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Fall 03
University of Utah Master of Public Administration Program
Instructor: Prof. Rick Green, Director,
MPA Program
Office: OSH 214
Mail: Center for Public Administration & Policy, OSH
214, 260 So. Central Campus Dr., Un. of Utah, SLC, 84112
Email: rick.green@cppa.utah.edu
Web Address: www.cppa.utah.edu/~rg4280
Phone: 581-6781 ofc; 277-6861 hm
Office Hours: Mondays, 3:00-6:00pm or
by appointment. Please call for an appointment if
office hours are inconvenient. I am also happy to
correspond via email.
B. Guy Peters. The Future of Governing. 2nd
ed. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas. 2001. ISBN: 0-7006-1130-4 pbk.
David H. Rosenbloom & Robert S. Kravchuk. Public Administration: Understanding Management, Politics
& Law in the Public Sector, 5th ed. New
York: McGraw Hill, 2002. ISBN: 0-07-240192-3 pbk.
Jay M. Shafritz & Albert C. Hyde. Classics
of Public Administration, 4th ed. New York: Harcourt Brace
College Publishers, 1997. ISBN: 0-03-019382-6 pbk
Jay M. Shafritz & J. Steven Ott. Classics
of Organization Theory, 3rd ed. New
York: Harcourt College Publishers, 2001. ISBN: 0-15-506869-5
pbk.
E-Reserve Readings: A collection of readings and cases is available
through Marriott library electronic reserve web access at www.lib.utah.edu/circ/reserve/student.html.
Follow instructions on the Web or call the Help Desk at 581-6802 or 585-6727. (NOTE: You can access the collection from your home or
work computer after establishing a network ID. Your computer must have Adobe
Acrobat Reader, which can be downloaded free off of the web.)
Administrative Theory is a foundation course that addresses the theory
base for the field of public administration. It provides
a set of theoretical frameworks for the field that helps students interpret
and understand more about the real world of public administration. It will also aid students in drawing connections among
all the courses in the MPA program.
The course objectives
are as follows:
1.
To understand
the nature, scope, and history of the field of public administration, and
the variety of academic disciplines that have contributed to its theories
and practices.
2.
To understand
the competing values, traditions, and tenets that shape public administration
as a field of both theory and practice.
3.
To understand
and apply a variety of normative and theoretical perspectives to the issues
and practices of public administration.
4.
To become familiar
with a wide variety of theorists who have contributed directly and significantly
to the field of public administration.
1.
Students will
take two take-home essay examinations. Students
must answer 3 or 4 questions from a list of questions. The
questions will emphasize analysis and synthesis more than recall, and will
cover assigned readings and class discussions.
2.
Administrative/Policy
Analysis Paper: Students will
conduct in-depth research on two administrative theorists, and apply their
ideas and insights to an administrative or policy context of their choosing. “In-depth research” means that students should thoroughly
read at least one major work for which each author/theorist is known, and
should summarize the essential points of the work. Students
should also look at book reviews or other sources of scholarly criticism
of the theorists’ work to report on weaknesses or problems with their ideas. Then students should show how various insights or ideas
of the authors can be applied to organizational or policy settings with
which the student is familiar. If a student has no
administrative or policy experience, they should consult with me about how
to approach the analysis/application portion of the paper.
Grades are based on the following criteria: Class
Participation/Attendance = 20%; Exams = 25% each; Paper = 30%. Class participation
will be assessed through a combination of attendance and active, meaningful
contributions to class discussions. If you must miss
a class session, please give me advance notice, and make arrangements with
a fellow student to take notes or tape the class session. Missing class without
notice (beyond the drop/add period) will affect your grade immediately. Missing more than two class sessions (beyond the drop/add
period) with or without notice will affect your grade.
In academic and journalistic writing it is required that all sources
from which ideas and words are drawn be fully acknowledged and cited. It is also a basic principle that we should not represent
someone else’s work as our own. Therefore, make sure that you use quotation
marks to indicate use of someone else’s writing or words in your work, and
provide a full citation that identifies the author(s), title, publisher,
location of the publisher, year published, and page(s) at which the quotation
may be found. If you use WEB sources, make sure to
include a full WEB address for the specific work. When
in doubt about a proper citation form, consult a style manual, and be sure
to use one style consistently throughout the paper.
A citation should also be given when using someone else’s idea(s)
or concept(s), even if you are not quoting directly from their work. A common form for such a citation is to put the author
and year of his/her published work in parentheses at an appropriate place
in the sentence that employs the concept. Then put the full citation of
the work in the references (this is the “APA” format). Consult
Turabian or some other style manual for specifics on proper styles of citation.
Academic honesty also forbids the use of other students’ work as
your own, or even turning in a work written in an earlier course as though
it was newly written for this course. Honesty is so
important that severe sanctions exist in all universities and colleges for
cases of proven dishonesty. Expectations of honesty
are especially high for graduate students. Correspondingly,
abuses of academic honesty are not tolerated. If you
are in doubt as to a proper standard of honesty in a specific situation, please
consult your professor.
REASONABLE ACCOMMODATION
In accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), I offer
any student with a disability the opportunity to communicate with me privately
to discuss receiving reasonable accommodation. Such
accommodations will be afforded based on the specific disability and as
agreed in writing. This statement in no way asks
that students identify themselves publicly as having a disability; however,
a request for reasonable accommodation can only be granted if a student
makes his or her disability known to the instructor.
(Note on Classics Readings: Make sure you read the chapter introductions to each section of both classics texts. They provide important context for the readings that follow.)
Sept 15: Founding vs Jacksonian Administrative Theory.
Read: ROSENBLOOM
& KRAVCHUK, CHAPTERS 9 & 11; E-RESERVE, Crenson, chapter 3;
Case: (1) “Political Shoot-Out in the Lone Star
State”; (2) “A Question of Contamination”
Sept 22: Progressive Administrative Theory
Wilson & Goodnow
Rise of Complex Organizations
Bureaucratic Theory (The edifice
of Weber)
Normative Origins of the “Business
Model”
Scientific Mgt in Two Voices: Taylor
vs Follett
The “Traditional Model” of PA emerges.
Read: PETERS, chapter 1; CLASSICS OF PA, essays 1-5,
7; CLASSICS OF OT, essays 4 & 5;
Cases: (1) “Efficiency, Effectiveness, & Patronage”,
(2) “It’s Not Easy at the Top”; (3) “The
Good/Bad Administrator”
Sept 29: New Deal Administrative Theory (The Rise of the
Executive)
The Executive
Power and Public Administration
Rise of the Professional
State (Carl J. Friedrich)
The Principles
of Public Administration – POSDCORB
The Functions
of the Executive
Read: CLASSICS OF PA, Essays 6, 8-10, 19; E-RESERVE,
Rohr, Chap. 9; Cases: (1) “Are the Library
Trustees Obsolete?” (2) “State Agency Reorganization”
Oct 6: New Deal Administrative Theory, (Planting Seeds
of Discontent)
The Rise of Administrative Law
The Congressional Response to Exec-Centered PA
The Rise of Interest Group Liberalism
Quiet Conservatives Rebuild their Foundation
Read: E-RESERVE, Rohr, chap. 10; Rosenbloom, chap. 5;
Case: “Promulgating a Controversial
Administrative Order”
Mid-Term Take-home exam handed out. Due back by class time, Oct 20th.
Oct
13: The Human Relations
School
Emergence of Social Psychology of Motivation
Hierarchies of
Needs (Maslow, Herzberg)
Self-fulfilling prophecies (MacGregor)
Organizational
Psychology of Fear (Thompson)
Alternative Models of Motivation
Read: CLASSICS OF PA, essays 14 & 21; CLASSICS OF
OT, essays 15, 18-19; E-RESERVE
Cases: (1) “A Problem of Motivation”; (2) “An Authoritarian
Approach to Mgt”; (3) “Some Counselors are More Equal than Others”; (4)
“What’s a Single Mom to Do?” (5) “The Far Side of Fifty”
Oct 20: Leadership Theory
Selznick, Fiedler, Blake &
Mouton, Burns, motivation theories, etc.
Read: CLASSICS OF PA: 18, 26; E-RESERVE, Selznick,
chaps 1-2; Burns, chap.1; Fiedler &
Garcia, chap.2; Cases: (1) “Professionalism &
Organizational Values”; (2) “The Disctinction Between Leadership & Management”;
(3) “No More Nittany Lions,”
Oct 27: Management Science & Decision Making
Challenging Weber’s Theory of Bureaucracy
The edifice built by Chester Barnard & Herbert
Simon
Read: CLASSICS OF PA, essays 11, 12, 16, 28; CLASSICS
OF OT, essays 9, 13, 46, 47, 49;
ROSENBLOOM, chapter 5. Cases: (1) “Politics, User
Fees, and Barracudas”;
(2) “Organizational Politics and Decision Making”
Nov 3: Systems Theory of Complex Organizations & Networks
(org sociology & socio-technical systems)
J.D. Thompson (Org psychology;
levels and types of managerial work)
Karl Weick, social-psychology of
organizing
Hult & Walcot, governance structures
Read: ROSENBLOOM & KRAVCHUK,
chapter 4; PETERS, chapter 4; CLASSICS OF PA: #s 26,
CLASSICS OF OT, #s 12, 20-30, 48.
Video: “Anatomy of an Oil Spill”
Nov 10: Re-emergence of Politically-Based Administrative
Theory
Waldo, Appleby
Pluralist Administrative Theory
Lindblom, muddling
through
Lowi, interest
group liberalism
Wildavsky, budgeting
politics
Selsznick, politics of cooptation
Allison, pluralist models of decisionmaking
Read: CLASSICS OF PA, #s 15,
17, 22, 29, 30, 36, 38, 39, 41; CLASSICS OF OT, #s 31-35;
E-RESERVE, Case: “Public Health in Rhododendran
County”.
Nov 17: Re-emergence continued:
The New Public Administration Movement
The Blacksburg Manifesto
Feminist Interpretations of PA
Read: PETERS, chapter 3-4; CLASSICS OF PA, #s 32-34,
46, 48; CLASSICS OF OT, # 38; E-
RESERVE, Cases: (1) “A Jail in City Center”
Nov 24: Theme I: Entrepreneurial Administrative Theory and the Resurgence
of the Business Model
The New Public Management School.
Read: CLASSICS OF PA, #s 45, 47, 50, 51; PETERS TEXT:
chapters 2 & 5; Cases: (1) “A Day in the Life of Tomorrow’s Public Administrator”;
(2) “Entrepreneurial Government: The Morning After”; (3) “Public Management
Reform – Reinventing State Government” (4) "Blueberries and Public Administration"
Dec 1: Reform and the Sublimation of Politics in Organizational
Culture
Read: CLASSICS OF OT, #s 36-43; E-RESERVE, Cases: Ott,
Appendix to Chapter 1.
Theme II: Pulling it all together.
Read: PETERS, chapters 6-7; E-RESERVE,
“Managing Change in Workingville”
Take Home Exam handed out. Due
in MPA office by 6:00pm, Dec. 8.
E-Reserve Readings/Cases
A.J.Anderson, “Are the
Library Trustees Obsolete?” Library Journal, Sept. 1, 1992
Adams, Bill R., Glen W. Sparrow, Ronald L. Ballard. "A Jail in City
Center," in Managing Local Government: Cases in Decisionmaking. James
Banovetz, ed. Washington, D.C. ICMA 1990: 93-102
Burns, James MacGreggor. “The Power of Leadership,” in Leadership,
chap.1. New York: Harper & Row, 1978: chapter 1: 9-28.
Doe, John. "Politics, User Fees, and Barracudas,"
in Managing Local Government: Cases in Decisionmaking. James Banovetz,
ed. Washington, D.C.: ICMA 1990: 76-92.
Electronic Hallway Network. “A Change of Management.” Public Service Curriculum Exchange: University of Washington, www.hallway.org.
Electronic Hallway Network.
“Public Health in Rhododendron County.” Public Service Curriculum Exchange:
University of Washington, www.hallway.org.
Electronic Hallway Network. "State Agency Reorganization."
Public Service Curriculum Exchange: University of Washington, www.hallway.org.
Fieldler, Fred E., and
Joseph E. Garcia. New Approaches to Effective Leadership: Cognitive Resources
and Organizational Performance. New York: John Wiley & Sons 1987:
13-22.
Green, Richard T. “Managing
Change in Workingville” unpublished scenario.
Green, Richard T. “Scenario:
Public Management Reform – Reinventing State Government. Unpublished scenario.
Gurwitt, Robert. “Entrepreneurial
Government: The Morning After,” in Governing: The Magazine of States
and Localities. May 1994:34-40.
Lerner, Alan W. and John
Wanat. “Professionalism & Organizational Values,” Scenario #4, in Public Administration: Scenarios in
Public Management. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall
1993.
Lerner, Alan W. and John
Wanat. “The Distinction between Leadership &
Management,” Scenario #12, in Public Administration:
Scenarios in Public Management. Englewood Cliffs,
NJ: Prentice-Hall 1993.
Lerner, Alan W. and John
Wanat. “Organizational Politics & Decision
Making,” Scenario #14, in Public Administration:
Scenarios in Public Management. Englewood Cliffs,
NJ: Prentice-Hall 1993.
Lerner, Alan W. and John
Wanat. “Promulgating a Controversial Administrative
Order,” Scenario #15, in Public Administration: Scenarios in Public Management. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall 1993.
Meyer, C. Kenneth, and
Charles H. Brown. “It’s Not Easy at the Top,” case #1, in Practicing
Public Management: A Casebook, 2nd ed. New
York: St. Martins Press 1989: 15-17
Meyer, C. Kenneth, and
Charles H. Brown. “The Far Side of Fifty,” case #8, in Practicing Public
Management: A Casebook, 2nd ed. New
York: St. Martins Press 1989: 40-43
Meyer, C. Kenneth, and
Charles H. Brown. “The Good/Bad Administrator,” case #15, in Practicing
Public Management: A Casebook, 2nd ed.
New York: St. Martins Press 1989: 75-78
Meyer, C. Kenneth, and
Charles H. Brown. “An Authoritarian Approach to Management,” case #19,
in Practicing Public Management: A Casebook, 2nd ed. New York: St. Martins Press 1989: 90-92.
Meyer, C. Kenneth, and
Charles H. Brown. “A Question of Contamination,” case #20, in Practicing
Public Management: A Casebook, 2nd ed.
New York: St. Martins Press 1989: 94-95.
Meyer, C. Kenneth, and
Charles H. Brown. “A Problem of Motivation,” case #22, in Practicing
Public Management: A Casebook, 2nd ed. New
York: St. Martins Press 1989: 103-105.
Ott, J. Steven. “Appendix
to Chapter 1,” in The Organizational Culture Perspective. Chicago,
Ill: Dorsey Press, 1989: 12-19.
Pisciotte, Joe P. "Efficiency, Effectiveness, and Patronage," in Managing
Local Government: Cases in Decisionmaking. James Banovetz, ed. Washington,
D.C.: ICMA 1990: 66-75.
Reeves, Zane T. “Some Counselors are More Equal than Others,” #3 in Cases
in Public Human Resources Management.” Itasca, Ill: F.E. Peacock Publishers,
1999: 19-24.
Reeves, Zane T. “No More
Nittany Lions,” #19 in Cases in Public Human Resources Management.”
Itasca, Ill: F.E. Peacock Publishers, 1999: 41-50.
Reeves, Zane T. “What’s
a Single Mom to Do?,” #29 in Cases in Public Human Resources Management.”
Itasca, Ill: F.E. Peacock Publishers, 1999: 187-193.
Reeves, Zane T. “Political
Shootout in the Lone Star State,” #19 in Cases in Public Human Resources
Management.” Itasca, Ill: F.E. Peacock Publishers, 1999: 127-132.
Selznick, Phillip. Leadership
in Administration. New York: Harper & Row, 1957: chaps 1&2:
1-64.
Starling,
Grover. “A Day in the Life of Tomorrow’s Public Administrator,” in Managing
the Public Sector, 4th ed. Belmont
CA: Wadsworth Publishing, 1993, pp.2-8
Storing, Herbert A. “The
Small Republic,” and “Conclusion” in What the Anti-federalists were
FOR: The Political Thought of the Opponents of the Constitution.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 1981: pp.15-23, 71-76.
Rohr, John A. “Executive
Supremacy: The Brownlow Report” Chapter 9, in To Run a Constitution:
The Legitimacy of the Administrative State. Lawrence, KS: University
Press of Kansas, 1986: 135-153.
Rohr, John A. “Individual
Rights: The Attorney General’s Report,” Chapter 10, in To Run a Constitution:
The Legitimacy of the Administrative State. Lawrence, KS: University
Press of Kansas, 1986: 154-70.
Rosenbloom, David H.
“Legislative-Centered Public Administration,” Chapter 5, in Building a
Legislative-Centered Public Administration: Congress and the Administrative
State, 1946-1999. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama
Press, 2000: 131-155.