PAPA 6254 Dull Draft 12/16/08 Center for Public Administration and Policy

THE PRESIDENCY AND PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

PAPA 6254 SPRING 2009
Professor Matthew Dull Email: mdull@vt.edu Tel. 703-706-8117 (office) 202-821-3807 (cell) Meeting: Thursdays 6:45-9:30 Office Hours: Thursdays 3:006:00 or by appointment.

Course Description This course examines the shifting, sometimes-tumultuous relations between the presidency and American public administration. The initiation of a new presidential administration offers a unique lens through which to examine the challenges of presidential leadership. Based on critical review of classic and contemporary scholarship, active dialogue among course participants, and collective observation of the incoming administrations early months, this course seeks to develop a fuller appreciation of the vital role of administration in the shape and scope of presidential leadership. Books Joel D. Aberbach and Mark A. Peterson, eds. 2005. Institutions of American Democracy: The Executive Branch. Oxford University Press. ISBN: 0195309154. Brian J. Cook. 2007. Democracy and Administration: Woodrow Wilson's Ideas and the Challenges of Public Management. Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN: 0801885221 Doris Kearns Goodwin. 2006. Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln. Simon and Schuster. ISBN: 0743270754. Richard E. Neustadt. 1991. Presidential Power and the Modern Presidents: The Politics of Leadership from Roosevelt to Reagan. Free Press. ISBN: 0029227968. Stephen Skowronek. 2008. Presidential Leadership in Political Time: Reprise and Reappraisal. University Press of Kansas. ISBN: 070061575X Coursework First and foremost, course participants agree to complete and be prepared to discuss assigned readings. Participants will also complete three short papers (1500-2000 words) due 2/15, 4/3, and 5/10 and keep a regular journal tracking a specific issue or agency selected in consultation with the course instructor. Each of these five elements participation, 3 papers, and the journal is worth 20 percent of the final course grade.
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Preliminary Schedule
Date
1/22

Reading
Review: U.S. Constitution, Articles I and II Federalist Papers #s 10, 23, 48, 51, 70-72, 76 (available online). Aberbach and Peterson, Presidents and Bureaucrats: The Executive Branch and American Democracy, Aberbach and Peterson: xxi. Leonard D. White. 1948. The Federalist: A Study in Administrative History. Ch. 2-3, 8-9, 17-18, 21-22, 40. Larry Lane. 1996. Public administration and the Problem of the Presidency. In Refounding Democratic Public Administration, ed. Gary Wamsley and James F. Wolf. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 225-259. Gary L. Wamsley, Charles T. Goodsell, James F. Wolf, John A. Rohr, and Orion F. White. The Blacksburg Manifesto Recommended: Donald F. Kettl. 2000. Public Administration at the Millennium: The State of the Field. JPART: 7-34. Robert A. Dahl. 1990 The Myth of the Presidential Mandate, Political Studies Quarterly, 105(3): 355.

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Stephen Skowronek, 2008. Presidential Leadership in Political Time. Ch. 1-2. Daniel Carpenter. The Evolution of the National Bureaucracy in the United States, Aberbach and Peterson: 41. Patricia Ingraham. The Federal Public Service: The People and the Challenge, Aberbach and Peterson: 283. Patricia Ingraham. 2007. Who Should Rule? In Revisiting Waldos Administrative State, David Rosenbloom and Howard E. McCurdy, eds: 71. Recommended Dwight Waldo. 1948. The Administrative State: A Study of the Political Theory of American Public Administration. David H. Rosenbloom Howard E. McCurdy, eds. 2007. Revisiting Waldos Administrative State Constancy and Change in Public Administration. Dwight Waldo, 1952. Development of Theory of Democratic Administration. American Political Science Review 46(1): 81-103. Herbert A. Simon, Peter F. Drucker, and Dwight Waldo, 1952. Development of Theo ry of Democratic Administration: Replies and Comments American Political Science Review, Vol. 46, No. 2, (June): 494-503 Herbert Simon, 1995. Remarks by Herbert Simon upon Acceptance of the Dwight Waldo Award, Public Administration Review, 55:5, (Sep. - Oct.), pp. 404-405

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Brian J. Cook. 2007. Democracy and Administration. Ch. 1-4. Donald F. Kettl. Reforming the Executive Branch of the U.S. Government. Aberbach and Peterson: 344. Colin Campbell, The Complex Organization of the Executive Branch: The Legacies of Competing Approaches to Administration, Aberbach and Peterson: 243. Recommended Peri Arnold. 1996. Making the Managerial Presidency. Kansas. James P. Pfiffner, ed.1999. The Managerial Presidency. Texas A&M.

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2/19 2/26 Brian J. Cook. 2007. Democracy and Administration. Ch. 5-8. Stephen Skowronek, 2008. Presidential Leadership in Political Time. Ch. 3-4. Norton E. Long. 1949. Power and Administration, PAR. Richard Rose, Giving Direction to Government in Comparative Perspective, Aberbach and Peterson: 72. Barry R. Weingast. Caught in the Middle: The President, Congress, and the PoliticalBureaucratic System, Aberbach and Peterson: 312. Recommended Terry M. Moe. 1989. The Political Structure of Agencies, In Can the Government Govern? Chubb and Peterson, eds. Charles O. Jones. 2005. The Presidency in a Separated System. Brookings Institution. 3/5 Karen M. Hult and Charles E. Walcott. 2003. Empowering the White House: Governance Under Nixon, Ford, and Carter. Ch. 1, 2, 5, 7, 9. Recommended: Charles E. Walcott and Karen M. Hult. 1990. Governing the White House: From Hoover Through LBJ. Kansas. Richard Nathan. 1983. The Administrative Presidency. Robert F. Durant. 1992. The Administrative Presidency Revisited: Public Lands, the BLM, and the Reagan Revolution. State University of New York Press, 1992. Andrew Rudalevige. 2006. The New Imperial Presidency: Renewing Presidential Power after Watergate. Spring Break 3/19 3/26 Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals.(Selections TBA) Fred I. Greenstein. The Person of the President, Leadership, and Greatness. Aberbach and Peterson: 218. Lawrence R. Jacobs. Communicating from the White House: Presidential Narrowcasting and the National Interest. Aberbach and Peterson: 174. Stephen Skowronek, 2008. Presidential Leadership in Political Time. Ch. 4-5. Fred Greenstein. 1992. The Hidden-Hand President: Eisenhower as Leader. Ch. 1-4 Recommended Samuel Kernell. 1997. Going Public: New Strategies of Presidential Leadership. Philip Abbott. 1990. The Exemplary Presidency: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the American Political Tradition. Stephen Hess. 2002. Organizing the Presidency. Brookings. James David Barber. The Presidential Character: Predicting Performance in the White House. (Summary: http://academic.regis.edu/jriley/414%20presidential_character.htm) 4/2 Neustadt Memos (selections TBA) Richard E. Neustadt. Presidential Power , Ch. 1-7 Recommended: Robert Y. Shapiro, Martha Joynt Kumar, and Lawrence R. Jacobs, eds. 2000. Presidential Power. Columbia University Press. Terry Moe and William Howell. 1999. Unilateral Action and Presidential Power: A Theory Presidential Studies Quarterly.

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Ken Mayer. 2002. With the Stroke of a Pen. Princeton. Theodore J. Lowi. 1986. The Personal President: Power Invested, Promised Unfulfilled. 4/9 4/16 Richard E. Neustadt, Presidential Power, Ch. 9-13. Matthew Dickinson, The Executive Office of the President: The Paradox of Politicization, Aberbach and Peterson: 135. Terry Moe. 1985. The politicized presidency. In The New Direction in American Politics, edited by J. E. Chubb and P. E. Peterson. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press. The DiIulio Letter (http://www.esquire.com/features/dilulio) Recommended: Matthew Dickinson. 1996. Bitter harvest: FDR, presidential power, and the growth of the presidential branch. Cambridge. Matthew Dull. 2006. Why PART? The Institutional Politics of Presidential Budget Reform. JPART. 16:187-215 Ron Suskind. 2004. The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul ONeill. Simon and Schuster. 4/23 Matthew Dickinson and Andrew Rudalevige. 2004. Presidents, Responsiveness, and Competence: Revisiting the Golden Age at the Bureau of the Budget. Political Science Quarterly. 119 633-54. Brehm and Gates, 1999. Working, Shirking and Sabotage. Ch. 1-2 Anne Khademian, Working with Culture: The Way the Job Gets Done in Public Programs. CQ Press. Ch. 1-3. Recommended: Melissa Martino Golden 2000. What motivates bureaucrats? : politics and administration during the Reagan years. Columbia University Press. Gregory A. Huber. 2007. The Craft of Bureaucratic Neutrality. Cambridge. 4/30 Anne Khademian, Checking on Banks, Ch. 1-2, 5-6.