Introduction, historical development of public administration and management, and recent critiques

Readings and class materials for Tuesday, January 10, 2023

Readings

The syllabus, class, and assignments pages for this class
Michael J. Nelson, “How to Read Journal Articles Like a Professor,” 2021, http://mjnelson.org/Teaching/HowToRead.pdf.
The “How to Read” section in Amelia Hoover Green, “Reading and Writing in College: Ten Years of Tip Sheets in One Handy Document,” September 2021, https://www.ameliahoovergreen.com/uploads/9/3/0/9/93091546/writing-guide.pdf.
Leanne C. Powner, “Reading and Understanding Political Science: A Student’s Guide to Scholarly Literature,” 2016, https://www.leannecpowner.com/tchdocs/ReadingPS2015-6.pdf.
Kenneth J. Meier and Gregory C. Hill, “Bureaucracy in the Twenty-First Century,” in The Oxford Handbook of Public Management, ed. Ewan Ferlie, Laurence E. Lynn, and Christopher Pollitt (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005), 51–71, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199226443.003.0004.

Plan for the day

Who are you all and why are you here?
The pains and wonders of bureaucracies + building our Global Bureaucracy¹ Toolkit^™
- Jan Banning’s “Bureaucratics”
How the class works
- Mini presentation signup sheet
Things they don’t teach you in grad school
- How to read and annotate an article
  - Zotero + Zotero Connector + GSU’s Zotero guide
  - Class Zotero group library
  - What are DOIs?
  - Taking and storing notes:
    - Zotero
    - Obsidian
    - Notion
    - OneNote
    - Evernote
  - Things we’ll read together:
    - Woodrow Wilson, “The Study of Administration,” Political Science Quarterly 2, no. 2 (June 1887): 197–222, https://doi.org/10.2307/2139277.
    - Brint Milward et al., “Is Public Management Neglecting the State?” Governance 29, no. 3 (July 2016): 311–34, https://doi.org/10.1111/gove.12201.
    - Alasdair Roberts, “The Aims of Public Administration: Reviving the Classical View,” Perspectives on Public Management and Governance 1, no. 1 (March 2018): 73–85, https://doi.org/10.1093/ppmgov/gvx003.
- Break!
- How to summarize, synthesize, and write about articles
  - Zotero in Word + Zotero in Google Docs + Zotero in RStudio or with Markdown in general
  - Summary vs. synthesis + The Synthesis Test
- How to discuss an article in a seminar
  - General summary of the article
  - Strengths
  - Weaknesses
  - How does it connect to other readings?
  - How does it connect to the broader course themes?
  - How does it connect to current events?
  - What does it add to our Global Bureaucracy Toolkit^™?

Footnotes

Good luck spelling this word correctly over and over and over this semester!↩︎