PO 345 - Public Administration

This course considers several analytic perspectives for understanding the dynamics of public administration, with a particular emphasis on the president’s role in that process. The course examines how the president interacts with the federal bureaucracy to formulate and implement policy, and negotiates with Congress to pass legislation enacting that policy. The course also considers the impact of these central relationships on the broader institutional and electoral contexts in which these political actors function.

Four credits.