Lori K. Klein

Assistant Professor of Political Science

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Department of History and Social Sciences

2016 Presidential Primary Information

(Everything You Wanted to Know About How We Pick Presidential Candidates, But Were Afraid To Ask)

 

 

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POLS 304/504

Public Administration 

The National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration (NASPAA)  has some good advice for internships.

 

Syllabus Schedule     

PowerPoint Outlines, Handouts and Readings:

Unit 1, class 1 Definitions

 

 

Unit 1, class 2) Woodrow Wilson

 

Unit 1, class 3) Max Weber Bureaucracy

Unit 1, class 4 

Bear Article From Backpacker Magazine (This is the assigned reading)

Oh dear, a negative example of Incremental Change.

Yellowstone Park's Bear Education Video

Info on the 2015 Bear "Attack" Video

 

Unit 1, classes 5 and 6

Lecture notes

September 11th Case #2: Catastrophe and the Public Service

Skill or Luck?  How do you measure success? (2011)

Memri:
 
Instrumental 9/11 Montage

Test 1 Review

 

Unit 2,class 1) Two Philosophies (Pragmatism and Progressivism)

Unit 1, class 2) Red Cross Case

Unit 2, class 3) Incrementalism and  Implementation

Unit 1, class 4) Expectations Case

Unit 2, class 5)

 Information and Analysis

Link to Prof. Tufte's PowerPoint analysis

 

Unit 2, class 6)

From Challenger to Columbia

Test 2 Review

  Unit 3, classes 1 and 2) Human resources Personnel Lecture

Border Case Notes

The Child Migrant Crisis (A Vox)

Readings for Tuesday:

The Adventures of a Young Man as a Personnel Technician p1, p2, p3, p4, p5, p6, p7

The Peter Principle p1, p2,

Unit 3, classes 3 and 4) Planning

 

Unit 3 classes 5 and 6) Budgeting

 

The Concord Coalition is a great information resource for the National Debt Crisis.

NASBO's Fiscal Survey of the States 

Test 3 Review

Unit 4, classes 1,2 and 3) Ethics 1: Bible Background

 

Unit 4, classes 4 and 5)  Intergovernmental Relations

 

Unit 4, classes 7 and 8) Admin Law/ Open Government

Test 4 Review

Chris McNeal's Admin Law PPoint

 

Case Analysis Rubric  Interview Rubric And in other news, plagiarism is bad...