基層治理是當代公共行政的核心，是反映一個國家人民自治的品質。對政治秩序而言，扁平的基層治理至少與科層政府的治理同等重要。這門DPA研討課旨在通過討論中國城鄉的精選案例，並比較縱向的中國歷史案例和橫向的全球案例，讓學員能深入理解當代中國的基層治理。本課程包含五個主要內容：治理理論和基層治理理論、作為背景的中共治理理念、農村基層治理案例研究、城市基層治理案例研究、中國歷史案例和國外案例。 本課程的考核要求是提交一篇6,000-7,000字的學期論文。論文比較自己感興趣的兩個當代案例，展示基層治理的特點和難點。 Grassroots governance serves as the core of contemporary public administration, reflecting the quality of people’s self-rule in a nation; and it is at least as important to political order as the governance by the government hierarchy. This DPA seminar aims at an advanced understanding on the grassroots governance in contemporary China. It will be conducted by studying selected cases in both urban and rural China, supplemented with vertical (historical) and horizontal (worldwide) cases. This course contains five major contents: theories on governance and grassroots governance, CPC ideas on governance as background, case studies on rural grassroots governance, case studies on urban grassroots governance, cases in the Chinese history and abroad. The student evaluation requires a term paper between 6,000-7,000 characters, comparing two contemporary cases of one’s own interest, to demonstrate the features and difficulties in the grassroots governance.

CILO-1: Identify key points of current issues in public administration and public policy. CILO-2: Discuss some core theoretical concepts in public administration and public policy. CILO-3: Apply the theoretical concepts learnt from this course to explain the public policy in Macau, Hong Kong, and Mainland China. CILO-4: Evaluate and argue for possible solutions to real problems in public policy and public administration areas.