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  • 3.00 Credits

    Course is an introduction to political economy exploring the relationship between economy and government or political system. Role of the state, role of the market, impact of economic ideologies on political and economic systems will be examined. Structure of political and economic interests and the mediating effects of institutions on political and economic outcomes will be examined. Normative issues connected to ideal political and economic institutions and appropriate political and economic institutions and outcomes will be examined. The impact of the political and economic institutions on the problems of public administration at both the national and state level will be covered as well as the appropriate role for administrators, elected officials and private sector leaders in the formulation of political and economic policy. 3. 000 Credit Hours 3. 000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate Doctoral, Graduate Business, Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture College of Science & Letters College Social Sciences Department
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    Addresses the relation between democratic institutions and processes of American politics and the administrative agencies of government. Examines obligations of citizenship, influence of private interests--especially economic--on public purposes, and effects of demographic, economic and technological change on self-government. 3. 000 Credit Hours 3. 000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate Doctoral, Graduate Business, Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture College of Science & Letters College Social Sciences Department
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    Analyzes the decision-making process in urban and metropolitan governments. Emphasizes the role of elected and appointed officials, business, organized labor, community organizations and the electorate. Also focuses on the major problems of city-suburban relations. 3. 000 Credit Hours 3. 000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate Doctoral, Graduate Business, Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture College of Science & Letters College Social Sciences Department
  • 3.00 Credits

    Considers the role played by the nonprofit sector in the larger American society and economy. Topics include major organizational forms, financial management, human resource policies, leadership, board-executive relations, and private-public connections. 3. 000 Credit Hours 3. 000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate Doctoral, Graduate Business, Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture College of Science & Letters College Social Sciences Department
  • 3.00 Credits

    Nonprofits and the Public Sector, an overview of the complex and important relationship between government and non-profits. This course includes a review of the history, funding schemes, the differences between grand and contract funding, recent trends, and much more. 3. 000 Credit Hours 3. 000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate Doctoral, Graduate Business, Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture College of Science & Letters College Social Sciences Department
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    Examines the changing role of government regulation of private and public activities from a political and administrative perspective. Explores the reasons for growth and reform of economic and social regulation. Investigates the regulatory process, including standards for rule-making and the involvement of organized groups and the courts. 3. 000 Credit Hours 3. 000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate Doctoral, Graduate Business, Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture College of Science & Letters College Social Sciences Department
  • 3.00 Credits

    International Business and Public Policy: The course provides public sector managers a foundation for understanding key marketing and strategy topics from a private sector managers' perspective, so that public sector managers gain perspective into the private sector decision-making process in a globalizing environment. The course traces and compares the evolution of industrial systems in different countries, and the role of public policy in emerging industrial clusters in an international context. The underlying forces driving the development and internationalization of business systems will be explored, and the implications for corporate and public policy makers will be emphasized. 3. 000 Credit Hours 3. 000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate Doctoral, Graduate Business, Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture College of Science & Letters College Social Sciences Department
  • 3.00 Credits

    The 21st century confronts the public sector with new challenges and opportunities. Many of these challenges and opportunities will take place on the community level; and many of those challenges and opportunities will be centered on the notion of social capital and the community. Social Capital means the building of and use of community assets, those resources available to the community through its residents or citizens, association, institutions, and its economic life. Using an Asset Based Community Development Approach the objective of this course is to help the student understand and use the concepts of asset based approaches to social capital and community as it relates to public administration. 3. 000 Credit Hours 3. 000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate Doctoral, Graduate Business, Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture College of Science & Letters College Social Sciences Department
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    A reading and seminar course on a contemporary topic in public administration or policy. Subject matter will change in successive offerings of the course. (Credit: Variable) 1. 000 TO 3.000 Credit Hours 1. 000 TO 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate Business, Graduate Schedule Types: Lecture College of Science & Letters College Social Sciences Department
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course introduces students to governmental planning, policy making and their impact on the built environment. Using Chicago and nearby municipal areas as examples, the course acquaints students with the basic theories of urban and regional planning and development, and the regulatory tools and techniques used by government to impact the built environment. The course also includes material on housing, environmental protection, brownfields, historic preservation, new-urbanism and growth management, and various policy making processes that determine governmental policies intended to influence the built environment. 3. 000 Credit Hours 3. 000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate Business, Graduate Schedule Types: Lecture College of Science & Letters College Social Sciences Department
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