POL 342 Public Administration and Bureaucratic Politics
Considers such topics as the principles and practices of effective management and administration; the structure and expansion of the executive branch of the U.S. government; the nature of bureaucratic activity in American governmental institutions; agency-public employee relations; budgeting and fiscal administration; agency rule-making and enforcement powers; administrative law and other legal and constitutional restraints on agencies; proposals for bureaucratic reform; the bureaucratic response to selected public issues; the implications for public administration of American Founding principles and political developments in American history; and the evolution of American ideas about public administration.