2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
    Jul 11, 2025  
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

POL 380 - American Bureaucracy: The Administration of Public Policy


The study of executive branch organization in American government and the role of the “fourth branch”- full time executive departments and agencies - in administering and shaping the substance of public policies. Analysis of public administrative hierarchy, leadership, personnel, expertise, operating procedures and sources of bureaucratic power from political, legal, and managerial perspectives.
Lecture
Credits: 3
Offered in Alternate Years