Question ADM624 Public Governance Week 2 Discussion DQ1 Some major social and economic innovations in the United States have begun with small-scale experiments on the state level. For example, Wyoming permitted women’s suffrage 50 years before the 19th Amendment was ratified. Can you think of the other examples? What current state experiments might one day…
Question ADM624 Public Governance Week 1 Discussion DQ1 Using “Agency Stakeholder,” describe the political field and the players in the administrator’s political force field. http://kbcob.gcumedia.com/lcHtml/adm624/adm624_agencyStakeholder.html DQ2 What potential problems do you see arising when the private sector delivers a social service? What are the advantages of this approach to service delivery?
Question ADM624 Public Governance Week 4 Discussion DQ1Suppose you were to build a model that would forecast the nationwide demand for nurses 20 years from now. As a start, you must make assumptions about population growth and the effects of new drugs. What else? Do you think the list of variables is endless? Support your…
Question ADM624 Public Governance Week 3 Discussion DQ1 Public officials at all levels of government are frequently criticized for making shortsighted decisions. Elected officials may be accused of looking forward only as far as the next election and of placing narrow, parochial interests above the general welfare. To what extent is such criticism justified? Do…
Question ADM624 Public Governance Week 5 Discussion DQ1 Not everyone is enchanted by ideas of empowerment and teamwork. For example, Richard Sennett, a sociologist at New York University, argues in The Corrosion of Character, that because teamwork relies on “the fiction of harmony,” it stresses mutual responsiveness at the expense of original thinking. Unity, he…
Question ADM624 Public Governance Week 7 Discussion DQ1 Identify some organization with which you are reasonably familiar. Describe what key elements would be needed in a performance appraisal form for managers. Would you weight the traits to determine a raw score? Why or why not? (Refer to pages 343-346 in the textbook.) DQ2 Diversity means…
Question ADM624 Public Governance Week 6 Discussion DQ1 For years, the performance of a state’s facilities maintenance group, which is responsible for keeping government buildings in the state capital clean and neat, was mediocre. No amount of pressure or inducement from the secretary of state, who had ultimate responsibility, seemed to do any good. What…
Question ADM624 Public Governance Week 1 Discussion DQ1 Using “Agency Stakeholder,” describe the political field and the players in the administrator’s political force field. http://kbcob.gcumedia.com/lcHtml/adm624/adm624_agencyStakeholder.html DQ2 What potential problems do you see arising when the private sector delivers a social service? What are the advantages of this approach to service delivery? ADM624 Public Governance…
Question ADM624 Public Governance Week 8 Discussion DQ1 One response to revenue-raising limitations being placed on local government is to delete exemptions. In the textbook, P. S. Flores offers the following examples of welfare and charitable groups enjoying property-tax exemption: YMCA, fraternal clubs, chambers of commerce, labor unions, the American Legion, Masonic lodges, orphanages, humane…
Question ADM624 Public Governance Week 3 Assignment Case 5.1 A Strategy is Born Details: Read Case Study 5.1. Answer Questions 1, 2, and 3 at the end of Case Study 5.1. Each question should be answered in an essay format of approximately 250-500 words. Ensure your paper answers the questions and uses concepts studied in…
