1. Introduction Definitions and Concepts

• What is Public Administration
• Bureaucracy
• PA in the 21st Century
• Approaches to the study of PA

• The Structure of the American Administrative State

• Functions
• Electoral Process
• Changing nature of organization

• Management
• Personnel
• Budgeting
• Decision making
• Policy analysis and evaluation

• Bureaucracy and Constitutionalist
• Congress and the Administrative State
• Judicial involvement in the administrative process
• President and the Bureaucracy

5.. Bureaucracy and Politics

• Administrative Power as Political Power
• . Bureaucratic Power and Its Causes

• Public Administration's Moral Component
• Public Administration and the Public
• Public Administration and Democratic Constitutionalism
• Accountability and Ethics
• The Future

Readings  Chapters 1,2,3
 
 

 
 
Readings Chapter 4

 
 
 
 
Reading Chapters 6,7,8,9,11
 

 
 Readings Chapter 10, 
 
 

 
Reading Chapter 11,14 
 

Readings Chapter 5
 12.
 
 
 

Chapter 7