Georgia Southern UniversityAdjunct Professor
Aug. 2015I teach an online course called PBAD 3231 "Introduction to Public Administration. This course serves as an introduction to the field of Public Administration and, as such, it is designed to provide students with an understanding of the major theories and periods of reform influencing the discipline. Many people believe that elected officials (or politicians) and judges are the most consequential actors in the country’s political system. However, policies and judicial decisions are not self-executing. Rather, they rely on public bureaucracies and thousands of public administrators to implement them. To understand the role of public administration in the United States, this course examines the administrators who manage and implement policy, the tools they use, and the environments in which they work.