Introduction, historical development of public administration and management, and recent critiques
Readings and class materials for Thursday, August 28, 2025
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.
Michael Townsen Hicks, James Humphries, and Joe Slater, “ChatGPT Is Bullshit,” Ethics and Information Technology 26, no. 2 (June 2024): 38, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10676-024-09775-5.
Jane Rosenzweig, “AI-assisted Writing Is Close to Becoming as Standard as Spell Check. Here’s the Catch” (Los Angeles Times, June 20, 2023), https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2023-06-20/google-microsoft-chatgpt-ai-writing-assistants-artificial-intelligence.
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.
Optional, but useful
- Leanne C. Powner, “Reading and Understanding Political Science: A Student’s Guide to Scholarly Literature,” 2016, https://www.leannecpowner.com/tchdocs/ReadingPS2015-6.pdf.