PADM 601 INTRODUCTION TO PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION Spring Semester 2010 Wednesdays 5:30-8:15 pm Rasmuson Hall 207B Instructor: Dr. G. Protasel Office: RH 307A Office Hours: W 3:00-4:00 pm and by appointment Phone: 786-1786 FAX: 786-4115 E-mail: GP@uaa.alaska.edu Class Mail list: PADM601@lists.uaa.alaska.edu Class Web page: http://www.cbpp.uaa.alaska.edu/afgjp COURSE DESCRIPTION: This is an introductory course in public administration intended for graduate students. The course begins with an exploration of the underpinnings and origins of public administration in the U.S. Part I: The Context of Public Administration describes the historical evolution and development of the field of public administration. The nature and structure of the modern administrative state and the realities of American bureaucracy are explained and analyzed. Special attention is also given to the system of federalism and intergovernmental relations that defines and shapes the public sector environment of managers at the local, state and federal levels of government. Part II: Management and Leadership in Public Organizations focuses on the internal dynamics of behavior within organizations. Organization theories are set forth as useful frameworks for helping managers better understand their organizations. Also, various decision making models ( e.g. rational, incremental, political etc.) are introduced which have proven to be useful for understanding the behavior of chief executives and managers in public organizations. The similarities and differences of managing in public, private and non profit organizations are discussed. Part III: The Core Functions of Public Administration explores the intricacies of human resources management, the budgetary process and program implementation: Such public sector labormanagement issues as collective bargaining, unionization, and workforce development are presented in light of the unique legal framework that shapes public personnel administration; the budgetary process is studied as a manifestation of political conflict over the allocation of limited public funds; and program implementation is looked upon as one of the most challenging tasks of administering public policies and programs. Finally, Part IV: Challenges and Prospects in a Turbulent Future covers the discipline of contemporary public administration in the first decade of the 21 st century. The need for greater administrative accountability and improved performance measurement is emphasized in light of the growing regulatory power of
PADM 601 Introduction to Public Administration Springl 2010 Dr. Protasel page 2 of 9 government. The important role of ethics in guiding public managers through turbulent times and in creating responsible government is studied. The rise of E government and new forms of citizen engagement made possible through information technology are also analyzed. GRADING AND COURSE FORMAT: This class will be taught in a seminar/discussion format. Students are responsible for reading the assigned materials prior to coming to class. Each week the responsibility for leading the class discussion on specific readings will be assigned to members of the class. The readings from the required textbooks are indicated in this course syllabus. There are also required supplemental readings for each week that can be found at the class website. Class participation will be a factor in assigning the final course grade. There are four essay think piece assignments ( 5 7 pages) required for this course. These essays will be based on the supplemental readings found on the class website. For each part of the course, students will get to choose which set of supplemental readings to write on. More will be said about these essay assignments in class. In addition, everyone will write an analytical book review of Goodsell s public administration polemic on bureaucracy. The list of written assignments, the dates they are due, and their relative weights toward the final course grade are displayed in the table below. Class participation and discussion will also be a factor in assigning final grades for the course. Assignment Book Review: Goodsell s Polemic on Bureaucracy Essay #1 Essay #2 Essay #3 Essay #4 General Course Topic/Date The Case for Bureaucracy/ 2/3 Part I: The Context of Public Administration/ 2/17 Part II: Management and Leadership in Public Organizations/ 3/3 Part III: The Core Functions of Public Management/ 3/31 Part IV: Challenges and Prospects in a Turbulent Future/ 4/28 Weight 10% 20% 20% 20% 20% Class Participation 10% TEXTBOOKS:
PADM 601 Introduction to Public Administration Springl 2010 Dr. Protasel page 3 of 9 Richard J. Stillman II, Public Administration: Concepts and Cases, Ninth Edition ( Boston, MA: Wadsworth, Cengage Learning 2010) Jay M. Shafritz, Albert C. Hyde, & Sandra J. Parkes, Classics of Public Administration, 6th Edition (Florence: KY, Thompson Wadsworth, 2007) Goodsell, Charles T., The Case for Bureaucracy: A Public Administration Polemic, 4 th Edition (Washington, DC: CQ Press, 2004) COURSE OUTLINE & ASSIGNMENTS DATE Week 1 Jan. 13 ASSIGNMENT Introduction and Overview of Course PART I: THE CONTEXT OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION Week 2 Jan. 20 TOPIC: The Discipline of Public Administration Richard J. Stillman II, Public Administration Reading 1.1: Woodrow Wilson, The Study of Administration Reading 1.2: Richard J. Stillman II, The Study of Public Administration in the United States Case Study 1: John Bartlow Martin, The Blast in Centralia No. 5: A Mine Disaster No One Stopped Leonard D. White (1926) Introduction to the Study of Public Administration (in Classics p. 49) Dwight Waldo (1948) The Administrative State: Conclusion (in Classics p.138) H. George Frederickson (1971) Toward a New Public Administration (in Classics p. 296) David H. Rosenbloom (1983) Public Administrative Theory and the Separation of Powers (in Classics p. 434) Camilla Stivers (1990) Toward a Feminist Perspective in Public Administration Theory (in Classics p. 470) Donald F. Kettl (2002) The Transformation of Governance: Who Governs and How? ( in Classics p. 577) Week 3 TOPIC: Bureaucracy
PADM 601 Introduction to Public Administration Springl 2010 Dr. Protasel page 4 of 9 Jan 27 Richard J. Stillman, Public Administration Reading 2: Max Weber, Bureaucracy Case Study 2: George Lardner, Jr. How Kristin Died Reading 3, John M. Gaus, The Ecology of Public Administration Case Study 3: Terry L. Cooper and Thomas A Bryer, William Robertson: Exemplar of Politics and Public Management Rightly Understood Robert K. Merton (1940) Bureaucratic Structure and Personality (in Classics p. 97) Warren Bennis (1967) Organizations of the Future (in Classics p. 220) Anthony Downs ( 1967) The Life Cycle of Bureaus (in Classics p. 239) Michael Lipsky (1980) Street-Level Bureaucracy: The Critical Role of Street- Level Bureaucrats ( in Classics p. 404) Michael Barzelay with Babak J. Armanjani ( 1992) Breaking Through Bureaucracy (in Classics p. 529) Week 4 Feb. 3 Book Review TOPIC: Intergovernmental Relations Richard J. Stillman, Public Administration Reading 5: Tim Conlan, From Cooperative to Opportunistic Federalism Case Study 5: Susan Rosegrant, Wichita Confronts Contamination Morton Grodzins (1966) The American System (in Classics, p. 215) Deil S. Wright (1990) Federalism, Intergovernmental Relations, and Intergovernmental Management: Historical Reflections and Conceptual Comparisons (in Classics, p. 508)
PADM 601 Introduction to Public Administration Springl 2010 Dr. Protasel page 5 of 9 PART II: MANAGEMENT & LEADERSHIP IN PUBLIC ORGANIZATIONS Week 5 Feb. 10 TOPIC: Organization Theory Richard J. Stillman, Public Administration Reading 6: Elton Mayo, Hawthorne and the Western Electric Company Case Study 6: William Langewiesche, American Ground: Unbuilding the World Trade Center Frederick W. Taylor (1912) Scientific Management (in Classics, p. 36) Mary Parker Follett (1926) The Giving of Orders (in Classics, p. 57) Luther Gulick (1937) Note on the Theory of Organization (in Classics, p. 79) Chester I. Barnard (1938) Informal Organizations and Their Relation to formal Organization (in Classics, p. 93) Herbert A. Simon (1946) The Proverbs of Administration ( in Classics, p. 124) Philip Selznick (1949) The Cooptative Mechanism (in Classics, p. 143) Daniel Katz & Robert L. Kahn (1966) Organizations and the System Concept (in Classics p. 189) J. Steven Ott (1989) Understanding Organizational Culture (in Classics, p. 479) Week 6 Feb. 17 Essay #1 TOPIC : Collaborative Processes & Decision-making Richard J. Stillman II, Public Administration Reading 8: Charles E. Lindblom, The Science of Muddling Through Case Study 8: Michael Grunwald and Susan B. Glasser, How a City Slowly Drowned Yehezkel Dror (1967) Policy Analysts: A New Professional Role in Government Service (in Classics, p. 231) Theodore J. Lowi (1969) The End of Liberalism: The Indictment (in Classics, p. 279) John W. Kingdon (1995) How Does An Idea s Time Come? Agenda, Alternatives, and Public Policies (in Classics, p. 445) Deborah Stone (1997) Policy Paradox: The Art of Political Decision-Making (in Classics, p. 559 Week 7 TOPIC: Public Management
PADM 601 Introduction to Public Administration Springl 2010 Dr. Protasel page 6 of 9 Feb. 24 Richard J. Stillman II, Public Administration Reading 13: Paul C. Light, The Tides of Reform Revisited: Patterns in Making Government Work Case Study 13: Katherine Boo, Expectations Jane Addams (1904) Problems of Municipal Administration (in Classics, p. 31) Louis Brownlow, Charles E. Merriam, & Luther Gulick (1937) Report of the President s Committee on Administrative Management (in Classics, p. 88) Excerpt from the Hoover Commission Report (1949) The Report of the Commission on Organization of the Executive Branch of Government (in Classics, p. 150) Graham T. Allison (1980) Public and Private Management: Are They Fundamentally Alike in All Unimportant Respects? (In Classics, p. 387) Ronald C. Moe (1987) Exploring the Limits of Privatization (in Classics, p. 460) Christopher Hood (1990) A Public Management for All Seasons? (In Classics, p. 495) PART III: THE CORE FUNCTIONS OF PUBLIC MANAGEMENT Week 8 Mar. 3 Essay #2 TOPIC: Human Resources Management Richard J. Stillman II, Public Administration Reading 7: Richard J. Stillman II, Inside Public Bureaucracy Case Study 7: James P. Pfiffner, The Decision to Go to War with Iraq Reading 11: Louis Recascino, The Public Service Culture Case Study 11: Deborah Sontag, Who Brought Bernadine Healy Down? A. H. Maslow (1943) A Theory of Human Motivation (in Classics, p. 111) Douglas Murray McGregor (1957) The Human Side of Enterprise ( in Classics, p. 158) Samuel Krislov (1974) Representative Bureaucracy (in Classics, p. 330) Frederick C. Mosher (1982) Democracy and the Public Service: The Collective Services (in Classics, p. 423) R. Roosevelt Thomas, Jr., (1990) From Affirmative Action to Affirming Diversity (in Classics, p. 486)
PADM 601 Introduction to Public Administration Springl 2010 Dr. Protasel page 7 of 9 Week 9 Mar. 10 SPRING BREAK HOLIDAY NO CLASS Week 10 Mar. 17 TOPIC: The Budgetary Process Reading 12: Irene S. Rubin, The Politics of Public Budgets Case Study 12, Philip Taubman, Death of a Spy Satellite Program William F. Willoughby (1918) The Movement for Budgetary Reform in the States (in Classics, p. 39) V.O. Key, Jr. (1940) The Lack of a Budgetary Theory (in Classics, p. 106) Allen Schick (1966) The Road to PPB: The Stages of Budget Reform (in Classics p. 199) Aaron Wildavsky (1969) Rescuing Policy Analysis from PPBS (in Classics, p. 252) Charles H. Levine (1978) Organizational Decline and Cutback Management (in Classics, p. 335) Naomi Caiden (1981) Public Budgeting amidst Uncertainty and Instability (in Classics, p. 412) Week 11 Mar. 24 TOPIC: Implementation Reading 9: James L. Garnett, Administrative Communication ( Or How to Make All the Rest Work): The Concept of its Professional Centrality Case Study 9: Susan Rosegrant, The Shooting at Columbine High School: The Law Enforcement Response Martin Landau, Redundancy, Rationality, and the Problem of Duplication and Overlap (1969) (in Classics, p. 283) Jeffrey L. Pressman & Aaron Wildavsky (1973) Implementation (in Classics, p. 319) PART IV: CHALLENGES AND PROSPECTS IN A TURBULENT FUTURE
PADM 601 Introduction to Public Administration Springl 2010 Dr. Protasel page 8 of 9 Week 12 Mar. 31 Essay #3 TOPIC: Administrative Responsibility & Program Evaluation Reading 15: Carl J. Friedrich, Public Policy and the Nature of Administrative Responsibility Herman Finer, Administrative Responsibility in Democratic Government Case Study 15, James P. Pfiffner, Torture and Public Policy Alice M. Rivlin (1971) Systematic Thinking for Social Action (in Classics, p. 308) The National Performance Review (1993) From Red Tape to Results: Creating a Government That Works Better and Costs Less (in Classics p. 551) Week 13 Apr. 7 TOPIC: The Power of Government Reading 4: Norton E. Long, Power and Administration Case Study 4: Maureen Hogan Casamayou, The Columbia Accident Frank J. Goodnow (1900), Politics and Administration (in Classics, p. 28) Paul Appleby (1945) Government is Different (in Classics, p. 119) Herbert Kaufman (1969), Administrative Decentralization and Political Power (in Classics, p. 266) Week 14 Apr. 14 Week 15 TOPIC: Ethics Reading 16: Dwight Waldo, Public Administration and Ethics: A Prologue to a Preface Case Study 16: Richard D. White Jr., George Tenet and the last Great Days of the CIA Frederick C. Mosher & Others (1974) Watergate: Implications for Responsible Government (in Classics, p. 323) Dennis F. Thompson (1985) The Possibility of Administrative Ethics (in Classics, p. 448) Carol W. Lewis (1991) The Ethics Challenge in Public Service ( in Classics, p. 524) Guy B. Adams and Danny L. Balfour (1998) In the Face of Administrative Evil: Finding a Basis for Ethics ( in Classics, p. 566) TOPIC: E Government
PADM 601 Introduction to Public Administration Springl 2010 Dr. Protasel page 9 of 9 Apr. 21 Reading 10: Ann Marie Thomson and James L. Perry, Collaboration Processes: Inside the Black Box Case Study 10: Abhijit Jain, Munir Mandviwalla, and Rajiv D. Banker, Government as a Catalyst: Can It Work Again with Wireless Internet Access? See supplemental readings Week 16 Apr. 28 Essay #4 TOPIC: Citizen Engagement Reading 14, Issue Networks and the Executive Establishment Case Study 14: Laura S. Sims, Revinventing School Lunch: Transforming a Food Policy into a Nutrition Policy See supplemental readings