Comparative Public Administration PAP 6130, Section A. Professor Frank Ohemeng, PhD Winter, 2011

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1 Faculté des sciences sociales Faculty of Social Sciences Comparative Public Administration PAP 6130, Section A Professor Frank Ohemeng, PhD Winter, 2011 Class schedule: COURSE OUTLINE Day: Tuesdays, hours: 17:30-20:30. Building & Room Number: DMS, Room 9143 Professor s office hours: Mondays, hours: 15:00 17:00 Office: DMS Office Phone: , ext [email protected] Any question(s) or query(ies) sent by will receive a response within two business days or during the following class if taken place within the 48 hours following receipt of the . Note that the professor reserves the right not to answer an if the level of language used is inadequate. On virtual campus: Yes OFFICIAL COURSE DESCRIPTION The course attempts to help students: (a) Familiarize themselves with the major features and organizations of public administration in a comparative perspective; (b) How and why public administration systems differ; and (c) What lessons may be learned form public administration reforms across the globe

2 GENERAL COURSE OBJECTIVES To understand why countries differ (in terms of administrative structures, policy styles, procedures etc.) and how countries can learn from each other. Enhance understanding of civil systems in a comparative perspective To encourage the development of analytical and critical skills and written and oral communication skills in making comparisons and learning lessons from comparative experience On completion of the course, students should be able to: Demonstrate an understanding of comparative public administration as a subject of study; Demonstrate an awareness of the major differences between the administrative systems of developed and developing countries; Demonstrate an awareness of the benefits and problems of drawing lessons from the experience of other countries; To become more familiar with the factual and interacting routes of reform in national administrative systems. TEACHING METHODS The course is organized in a seminar form. After the introductory week, the rest of the sessions will be run as seminars (not lectures) in which one or two students will be responsible (depending on the number of students in the class). This means that attendance and participation are vital. Students must do all the required readings before coming to class in order to fully participate in the discussion of the materials. Note that attendance is compulsory and will be taken in class. ASSESSMENT METHODS The course evaluation consists of three components: Class presentation and participation 25% Three short papers (15% each) 45% Final Exam (Take Home Exam) 30% - 2 -

3 Required Course Texts: Ferrell Heady (2001) Public Administration: A Comparative Perspective, 6 th edition, Boca Raton: CRC Press Christopher Pollitt & Geert Boukaert (2004) Public Management Reform: A Comparative Analysis, 2nd edition, New York: Oxford Other Relevant Readings: Chandler, J. A (ed.) (2001) Comparative Public Administration, London: Routledge Peters, B. G. and J. Pierre (2003) Handbook of Public Administration, London: Sage Farazmand, Ali (ed.) (2001) Handbook of Comparative and Development Public Administration, New York: Marcel Dekker Pierre, Jon (ed.) (1995) Bureaucracy in the Modern State: An Introduction to Comparative Public Administration. Aldershot: Edward Elgar Halligan, John. (ed.) (2003) Civil Service Systems in Anglo-American countries, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Aucoin, Peter (1995) The New Public Management: Canada in Comparative Perspective, Montréal: Institute for Research on Public Policy Bekke, H., Perry, J. L., and Toonen T. A. J. (eds.) (1996) Civil Service Systems in Comparative Perspective, Bloomington: Indiana University Press Adamolekun, Ladipo (ed.) (1999) Public Administration in Africa: Main Issues and Selected Country Studies, Westview Press Levy, Brian and Sahr Kpundeh (eds.) (2004) Building State Capacity in Africa: New Approaches, Emerging Lessons, Washington D.C: World Bank Institute Rondinelli, Dennis A. and G. Shabbir Cheema (eds.) (2003) Reinventing Government for the Twenty-first Century: State Capacity in a Globalizing Society, West Hartford, CT: Kumarian Press Stiglitz, Joseph E (2002) Globalization and Its Discontents, NY: Norton. Turner, Mark M. and David Hulme (1997) Governance, Administration, and Development: Making the State Work, West Hartford, CT: Kumarian Press Kettl, Don (2000) The Global Public Management Revolution: A Report on the Transformation of Governance. Washington, D.C: Brookings Institute Jreisat, Jamil E. (2002) Comparative Public Administration and Policy, Boulder, CO: Westview - 3 -

4 Richard, Batley and Larbi G. (2004) The Changing Role of Government: The Reform of Public Services in Developing Countries, Palgrave MacMillan. Tummala, Krishna K. (2003) Comparative Bureaucratic Systems, Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books Goldfinch, Shaun F. and Joe L. Wallis (eds.) (2009) International Handbook of Public Management Reform, Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Policy on language quality and late submissions Class and Seminar attendance are necessary to successfully complete this course. Seminar attendance is mandatory. Students must attend not less than 90% of the seminar during the semester. Please note that attendance will be taken during seminars. You will also be judged on your writing abilities. It is recommended to take the appropriate measures to avoid mistakes. You will be penalized between 5% to 15%, at the professor s discretion. Late submissions are not tolerated. Exceptions are made only for illness or other serious situations deemed as such by the professor. There will be a penalty for late submissions. University regulations require all absences from exams and all late submissions due to illness to be supported by a medical certificate. The Faculty reserves the right to accept or reject the reason put forth if it is not medical. Reasons such as travel, work and errors made while reading the exam schedule are not usually accepted. In the event of an illness or related complications, only the counseling service and the campus clinic (located at 100 Marie-Curie) may issue valid certificates to justify a delay or absence. Each day of late submission results in a penalty of 5% (weekends not excluded). E- mailed or faxed Assignments will not be accepted in any form or shape. Please advice or notify me professor as soon as possible if a religious holiday or event forces your absence during an evaluation. Essay Papers: Students are to write three research-based papers (see page 10). These papers must be submitted on or before class on the due dates. The papers should be written as a normal essay paper with research question(s), thesis/hypothesis, analysis, and conclusion. Students are not to consult any material(s) for this work, except what is in this outline. Each paper should not be less than 1800 words or more than 2000 words, doublespaced, excluding bibliography. Word count should be dated at the end of the paper - 4 -

5 Final Examination (Take Home): The final exams will be in the form of a take home exam. Questions will be handed to students on the last day of class and students will have three weeks to submit the exams. The length of the exams will be discussed at a later date. Absence or Late Submission Due to Illness: Please note that any absence not related to a medical reason (need to provide doctor s note) will count as absence from class and will be marked accordingly. If for any reason you miss the deadline for the submission of the term paper, a doctor s note is required. Any medical certificate from your personal physician must be validated by the University of Ottawa Health Services. Cell Phones, Pagers, and IPods, etc: Please ensure that your cell phones, pagers, and ipods are turned off when in class. Anything else just isn t fair to the rest of the class or to the professor. If you bring a laptop to class, I am expecting that you are actually taking notes and not playing games or doing something that is not related to the class Disability: Special arrangements may be made for students with disabilities. If you need assistance because of disability, please contact the instructor as soon as possible. You must also obtain a letter from Access Service indicating the nature of the disability and the kind of assistance needed. Access Service is located at 85 University St, Room 339 and can be reached by phone at (613) or by at [email protected]. Grading Scale: The following grading scale will be employed in the course. All term work will receive a percentage grade, which will then be weighted according to each assignment s value and translated into an overall letter grade for the course: Letter Grade Percentage Scale Numerical Value Definition A % 10 Exceptional A % 9 Excellent A % 8 Excellent B % 7 Very good B % 6 Very good C % 5 Good C % 4 Good D % 3 Passable D % 2 Passable E % 1 Failure F Failure INC Incomplete (Failure) ABS Absent (Failure) - 5 -

6 COURSE SCHEDULE Week One: 11 th January 2011: Introduction of Course: Introduction to course content, explanation of assignment, and course expectations Week Two: 18 th January 2011: The Question of Comparison Todd Landman (2003) Issues and Methods in Comparative Politics: An Introduction, 2 nd Edition, New York: Routledge, Chapters One and Two Giovanni Sartori (1991) Comparing and Miscomparing, Journal of Theoretical Politics, vol.3, no. 3, pp Joel D. Aberbach, Bert A. Rockman (1999) Comparative Administration: Methods, Muddles and Models in Moshe Maor and Jan-Erik Lane (eds.) Comparative Public Administration, Aldershot: Ashgate B. Guy Peters (1994) Theory and Methodology in the Study of Comparative Public Administration, in Randall Baker (ed.) Comparative Public Management: Putting U.S. Public Policy and Implementation in Context, Westport, Conn.: Praeger Week Three: 25 th January 2011: Introduction to Comparative Public Administration Ferrel Heady (2001), Chapters One and Two Jamil E. Jreisat (2005) Comparative Public Administration Is Back In, Prudently, Public Administration Review, Vol. 65, no. 2, pp Marleen Brans (2007) Comparative Public Administration: From General Theory to General Frameworks, in B. Guy Peters and Jon Pierre (eds.) The Handbook of Public Administration, London: Sage Monty van Wart and Joseph N. Cayer (2006) Comparative Public Administration: The Search for Theories, in Eric E. Otenyo and Nancy S. Lind (eds.) Comparative Public Administration - The Essential Readings, Amsterdam: Oxford: Elsevier JAI Jon Pierre (1995), "Comparative Public Administration: The State of the Art", in Jon Pierre (eds.), Bureaucracy in the Modern State: An Introduction to Comparative Public Administration, Edward Elgar, Aldershot, Week Four: 1 st February 2011: Development Administration and Management G. F. Grant (2006) The Concept of Development Administration, in Eric E. Otenyo and Nancy S. Lind (eds.) Comparative Public Administration - The Essential Readings, Amsterdam: Oxford: Elsevier JAI Derrick Brinkerhoff and Jennifer Brinkerhoff (2006) International Development Management: Definitions, Debates and Dilemmas, in Ali Farazmand & Jack Pinkowski - 6 -

7 (eds.) Handbook of Globalization, Governance, and Public Administration, New York: CRC Press O. P. Dwivedi (1999) Development Administration: An Overview, in Keith M. Henderson and O. P. Dwivedi (eds.) Bureaucracy and the Alternatives in World Perspectives, London: Macmillan Willy McCourt and Nilima Gulrajani (2010) The future of development management: Introduction to the special issue, Public Administration and Development, vol. 30, no. 2, pp Alan Thomas (1996) What is Development Management? Journal of International Development, vol. 8, no. 1, pp David Hirschmann (1999) Development Management versus Third World Bureaucracies: A Brief History of Conflicting Interests, Development and Change, vol. 30, no. 2, Week Five: 8 th February 2011: Administration in More Developed Nations I Ferrel Heady (2007) Chapter Five Jos C. N. Raadschelders and Mark R. Rutgers (1996) The Evolution of Civil Service Systems, in H. A. G. M. Bekke, J. L. Perry and T. A. J. Toonen (eds) Civil Service Systems in Comparative Perspective, Indiana University Press Jacques Chevalier (2006) Public administration in statist France, in Eric E. Otenyo and Nancy S. Lind (eds.) Comparative Public Administration - The Essential Readings, Amsterdam: Oxford: Elsevier JAI Week Six: 15 th February 2011: Administration in More Developed Nations II Ferrel Heady (2001), Chapter Six John Halligan (2003) Anglo-American Civil Service Systems: an Overview, in John Halligan (ed) Civil Service Systems in Anglo-American Countries, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar O. P. Dwivedi and John Halligan (2003) The Canadian Public Service: Balancing Values and Management, in John Halligan (ed.) Civil Service Systems in Anglo-American Countries, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Week Seven: 22 nd - 25 th February 2011: Reading Week: No Classes Week Eight: 1 st March 2011: Administration in Less Developed Nations Ferrel Heady (2001), Chapter Seven - 7 -

8 E. Philip Morgan (1996) Analyzing Fields of Change: Civil Service Systems in Developing Countries, in H. A. G. M. Bekke, J. L. Perry and T. A. J. Toonen (eds) Civil Service Systems in Comparative Perspective, Indiana: Indiana University Press R. B. Jain (2007) Public Administration, Bureaucracy and Development in the Third World: Emerging Paradigm of Good Governance, in R. B. Jain (ed.) Governing Development across Cultures: Challenges and Dilemmas of an Emerging Sub-Discipline in Political Science, Opladen & Farmington Hills: Barbara Budrich Farazmand, A. (1999) Globalization and Public Administration, Public Administration Review, vol. 59, no. 6, pp Week Nine: 8 th States March 2011: Administration in Communist and Post-Communist Anthony B. L Cheung (2010) Checks and Balance in China s Administrative Traditions: A Preliminary Assessment, in Martin Painter and B. Guy Peters (eds.) Tradition and Public Administration, New York: Palgrave A. J. G. Verheijen (2007) Public Administration in Post-Communist States in B. Guy Peters and Jon Pierre (eds.) The Handbook of Public Administration, London: Sage Jan-Hinrik Meyer-Sahling (2004) Civil Service Reform in Post-Communist Europe: The Bumpy Road to De-politicisation, West European Politics, vol.27, no.1, pp Eric M. Rice (1992) Public Administration in Post-Socialist Eastern Europe, Public Administration Review, vol. 52, no. 2, pp Week Ten: 15 th March 2011: Public Management and Administrative Reforms Christopher Pollitt & Geert Boukaert (2004) Public Management Reform: A Comparative Analysis, 2nd edition, New York: Oxford, Chapter 1. Christopher Pollitt and Geert Bouckaert (2003) Evaluating Public Management Reforms: An International Perspective, in Hellmut Wollman (ed.) Evaluation in Public Sector Reform: Concepts and Practice in International Perspective, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, Chapter 2 Jurgen Blum and Nick Manning (2009) Public Management Reforms across OECD Countries, in Tony Bovraid and Elke Loffler (eds.) Public Management and Governance, 2 nd Edition, New York: Routledge Peter Aucoin (1990) Administrative Reform in Public Management: Paradigms, Principles, Paradoxes, and Pendulums. Governance, vol. 3, no. 1, pp Jerri Killian, Niklas Eklund, Jack Rabin, and Evan M. Berman (2008) Handbook of Administrative Reform: An International Perspective, New York: CRC Press, Chapter

9 L. R. Jones & Donald F. Kettl (2003) Assessing Public Management: An International Context, International Public Management Review, vol. 4, no. 1, electronic Journal at Week Eleven: 22 nd March 2011: Management Reforms in Developed Countries Christopher Pollitt & Geert Boukaert (2004) Public Management Reform: A Comparative Analysis, 2nd edition, New York: Oxford, Chapters on Australia, Canada, New Zealand, United Kingdom, and the United States Jerri Killian, Niklas Eklund, Jack Rabin, & Evan M. Berman (2008) Handbook of Administrative Reform: An International Perspective, Chapters 10 & 11 Luiz Carlos Bresser-Pereira (2004) Democracy and Public Management Reform: Building the Republican State, New York: Oxford University Press, Chapter 13 Patricia W. Ingraham & Doanld P Moynihan (2003) Civil Service and Administrative Reforms in the United States, in John Halligan (ed) Civil Service Systems in Anglo- American Countries, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Eleanor D. Glor (2001) Has Canada adopted the New Public Management, Public Management Review, vol. 3, no. 1, pp Week Twelve: 29 th March 2011: Management Reforms in Less Developed Countries Charles Polidano and David Hulme (1999) Public Management in Developing Countries: Issues and Outcomes, Public Management Review, vol. 1, no. 1, pp Jorge Nef (2007) Public Administration and Public Sector Reform in Latin America, in B. Guy Peters and Jon Pierre (eds.) The Handbook of Public Administration, London: Sage Owen E. Hughes (2003) Public Management and Administration: An Introduction, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, Chapter 12 M. Jide Balogun and Gelase Mutahaba (1999) Redynamising the African Civil Service for the Twenty-First Century: Prospects for a Non-bureaucratic Structure, in Keith M. Henderson and O. P. Dwivedi (eds.) Bureaucracy and the Alternatives in World Perspectives, London: Macmillan John P. Burns (2010) Western Models and Administrative Reform in China: Pragmatism and the Search for Modernity, in Jon Pierre and Patricia W. Ingraham (eds.) Comparative Change and Reform: Lesson Learned, Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen s University Press Jose Luis Mendez (2010) Implementing Developed Countries Administrative Reforms in Developing Countries: The Case of Mexico, in Jon Pierre and Patricia W. Ingraham (eds.) Comparative Change and Reform: Lesson Learned, Montreal & Kingston: McGill- Queen s University Press Week Thirteen: 5 th April 2011: Course Wrap-Up Take home exams to be handed to students

10 Questions for short research papers: 1. Discuss the importance of development management in understanding th administration in developing countries. Due date, 8 February, Critically analyze the administrative development of two the Anglo-American st administrative systems (countries) being studied in class. Due date:1 March, Examine the nature of public administration system in post-communists th countries. Due date: 29 March, 2011 Format and Evaluation of Research Papers: The project will be evaluated according to the following criteria: 1. Introduction (10%) Research question(s) Argument or thesis surrounding the research question(s) Outline of the paper, i.e., how you are going to address the question(s) 2. Background (10%): The presentation of your organization: A good description of the organization you are studying including its mandate and organization structure 3. Analysis of the Organization (50%) Construction of the main argument and its sub-arguments Consideration of counter arguments 4. Conclusion (5%) Summary of main points and restatement of thesis An indication as to whether the thesis was proved or disproved 5. Organization and Scholarliness (25%) overall assessment Whether or not the essay flows in a logical manner Quality of writing (grammar, spelling, etc.) Supporting references for points/counterpoints Paragraph construction (point, supporting evidence, and a conclusion/transition sentence) Bibliographical documentation Sources and Citation: The cardinal rule of writing research papers is CITE EVERYTHING Remember this and you should have no problems with regard to plagiarism or other violations of the Academic Code

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12 Sample of Title (cover) Page Comparative Public Administration: An Examination of the British and Canadian Public Administration System By Peter Manu Student #: A paper presented to Professor Frank Ohemeng, Public Administration, School of Political Studies, in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for PAP 6980: Comparative Public Administration University of Ottawa 22 nd April

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