Defining and analyzing the key questions and basic concepts in the theory of public administration including: administration and politics, decision making processes, the essence of the public sector organization, bureaucratic politics, reforms in the public sector, centralization and de-centralization, public budgeting, and public policy.
The first part of the course is designed to develop students' skills in critical reading of academic research and in academic writing. The second part is an introduction to research methods with emphasis on advantages and disadvantages of methods to different types of research questions.
This course is an introductory course to the study of politics.After discussing politics’ definitions and what it is all about we shall study main concepts in the study of politics and we shall study the language of political science.We shall review several key theories that form Political Science’s canon.We shall distinguish between empirical and normative research and meet prominent scholars in the two schools
