PS 311 Publ Admin Prin & App for Prof
This course begins with an overview comparison/contrast of the basic principles of private vs. public administration, which leads to an examination of how the local, state, and federal bureaucratic systems are organized and how they relate. The course then focuses on two key areas in which a public servant is likely to be involved: public personnal administration and public budgeting. Emphasis is placed upon recruitment, training, promotion policies, position classification, and employer-employee relations. In addition, the politics, techniques, and fiscal schedules of budgeting processes at federal, state and local levels will be studied.