Context of Public Administration

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Week 2: Service and Empathy

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Week 5: WA State Goverment

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Week 1: Why Public Service

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Flyover Nation, victim culture, rural areas feeling forgotten, less government, Christian Right

Radical Dharma, tiptoeing around race, whitness in our culture, empowerment from within

Johnson Chapter 1Essential public purposes, dimensions of government complexity, tools of policy, types of definitions of PA, efficiency vs. effectiveness

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Administrative decisionmaking

rational vs. incremental

types of political officials: climbers, conservers, zealots, advocates, statesman

empathy vs. sympathy, compassion fatigue, watered down empathy leading to distrust

analytical methods

Week 3: Federal Goverment

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Chevron Doctrine, Civil Service Reform Act, Pendleton Act, Plenary Power, Enumerations clause, needs vs. rights,

Classic PA vs. Challenge PA

Federal decision paper, adding MENA ethnic category to 2020 U.S census, Office of Budget and Management

Week 4: Tribal government

History of Western relations with Native Peoples

Sovereignty

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Treaties have never been annulled

Centennial Accord

Culturally responsive consulatation

Legislative, executive, judicial

Agencies lead by governor-appointed executives

Agencies under authority of a board, council, or commission

29 WA recognized tribes

Week 6: City and County Governments and Managing Contracted Services

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RCW vs. WAC

Insourcing and Outsourcing

Perhaps non-profits shouldn't always be trusted over for-profit in contract delivery

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Stages of contract management: deciding whether to "make or by" services, selecting vendors to produce them, deploying monitoring tool for overseeing implementation

Week 7: Non-profits and Partnerships

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Principal Agent Theory

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Adverse Selection

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Forms of Public Private relationships

pure privitization

vouchers

contracting

public/private partnerships

faith-based orgs

When contracting is preferred: decision to contract, framing contract, choosing vendor, monitoring and evaluation performance

Week 8: Why PA? Theory and Praxis

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Ideology

Paradigm

Epistemology

Theory

Lenses we use to aquire knowledge and world view

Comprehensive vision

Speculation

Thought patterns dominant in form and substance

Leadership readings for week 1 of second quarter

Inspiring Vision

Teachability

Leadership vs. management

Learning from setbacks or percieved losses

State Decision Paper: REAL I.D