American Public Admin

Catalog description

This course is about the bureaucratic process and the implementation of public policy. Students will study the operations of the executive branch of government, specifically those who work behind the scenes to implement the policies and administer the programs that Congress passes. They will explore the relationship between civil servants and elected public officials, the structure of public organization, and the meaning of Congressional oversight. Students will study the politics of the administrative state and the constraints that both politics and constitutional structure impose on the administrative state, and will come to understand that it is through administration that ordinary citizens come into contact with their government on a daily basis. (Previously NJCU Course INTD-512)