FUNDAMENTALS OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
(PA 301 – No. 90788)
Time: Thursdays 3:30-6:30 pm Fall 2006
Place: Hills 017
Professor Frank Bryan
Tel: 656-0570
Office: Room 503 Old Mill Building
Office Hours: Tuesdays/Thursdays 8-9:30 a.m. or by appointment
Web Page: http://www.uvm.edu/~fbryan
WebCT: http://uvm.edu/webct
Email: frank.bryan@uvm.edu
Students are asked to check their UVM email on a regular basis.
Grading System:
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Class Participation |
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Paper |
40% |
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Final Exam |
30% |
Readings:
Charles T. Goodsell, The Case for Bureaucracy (4th Edition)
ISBN: 1-56802-907-1 CQ Press
David Rosenbloom and Robert Kravchuk, Public Administration (6th Edition)
ISBN: 0072867957 McGraw-Hill
Jay Shafritz, Albert Hyde, and Sandra Parkes, Classics of Public Administration (5th Ed)
ISBN: 0155062603 Thomson Wadsworth
LECTURES
PART I: SETTING THE BOUNDARIES
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August 31 |
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The Ecology of
Public Administration |
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Classics: Frederickson, p. 315 |
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September 7 |
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Studying Public
Administration |
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Goodsell: The Case for Bureaucracy Rosenbloom, Chapter 1 Classics: Wilson, p. 22 Rosenbloom, p. 446 |
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September 14 |
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Bureaucratic Power
in the Administrative State |
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Rosenbloom, Chapter 2 Classics: Appleby, p. 131 Kaufman, p. 285 Allison, p. 396 |
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PART II: ORGANIZATION |
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September 21 |
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Organizational
Theory: Max Weber and the “Ideal Type” |
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Rosenbloom, Chapter 4 |
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Classics: Weber, p. 50 Taylor, p. 43 Simon, p. 136 Ott, p. 487 |
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September 28 |
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The Geography of
Organization |
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Rosenbloom, Chapter 3 Classics: Lipsky, p. 314 |
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October 5 |
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Organizational
Systems |
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Rosenbloom, Chapter 9 Classics: Gulick, p. 90 Barnard, p. 104 Katz and Kahn, p. 206 |
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PART III: MANAGEMENT |
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October 12 |
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Motivation: Knowing
Your XYZ’s |
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Rosenbloom, Chapter 5 Classics: Maslow, p. 123 McGregor, p. 171 |
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October 19 |
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Line, Staff and
Human Resources Management |
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Classics: Krislow, p. 350 Thomas, p. 494 |
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October 26 |
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Bureaucratic
Ethics: An Oxymoron? |
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Readings: |
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Rosenbloom, Chapters 10, 12 Classics: Thompson, p. 458 Mosher, p. 343 |
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PART IV:
PROCESS |
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November 2 |
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Decision Making,
Budgeting, and Information Systems |
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Readings: |
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Rosenbloom, Chapters 6, 7, 8 Classics: Lindblom, p. 177 Wildavsky, p. 271 Rivlin, p. 328 |
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November 9 |
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Student
Presentations |
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November 16 |
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Student
Presentations |
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November 23 |
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Thanksgiving Recess
(No Class) |
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November 30 |
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Student
Presentations |
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December 7 |
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Final Exam and
Paper Due |