Public Bureaucracies
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Week 2 -- Thinking about Bureaucracies
Case Discussion -- Transportation Security Administration
Case Discussion -- Puget Sound Killer Whales [case response required]
Week 3 -- Managing the Political Environment
Case Discussion -- Ruckelshaus and the EPA [case response required]
Week 4 -- Healthy and Unhealthy Relationships
Case Discussion -- FAA Inspections [case response required]
Week 5 -- Culture and Responsibility
Case Discussion -- Rumsfeld and Prisoner Abuse at Abu Ghraib [case response required]
Week 6 -- Decision-making & Attention
Case Discussion -- Hurricane Katrina
Case Discussion -- Flu Vaccine [case response required]
Week 7 -- Organizational Learning and Resistance to Change
Case Discussion -- Columbia Shuttle Accident [case response required] [LARGE FILE = 4mb]
Week 8 -- Tuesday -- Performance of Public Bureaucracies
Week 8 -- Thursday -- Reorganization -- schedule change
Light -- Case Discussion -- "Homeland Security Hash" [LARGE FILE = 3mb]
Week 9 -- No class Tuesday 24th, Thanksgiving break (along with Thursday 26th)
Week 10 -- Exerting Control
Case Discussion -- UW Medicine Review Report
Case Discussion -- Red Tape -- UW Grants Processing
Case Discussion -- UW Performance Agreement [case response required Thursday 12n]
Week 11 -- Messy Problems
Kettl -- "The Next Government of the United States" [LARGE FILE = 3mb]