Syllabus

Weekly Reading Guidelines
Evans School of Public Affairs PPM504, Autumn 2009
Institutional Perspectives on Management

Instructor: Mary Kay Gugerty
Email: gugerty@u.washington.edu

Office: Parrington 220
Office Hours: Wednesdays 12-1
Telephone: 221-4599

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Week 1 Readings

    Peter Hall and Rosemary Taylor, "Political Science and the Three New  Institutionalisms," Political Studies 44:4 (1996)

 J.    March & J. Olsen, "The Institutional Dynamics of International Political Orders," International Organization 52:4 (1998). Kettl, "Public Administration at the Millennium: The State of the Field", JPART

·                  Scott, Richard W. Chapters 1 and 2 from Institutions and Organizations: Ideas and Interests.

·                    Douglas North, Introduction, Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance. Cambridge University Press, 1990.

Kettl, Don. Managing Indirect Government.


Week 2 Readings

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               Frederick Taylor, "The Principles of Scientific Management"

·       Philip Selznick, "Foundations of the Theory of Organization"

·         Herbert Simon, "The Proverbs of Administration"

·         James Q. Wilson, Bureaucracy. Chapters 1 and 2

Weber, Max, Bureaucracy.


Week 3 Readings

DiMaggio and Powell, "The Iron Cage Revisited."

Meyer and Rowan, Institutionalized Organizations: Formal Structure as Myth and Ceremony.

Granovetter, "Economic Action and Social Structure: The Problem of Embeddedness."

Portes and Sensenbrener, "Embeddness and Immigration: Notes on the Social Determinants of Economic Action."


Wilson, Bureacracy, Chapter 3 & Chapter 4 Note:  The Wilson chapters may not always align perfectly with the other readings for the week, but I want to work our way systemmatically through the book.


Week 4 Readings

  

·       Skocpol, Theda, ‘Why I am an Historical Institutionalist” Polity, Vol. 28, No. 1. (1995), pp. 103-106.

·         Kathleen Thelen and Sven Steinmo, “Historical Institutionalism in Comparative Politics.” In Structuring Politics

·         Clemens, Elizabeth, and James Cook. 1999. “Politics and Institutionalism: Explaining Durability and Change.”  Annual Review of Sociology. 25.

        

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