1. The search for the scope and purpose of public administration Reading 1.1: Introduction The study of administration - Woodrow Wilson Reading 1.2: Introduction The study of public administration in the United States - Richard J. Stillman II Case Study 1: Introduction The blast in centralia nº 5: A mine disaster no one stopped - John Bartlow Martin Part one - The pattern of public administration in America: Its environment, structure, and people 2. The formal structure: the concept of bureaucracy Reading 2: Introduction Bureaucracy - Max Weber Case study 2: introduction How kristin died - George Lardner Jr. 3. The general environment: the concept of ecology Reading 3: Introduction The ecology of public administration - John M. Gaus Case study 3: Introduction Dr. Helene Gayle and the AIDS epidemic - Norma M. Riccucci 4. The political environment: the concept of administrative power Reading 4: Introduction Power and administration - Norton E. Long Case study 4: Introduction The columbia accident - Maureen Hogan Casamayou 5. Intergovernmental relations(IGR): the concept of IGR as interdependence, complexity, and bargaining Reading 5: Introduction American intergovernmental relations: an overview - Laurence J. O'Toole Jr. Case study 5: Introduction Wichita confronts contamination - Susan Rosegrant 6. Internal dynamics: the concept of the informal group Reading 6: introduction Hawthorne and the Western Electric Company - Elton Mayo Case study 6: introduction American ground: unbuilding the World Trade Center - William Langewiesche 7. Key decision makers inside public administration: the concept of competing bureaucratic subsystems Reading 7: introduction Inside public bureaucracy - Richard J. Stillman II Case study 7: introduction The decision to go to war with Iraq - James P. Pfiffner Part two: The multiple functions of public administrators: their major activities, responsabilities, and roles 8. Decision making: the concept of incremental choice Reading 8: introduction The science of "Muddling Through" - Charles E. Lindblom Case study 8: introduction The move disaster - Jack H. Nagel 9. Administrative communication: the concept of its professional centrality Reading 9: introduction Administrative communication(Or How to Make All the Rest Work): The concept of its professional centrality - James L. Garnett Case study 9: introduction The shootings at Columbine High School: the law enforcement response -Susan Rosegrant 10. Executive management: the concept of effective public organizations Reading 10: introduction Galloping elephants: developing elements of a theory of effective government organizations - Hal G. Rainey and Paula Steinbauer Case study 10: introduction The lessons of ValuJet - William Langewiesche 11. Public personnel motivation: the concept of the public service culture Reading 11: introduction The public service culture - Lois Recascino Wise Case study 11: introduction Who brought Bernardine healy down? Deborah Sontag 12. Public budgeting: the concept of budgeting as political choice Reading 12: introduction The politics of public budgets - Irene S. Rubin Case study 12: introduction Wisconsin's budget deficit - James K. Conant 13. Implementation: the concept of an ambiguity-conflict model Reading 13: introduction Synthesizing the implementation literature: the ambiguity-conflict model of policy implementation - Richard E. Matland Case study 13: introduction They had a plan - Michael Elliott Part three: Enduring and unresolved relationships: central value questions, issues, and dilemmas of contemporary public administration 14. The relationship between politics and administration: the concept of issue networks Reading 14: introduction Issue networks and the executive establishment - Hugh Heclo Case study 14: introduction Reinventing school lunch: transforming a food policy into a nutrition policy - Laura S. Sims 15. The relationship between bureaucracy and the public interest: the concept of public sector deregulation Reading 15: introduction Bureaucracy and the public interest - James Q. Wilson Case study 15: introduction The human genome project - W. Henry Lambright 16. The relationship between ethics and public administration: the concept of competing ethical obligations Reading 16: introduction Public administration and ethics: a prologue to a preface Dwight Waldo Case study 16: introduction The case of the Butterfly Ballot - Robert S. Montjoy and Christa Daryl Slaton