Public Administration Concepts

What, There's a Test in the Testing Center?
Test One 2011

 Week One What is Public Administration and Why Should I Care?
-- What's the big deal about working for the government?
 Lecture: Defining PA – What it IS, What it Isn't
 Lecture: Woodrow Wilson, the Father of American Public Administration
 Readings
 Definitions lists on pages 2-3
 Three Orthogonal Lists by Graham Allison (handout)
 Reading on Public Administration by Woodrow Wilson in Stillman
 Working for the Government is Cool by Garth Cook (handout)

 Week Two The Study of Public Administration—
 Lecture: Max Weber and the Beauty of Bureaucracy
 Readings
 Reading on Bureaucracy by Max Weber in Stillman
 Case - Yellowstone Bears from Backpacker Magazine (handout)

 Week Three
September 11 and Public Administration
 Case – Catastrophe and Public Service by Cohen (handout)
 Case - American Ground: Unbuilding the World Trade Center in Stillman

 Week Four Progressives, Politics and Pragmatism—
 Lecture: Progressivism and Pragmatism, Two Philosophies that Shape American Public Administration
 Readings
Article on Pragmatism by Patricia Shields (handout)
 One pager on pragmatism by Lisa Zanetti (handout)
 Case - Who Brought Bernadine Healy Down? in Stillman

 Week Five
Policy Development and the Continuing Policy Cycle – Incrementalism and Implementation
 Reading 8 by Charles Lindblum in Stillman, p. 215.
 Case - Expectations in Stillman

I’d Study if I Were You!
 Readings:
 There are always questions on the test that have not been covered in class, but are a part of the text of your readings
 PowerPoint Outlines
 On the Website. (http://www.harding.edu/lklein/Public%20Admin%20Page.htm ) A very effective back-up for your notes.
 Lectures:
 Be familiar enough with your lectures on Wilson and Weber, progressives and pragmatism, incrementalism and implementation to fill in blanks or answer detailed