PAD 4936-16: Comparative Public Administration Spring 2012: Tuesday & Thursday 9.30 to 10.45 a.m HCB 217 Contact Information: Instructor: Aisha Azhar Office: 639 Bellamy Office Hours: Tuesday 11.30- 1.30, and by appointment Office fax: 644-7617 Email: [email protected] Blackboard Site: I will actively use the Blackboard site created for this course. At your earliest convenience and on a regular basis thereafter, please log in to the site to see new materials that have been posted and/or announcements that have been posted. Course Materials: Required Text: Jreisat, Jamil. Globalism and Comparative Public Administration (Public Administration and Public Policy). CRC Press, 2011 Other Relevant Texts: Holzer, Marc & Schwester, Richard. Public Administration: An Introduction, M.E. Sharpe, Inc., 2011 Other required readings and assignments will be posted on the class Blackboard site (http://campus.fsu.edu). Articles and multimedia will be posted under the Readings tab which contains folders for every week. Course Description: This course examines a broad range of issues relating the activities of public administration and governance in international setting. The course will address the set of ideas under the traditional heading of comparative administration, prevailing in United States for over half a century. The ideas, however, would be discussed with a blend of newer and more up to date challenges public administration field is encountering across the world. The course will not only discuss the web of international institutions that have arisen in the last several decades but also take into account how they cooperate and collaborate in order to meet the global challenges. The course includes how government and governance systems are embedded in historical, cultural, ideological, and religious contexts that may be unique to particular nations and regions but may not be generalizable to global settings. Briefly, the course provides a nice introduction to public administration, globalization and political science fields, which may help students in decisions of what field or domain matches their interests to pursue in future.Course Objectives: 1. Students are expected to gain an understanding of basic comparisons among national public administrative systems. 2. Students will develop an understanding and appreciation for the broad and deep dynamics of globalization, and especially those that shape governance systems and the expectations of nations’ citizens for their governance systems. Attendance and Participation: Attendance and punctuality are expected for all class sessions and have a significant impact on your final grade. Attendance will be taken each class and if an absence is essential, the student is responsible for notifying the instructor, and for ensuring the timely submission of any assignments that are due during his/her absence. There are 15 weeks in the Spring 2012 semester and students will receive a maximum of 10 points per week for satisfactory attendance. For most weeks when we have two class sessions a student will be awarded 5 points for each attended session. However during the weeks where we lose class meetings due to holidays the weight of the remaining sessions increases to 10 points for attending the one class on Tuesday or Thursday. At the end of the semester the weekly totals will be tallied and awarded to each student. Additionally during some sessions students will be required to participate in exercises presented in the course required text and submission of responses and reactions will be included in the daily point totals for attendance and participation. (Maximum of 150 points) Quizzes: Five (5) quizzes will be given throughout the semester. The lowest of the five quiz grades will be dropped for each student, meaning that only four (4) quiz grades will be used in computing the students’ final grades. Each of quizzes will be worth 50 points. Quizzes will include all material covered up to the date of the current quiz. Makeup quizzes will be permitted for excused absences only! (Maximum of 200 points) Midterm: The midterm exam will cover ALL SUBJECT MATTER covered during the lectures and in your assigned readings up to the point of the midterm. Make-up exams will be permitted only in cases where a university accepted excuse is provided to the instructor. E-mail or phone call notices of illness without appropriate documentation of such illness will not constitute an acceptable excuse. (Maximum of 250 points) Short Essay: Students will be required to complete a short essay between five (5) and seven (7) pages. The essays should be double-spaced in 12 point Times New Roman font with standard one inch margins. Your essay should include an introductory paragraph clearly articulating your argument, your actual argument with examples (3-4 paragraphs), and a concluding paragraph which summarizes the points made in the prior sections of the paper. Essay questions will be distributed in Week 11 (3/13/2012) and students will be required to submit their final answers two (2) weeks later in Week 13 (3/27/2012). (Maximum of 150 points) Late work: The essays are due at the beginning of class on their prescribed due date. Late essays will be accepted for up to three calendar days after the original due date. A penalty of 5% will be applied for each day that the assignment is due within the three calendar day window. Any essay submitted after three calendar days will be subjected to an additional penalty of 10% for each additional day through five calendar days. No late essays will be accepted more than five calendar days after the essay was due. Accordingly, the reductions for late work will be assessed as follows: 1-3 days late: 5% reduction per day late4-5 days late: 10% reduction per day late 5+ days late: 0 credit for the assignment Final Exam: The final exam will cover ALL SUBJECT MATTER covered AFTER the midterm and up to the point of the final exam. Make-up exams will be permitted only in cases where a university accepted excuse is provided to the instructor. E-mail or phone call notices of illness without documentation of such illness will not constitute an acceptable excuse. (Maximum of 250 points) Grading: The distribution of grades magnitude is as follows: Attendance and participation: 15% Quizzes: Quiz 1: 5% Quiz 2: 5% Quiz 3: 5% Quiz 4: 5% Quiz 5: 5% Top four (4)