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Introduction |
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Bureaucracy and Decision-making in Organizations |
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Bureaucracy and Decision-making in Organizations (cont.) |
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Special Session: Street-level Bureaucrats: The Case of Labor Inspection Services (Guest Speaker: Professor Andrew Schrank, Department of Sociology, University of New Mexico) |
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Bureaucracy and Decision-making in Organizations (cont.) |
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Two Cases |
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Inside Innovation in Organizations |
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Professionals and Front-line Workers |
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Special Session: Regulatory Agencies as Street-level Bureaucracies (Guest Speaker: Salo Coslovsky) |
Paper 1 due |
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Mistake-making, Learning, and Problem-solving in Organizations |
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Illumination From the Past: Two U.S. Cases |
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Government Contracting of Consultants and Consulting Firms |
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Inter-agency Coordination, Redundancy, or Competition? |
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Inter-agency Coordination, Redundancy, or Competition? (cont.) |
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Corruption, Clientelism and Politicians |
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Corruption, Clientelism and Politicians (cont.) |
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Private vs. Public Spheres |
Paper 2 due |
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Private vs. Public Spheres (cont.) |
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Reinventing Government, New Public Management and "Washington-consensus" Administrative Reform |
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Reinventing Government, New Public Management and "Washington-consensus" Administrative Reform (cont.) |
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Government, Civil Society and Nongovernment Organizations |
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Government, Civil Society and Nongovernment Organizations (cont.) |
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Government, Civil Society and Nongovernment Organizations (cont.) |
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State-society Synergies and Their Politics |
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State-society Synergies and Their Politics (cont.) |
Paper 3 due |
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Final Class: Wrap-up and Discussion |
Final paper due |