PAD 6053 Public Administration Professional-online

The course will address the scope and nature of the field of public administration with attention given to the intellectual tradition of the field as well as to elements of the current conceptual framework within which American Public Administration is practiced.  The impact of democratic values on administration will be discussed.  The general format for the class will be online discussion/participation with student analysis of selected articles and case studies taken from the American Public Administration literature.  In lieu of a class research paper, specific written assignments relating to concepts and/or cases included in the course material will be made.

PAD6227 –Public Budgeting –online

  This course is designed as an introductory budgeting course for graduate students of administration including, but not limited to, the fields of political science, criminal justice administration, health care administration, educational administration and public administration. The course will be conducted online utilizing the University of West Florida, eLearning resources, including e-reserve readings housed at PACE Library on the main campus and current, real-world budgeting resources on the Internet

The course will consider the federal budgeting process as well as models of budgeting processes and practices developed by the National Advisory Council on State and Local Budgeting (NACSLB).   Attention will be given to both the economic nature of the budgeting process as well as its political nature.  Historical budget reform efforts will be considered.  Students will be introduced to basic, generic operating and capital budgeting techniques and practices, budget related financial and managerial accounting practices, internal control concepts, and finally, performance measurement concepts and techniques applicable to all administrative settings.

PAD 6275 Political Economy of Public Administration-online

Pad 6275 provides an introduction to the concepts needed to analyze public policy particularly focusing on interaction of the public and private sectors of the American economy and the political environment in which they function.  Specific topics of concern include, among others:

• What is Political Economy: Why is it important that American Public Administrators consider this topic?

• Assumptions about Human Nature: Economic Man and American Political Economy

• Political Structure: Models for Separation of Powers, Controlling Factions and Avoiding Tyranny of the Majority

• Market Structure: Models of Perfect Competition, Monopoly, Monopolistic Competition

• Market Failure and Bureaucratic Failure: Recognition, Comparison and Contrast              

• -economics:  Models of Encapsulated Competition and Interventionist Power

• Contracting Out/Privatization of service production in the U. S.:

• Is this simply a revisionist version of planner sovereign markets and centralized

• control? 

• What is the impact of interventionist power on the privatization and public/private partnerships movement?

• Who Shall Guard the Guardians: Is the Fox in the Chicken House?

PUP4004 and PUP5045—Analytic Techniques for Pub Policy—online

Pup4004 and PUP5045  provides students with a practical orientation and a “hands-on” approach to public policy analysis.  The role of the policy analyst is explained in the context of the American public policy process and its institutional framework.  Recognizing the need for students to develop specific work skills as they enter the public and not-for-profit sectors, attention is particularly focused upon the actual techniques required to perform policy analysis.  Different policy areas are utilized to demonstrate the application of these techniques and afford the student experiences performing policy analysis.