PADP 6910 Study Guide - Fall 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Reading Company, Democracy Video Game, United States Congress
12 Oct 2018
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PADP 6910
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Fall 2018
PADP 6910 Public Administration & Democracy
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Lecture 1 : The Competing Values of Public Administration
I. Defining Public Administration
•The Implementation of Public Policies —> Administration & Law Enforcement
-large part of the role of pub. admin.
-“the process of translating public policies into results” (Kettl)
-limitation : ignores other aspects of policymaking (i.e. agenda setting, policy
formulation, policy adoption, & policy evaluation)
•The Practice of Governance
-the act of governing (policymaking, adjudicating, law enforcement, etc.)
-considers anything within the rubric of government policymaking & administration
(i.e. budgeting, evaluation, implementation, policymaking (formulation &
adoption), and advocacy/agenda setting)
II. Public Administration as ‘Politics by Other Means’
•Politics-Administration Dichotomy (Woodrow Wilson)
-argues its proper that wall of separation
•Bureaucratic Responsibility (Carl Friedrich) vs. Political Accountability (Herman
Finer)
-bureaucratic responsibility —> responsibility of public administration is to public
good
-political accountability —> public administrators are extensions of politicians and
thus are subject to political influence
•Principal-Agent Theory (Barry Mitnick, Terry Moe, Barry Weingast) —> a formal
approach to organizations that focuses on the relationship between principals and
agents
-principals : superiors who shape the behavior of agents
-President?
-Congress?
-Specialized Interests?
-Citizens/Voters?
-agents : those who carry out policies on behalf of supervisors (known as
principals)
III. Public Administration as ‘Effective Administration’
•Bureaucratic Expertise : Cultivation & Exercise of Expertise
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PADP 6910 Public Administration & Democracy
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-selective recruitment & retainment —> selecting those with particular expertise
-endogenous development —> incentivize/empower administrators to gain
additional training/education
-effective application of managerial & policy skills
•Bureaucratic Structure : Organizational Design
-Progressive Era (mechanist view) —> structure relied on hierarchy, specialization
(individual expertise), & span of control
-Modern Era (accountability view)—> centralization (power at top checks
everything), insulation (how responsible is the agency to the top—insulated from
pub. admin.), performance budgeting, & reinventing government/national
performance review
IV. Public Administration as ‘Distribution of Government Benefits & Costs’
•Equity & Fairness —> decisions have distributional effects
-Laswell (1936) : Who Get What? When? & How?
-Representative Bureaucracy : Does it Matter Who Are the Administrators?
-Fealty to Constitutional Principles : Rule of Law, Ethics, Public Service
V. Public Administration as ‘Performance Engineering’
•Reinventing Government (Osborne & Gabler)
1. Catalytic Government —> steering rather than rowing
2. Community-owned Government —> empowering rather than serving
3. Competitive Government —> injecting competition into service delivery
4. Mission-driven Government —> transforming rule-driven organizations
5. Results-oriented Government —> funding outcomes, not inputs
6. Customer-driven Government —> meeting the needs of the customer, not the
bureaucracy
7. Enterprising Government —> earring rather than spending (i.e. user fees,
selling of government rights & lands)
8. Anticipatory Government —> prevention rather than cure
9. Decentralized Government —> from hierarchy to participation & teamwork
10. Market-oriented Government —> leveraging change through the market
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Document Summary
Lecture 1 : the competing values of public administration: de ning public administration, the implementation of public policies > administration & law enforcement. Large part of the role of pub. admin. The process of translating public policies into results (kettl) Limitation : ignores other aspects of policymaking (i. e. agenda setting, policy formulation, policy adoption, & policy evaluation: the practice of governance. The act of governing (policymaking, adjudicating, law enforcement, etc. ) Considers anything within the rubric of government policymaking & administration (i. e. budgeting, evaluation, implementation, policymaking (formulation & adoption), and advocacy/agenda setting) Public administration as politics by other means": politics-administration dichotomy (woodrow wilson) Argues its proper that wall of separation: bureaucratic responsibility (carl friedrich) vs. Bureaucratic responsibility > responsibility of public administration is to public good. Principals : superiors who shape the behavior of agents. Agents : those who carry out policies on behalf of supervisors (known as principals)
