PART II. Governance models and their relationship with policy-making
8. Public governance models
9. European integration models.
10. Public policies in the Regional and Local governance levels
    
    PART III. Sectoral Analysis of Public Policies
11. Analysis of cases of public policies

1.Background and evolution of Public Administration: the special case of New Public Management

2. The management of human resources in Public Administration: some policies and practices
2.a. Public Service Motivation
2.b. Recruitment and selection
2.c Performance Evaluation in Public Administration

3. New research trends in human resources management

1. Basic concepts in data analysis
   1.1. Population and sample
   1.2. Steps in the data analysis process
   1.3. Data classification according its scale of measurement
   1.4. Introduction to SPSS
2. Descriptive statistics
   2.1. Presentation of the data: tables and graphs
   2.2. Measures of location
   2.3. Measures of dispersion
   2.4. Measures of asymmetry
3. Statistical inference
   3.1. Basics concepts
   3.2. Sampling distributions
   3.3. Confidence intervals
   3.4. Hypothesis testing
4. Bivariate analysis
   4.1 Contingency tables
   4.2 Chi-square test
   4.3 Correlation
   4.4 Linear Regression

O1 – Knowledge and understanding:
O.1.1. To understand the dynamics of scientific production in Social Sciences;
O.1.2. To master the research methodologies of scientific work as well as how to present their results;
O.1.3. To formulate a topic and define the subject matter of research;
O.1.4.To know different methods used in research, sampling techniques and data analysis;
O.1.5. To acquire knowledge base at the level of research on the writing of a thesis.
O.1.6.To master communicative strategies.
O2 – Application:
O.2.1. To apply research methodologies;
O.2.2. To describe a subject/object of study of a research project;
O.2.3. To apply different methods used in research, sampling techniques and data analysis.
O3 – Communication skills To develop linguistic, non-linguistic and strategic communication skills.

1. The General Data Protection Regulation
2. Public Service Law: brief notes
3. Right of Urbanism
   3.1.Concept of Urbanism Law
   3.2. Constitutional Principles of Urban Planning Law
   3.3.The Administrative Organization
   3.4.Entities, bodies and services with powers and competences in the field of urbanism
   3.5.Legal Regime for Territorial Management Instruments
4. Right of Expropriations
   4.1. Notion of expropriation for public utility
   4.2. Object of expropriation
   4.3. Structure of the legal expropriation relationship
   4.4.Proposals for legitimizing expropriation
   4.5. Common expropriation procedure
   4.6. Deviations from the common expropriation procedure
5. Environmental Law
   5.1. Notion
   5.2. Constitutional consecration
   5.3.Sources of Environmental Law
   5.4.Principles of Environmental Law

Part One – Public Procurement:- Sources of law;

European Law of Contracts;
– Principles;
– Subjective and Objective application of the CPP;
– Procedures

Diverse steps of each procedure.

Part Two – The e-procurement:

Portal Base.
– The principles of competition and public interest in public procurement
– Horizontal policies promoted by public procurement
– The system for the control, audit, and prevention of economic corruption
– Comparative analysis of public procurement systems
– New research trends in the field of Public Procurement in its institutional dimension

1. Globalization dynamics and its socioeconomic consequences;
2. Statistical sources for the analysis of socio-economic policies;
3. The European Union as a transformation actor in the socioeconomic policies in Portugal;
4. Welfare State: historical conditions for its development, functions, objectives and diversity of models in Europe
5. Social Policies in Portugal and their connection with Portugal: case studies
6. Stages of development of the Portuguese Economy in the 20th and 21st centuries
7. Economic Development Policies in Portugal: tcase studies
8. The impact of the European Union and Community Funds on socio-economic development in Portugal
9. Socioeconomic policies in other regional blocs: the case of Asia-Pacific

1. Management and organizations
2. Leadership in organizations
3. Negotiation
4. Conflict management
5. New research trends in leadership, negotiation and conflict management

1. The information and knowledge society
   1.1 Concept and perspectives
2. Electronic Government
   2.1 Concept, objectives, implementation, impacts and evolution
   2.2 Interaction Groups: G2C-Government to Citizen, G2GGovernment to Government, G2B-Government to Business, G2E -Government to Employees
   2.3 Models and maturity levels: presence, interaction, transaction, transformation
   2.4 Local E- Government
   2.5Quality of Electronic Services
3. Public Administration Information Systems and Online Services
   3.1 Information Systems concepts: definition, characteristics, components, architecture, functions and types
   3.2 Information Systems in Public Administration and Online Services
4. Collaboration and Productivity Tools
5. Data analysis tools

• Dissertation a)

Personalized tutorial guidance for the development and organization of the scientific dissertation in the area of Law or Public Administration.

1. Preparing the dissertation
1.1 Presentation of relevance of the thematic
1.2 Objectives of the work
1.3 Literuture review
1.4 Methodology (theoretical, experimental, empirical and laboratorial)
1.5 Results and critical analysis of the results
1.6 Conclusions

• Project a)

1. Preparation of the project
   1.1 Presentation of relevance of the thematic
   1.2 Objectives of the work
   1.3 Literuture review
   1.4 Methodology (theoretical, experimental, empirical and laboratorial)
   1.5 Results and critical analysis of the results
   1.6 Conclusions

• Internship a)

1. Preparation of report internship:
   1.1 Critical description of the context of the internship (company and functions)
   1.2 Detailed study of a specific function in a organization:
   1.2.1 Objectives
   1.2.2 Resolution Mode / implementation and framework with scientific and technical literature
   1.2.3 Results analysis and business impact
   1.2.4 Conclusions

a) Choose one of three optional subjects.