| Date | Topic | Readings |
| January 9 | Introduction class overhead | class details: Objectives Course Requirements Texts/Readings |
| January 16 |
Bureaucracies, Political Bosses, Accountability, Performance |
Gormley and Balla Ch. 3 then Ch. 1, Ch. 7 outline class overhead slides |
| January 23 |
Bureaucratic Reasoning; Decisions |
Gormley and Balla
Ch. 2; Thompson and McEwan, "Organization Goals and Environment" on e-reserve password=network08 guide class slides |
| January 30 | Special Interests, Agency Rule-Making | Gormley and Balla Ch. 4, Kerwin Ch. 1 on e-reserve password=network08 Federal e-regulation website in-class slides |
| February 6 | Introduction to Networks | Gormley and Balla pp. 128-134; Agranoff Ch. 1 in-class slides |
| February 20 |
First Midterm Examination see guide |
|
| February 13 | Networks in Public Management | Agranoff Ch. 2; Gullick "Notes on the Theory of Organization " (1937) on e-reserve password=network08 in-class slides |
| February 27 |
Types of Management Networks |
Agranoff Chs 4 and 5 in-class slides |
| March 5 |
Collaborarchies, Managing Perceptions |
Agranoff 6; The
Conductive Organization
(excerpt);
Termeer and Koppenjan, "Managing Perceptions in
Organizations"
on e-reserve
password=network08 in-class slides |
| March 12 | Social Capital | Presentation, Dick Ferguson |
| March 26 |
Knowledge Management, Network Computing |
Agranoff Ch. 7, 8 and 9 Agranoff Ch. 10 [read this on your own] revised in class slide |
| April 2 |
Second Midterm Examination Click here for exam |
|
| April 9 |
Information Technology (IT); System Enactment |
Fountain Chs 1, 3, and pp. 76-79 in-class slides |
| April 16 | IT Systems | Fountain
Chs. 6 and 10; recommended: Granovetter "...
problem of embeddedness" in-class slide |
| April 23 | IT Systems | Fountain Ch. 7 and pp. 137-146. FINAL EXAMINATION |