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Spring 2014 | PA 5012 Section 001: The Politics of Public Affairs (51841)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F or Audit
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
Delivery Medium
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
UMTC, West Bank
Hubert H Humphrey Center 25
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Stages of policy making from agenda setting to implementation. Role/behavior of political institutions (courts, legislatures, executives, bureaucracies) and citizens, social movements, and interest groups. Concepts of political philosophy. Theories of the state. Team taught, interdisciplinary course. Small discussion sections.
- Class Description:
- The critical issues addressed in public policymaking involve political and moral choices, along with analytic and administrative aspects. What is desirable from the perspective of policy analysis and policy expertise is not always what is legislatively feasible in the face of established institutions and multiple and competing interests and values. The Politics of Public Affairs a course in which these choices?and the core values of public service and good governance informing them?are confronted directly. The purpose of this course is to illuminate the obstacles and opportunities that shape the development of public policy in the United States. Our attention to the values and choices central in policymaking will proceed in three stages. The initial weeks comprise an overview of public policy in the contemporary U.S. The second segment takes up the making of public policy, addressing how complex systems of governance actually function. Along the way we'll trace some of the principal tensions in democratic public policymaking. The third segment addresses policy-making themes and processes in terms of several specific policy areas.
- Grading:
- 20% Midterm Exam
20% Final Exam
45% Reports/Papers
15% Class Participation
- Class Format:
- 60% Lecture
10% Film/Video
30% Discussion
- Workload:
- 25 Pages Writing Per Term
2 Exam(s)
2 Paper(s)
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/51841/1143
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 21 April 2014
Spring 2014 | PA 5012 Section 002: The Politics of Public Affairs (56426)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F or Audit
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
Delivery Medium
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
Tue,
Thu 01:00PM - 02:15PM
UMTC, West Bank
Hubert H Humphrey Center 25
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Stages of policy making from agenda setting to implementation. Role/behavior of political institutions (courts, legislatures, executives, bureaucracies) and citizens, social movements, and interest groups. Concepts of political philosophy. Theories of the state. Team taught, interdisciplinary course. Small discussion sections.
- Class Description:
- Stages of policy making from agenda setting to implementation. Role/behavior of political institutions (courts, legislatures, executives, bureaucracies) and citizens, social movements, and interest groups. Concepts of political philosophy. Theories of the state. Team taught, interdisciplinary course. Small discussion sections.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/56426/1143
- Past Syllabi:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/syllabi/jbsoss_PA5012_Spring2019.pdf (Spring 2019)
http://classinfo.umn.edu/syllabi/jbsoss_PA5012_Spring2016.doc (Spring 2016)
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 21 January 2014
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