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Mary Kay Gugerty
PPM 504
Seattle Campus
Prepares doctoral students for careers in research and teaching public policy, management, and leadership. Examines essential responsibilities that policy makers, managers, and other kinds of leaders must address to succeed in public service through competing theories of institutional design and action. Offered: A.
Class description
Prepares doctoral students for careers in research and teaching public policy, management, and leadership. Examines essential responsibilities that policy makers, managers, and other kinds of leaders must address to succeed in pubic service through competing theories of institutional design and action.
Student learning goals
know the classic lines of scholarship on institutions, and distinguish how scholars from different disciplines study core management and policy challenges;
recognize the theoretical orientation(s) of any scholarly work on management or institutions that you come across;
identify and articulate key theoretical, descriptive, and normative overlaps and distinctions among the different schools of institutional theory;
critique, integrate, and apply the theories to study particular problems of policy and management; and
position your own research and teaching interests across the various schools of institutional thought.
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