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Textbook Readings (See

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Learning Outcomes Assignment Due Due Date Points

Module 1 Introductions and Overview of

Course and Initial Discussion of

Third Party Governance

Readings:

None

1. Introduce yourself to the

rest of the class.

2. Recognize the different

for styles of participation

among class members.

Write a three paragraph biographical

perspective (in the course blog) on you and

this class. In the perspective describe your

educational goals, degree focus, prior and

current work experience, professional/career

goals. What hobbies, athletic or volunteer

activities are important to you? How does

this class serve your goals?

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Module 2 Overview of the Subject Matter

Reading:

1. Goldsmtih and Eggers, Ch. 1

2. Network Management

Reconsidered: An Inquiry into

Management of Network

Structures in Public Sector

Service” Journal of Public

Administration Research and

Theory Vol 18, No 4 2008

(http://jpart.oxfordjournals.org.

mutex.gmu.edu/content/18/4/61

7.full.pdf+html)

3. Provan and Lemaire, “Core

Concepts and Key Ideas for

Understanding Public Sector

Organizational Networks: Using

Research to Inform Scholarship

and Practice” Public

Administration Review, Vol 72

No 5 2012

(http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com.

mutex.gmu.edu/store/10.1111/j.

1540-

6210.2012.02595.x/asset/puar25

95.pdf?v=1&t=hoeb8iqz&s=1a9

efe1575aeafb0fb74ac96e1713bf

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Be able to comment on and

discuss:

1. The inherently fragmented

structure of American

governance

2. The relationship of federalism

and intergovernmental relation

3. The role of public, private and

not-for-profit sectors

4. Forces that drive change in the

multi-governmental, multi-

sector relationships

Online discussion:

Answer one of the following questions in no

more than 300 words and individually

respond to the answers of two of your

classmates in no more than 150 words each.

1. Is there a limit to the number of

entities that can be engaged in the

delivery of programmatic activities?

2. What is the basic unit of analysis for

multi-governmental/multi-sector

delivery structures?

3. Which factors have the greatest

impact in creating change within

multi-governmental/multi-sector

delivery structures?

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Module 3 The “Tools of Government”

Readings:

Salamon, The Tools of

Government, Chaps 1 and 22 on

electronic reserve

Be able to discuss and comment

on:

1. The types of “tools of

government”

2. The factors that influence

the choice of tools

3. How tools extend the

reach of their users

4. The limitations of tools

Online discussion:





1. Is there a limit to the use of tools?

2. Are all tools created the same?

3. How do you choose the best tool in

a given circumstance?

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Module 4 Networks, management and

remote control program delivery?

Readings:

Goldsmith and Eggers, Chaps. 1-4

Be able to comment on and

discuss:

1. basic concepts and ideas

regarding organizational

networks.

2. basic multi-organizational

terminology that

differentiates types of

network relationships,

e.g., intergovernmental

relations,

interorganizational

relations, networks,

loosely and tightly

coupled systems,

federalism, etc.

3. applying multi-

organizational relations

ideas to public service

delivery.

4. whether the focus of a

network always has to

serve a public purpose,

Students assigned to Group 1 will identify,

read and critically evaluate the contribution

of three (3) academic articles or

governmental policy statements on cross-

sector partnerships, intergovernmental

shared risk or public regulation of private

sector activity as they impact infrastructure

protection/emergency response and write a

3-5 page evaluation of the items. The

evaluation will be posted to a discussion

forum by Wednesday this week. The

remaining students will comment on two of

the evaluations.

The evaluations can focus on one of the

following questions or another of the

author’s choice that falls in the same general

area. If choosing another question please

clearly specify it and its importance.

1. How do networks work with

democracy?

2. What forces drive the creation of

networks?

1. How do we differentiate types of

networks?

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Module 5 Networks, management and

remote control program delivery?

Readings:

Goldsmith and Eggers, Chaps. 5-8

Be able to comment on, discuss

and research:

1. Whether networks might

differ across policy areas and

why.

2. How different types of

organizations function

differently in networks.

3. What is different about

managing in networks.

4. What types of networks there

are and why.

5. Whether every organization

participates equally in

networks.

Online discussion





1) Can you really design a network or

do they just emerge?

2) Do all network participants have to

have the same reasons or motives

for participating?

3) How does an multi-sector network

establish a collaborative sense and

valuation of goal congruence?

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Module 6 Federalism: An Institutional

Context

Readings:

Robertson, Chaps. 1-5

Be able to comment on, discuss

and research:

1. The historical roots of multi-

governmental responsibility.

2. Understanding the dynamics

of change in responsibility

3. Differences in approaches

across policy arenas

4. Getting things done in spite

of fragmentation













the evaluations.






1. What forces drive the evolution of

American federalism?

2. Why are the federal/state/local

relationships different across

different types of policies, e.g.,

education, transportation,

environment, etc.?

3. How do the courts treat American

federalism from a constitutional

perspective?

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Module 7 Federalism: Changing State of

Mind in a Changing World

Readings:

Robertson, finish

Be able to comment on and discuss

in an informed way:

1. The political, social and

cultural forces impacting

American Federalism

2. How structural changes in

Federalism have impacted

multi-sector relationships

and networks

3. How governance networks

are impacted by changes in

Federalism.

4. How characteristics of actors

participating in governance

networks change in relation

Federalism changes.

Online discussion forum (see below for

more instructions):





1. To what extent do changes in

Federalism impact designing

networks or vice versa?

2. In what ways does the utilization of

Salamon’s tools reflect changes in

Federalism over time?

3. Which is more important, the

structure of Federalism or the

character of intergovernmental

relationships in structuring network

management challenges.

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Module 8 Privatization, public-private

partnerships, outsourcing

sourcing

Readings:

Grossman and Holzer, Chaps. 1-3


in an informed way:

1. the characteristics of

bonds/ties between actors.

2. government non-profit

relations and government

corporation relations.

3. the forces that drive

organizational relationships

4. intangible and tangible skills













the evaluations.






1. Are there limits to public-private

collaboration?

2. What factors should dictate when

public-private collaboration should

be undertaken?

3. Do public-private collaborators

learn from the collaborative

process?

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Module 9 Public-Private Collaboration:

A new management

paradigm?

Readings:

Grossman and Holzer,

Chaps.4-5


in an informed way:

1. The application of network and

organizational concepts in

economic development

2. The structural effect effect of

public private partnerships on

networks

3. How differences across sectors

affect multi-sector partnerships.

4. The role of goal congruence and

trust in building networks.

Students assigned to Group 4 will

identify, read and critically evaluate

the contribution of three (3) academic

articles or governmental policy

statements on cross-sector

partnerships, intergovernmental shared

risk or public regulation of private

sector activity as they impact

infrastructure protection/emergency

response and write a 3-5 page

evaluation of the items. The

evaluation will be posted to a

discussion forum by Wednesday this

week. The remaining students will

comment on two of the evaluations.

The evaluations can focus on one of

the following questions or another of

the author’s choice that falls in the

same general area. If choosing another

question, please clearly specify it and

its importance.

1. Are public-private collaborations

based on resources exchanges:

money, authority, risk, etc.?

2. What barriers exist to limit the

productivity of public-private

collaboration?

3. How do non-profit organizations

collaborate with the public and

private sectors?

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Module 10 Collaboration, Networks and

Third Party Governance:

Integrating and Practice

Reading:

Comfort, L. K. (2005). Risk, Security, and Disaster Management, Annual Review of

Political Science, 335-356.

Comfort, L. K. (2007), Crisis Management in Hindsight: Cognition, Communication, Coordination, and Control, Public Administration Review, 189-197.

Kapucu, N. (2009). Interorganizational Coordination in Complex Environments of Disasters: The Evolution of Intergovernmental Disaster Response Systems, Journal of Homeland Security

and Emergency Management,

6(1), Article 47.

Moynihan, D. P. (2008). Learning under Uncertainty: Networks in Crisis Management, Public

Administration Review, 350-365.

Be able to comment on, discuss and

research:

1. challenges in organizational

communication and

coordination.

2. developing strategies in

multi-organizational settings.

3. the limits to planning for

emergencies and

infrastructure protection.

4. Learning in networks.

Group 1 will prepare an analytical

summary of the readings for this module

and develop a Powerpoint and video

presentation of their summary. The

power point and video will be uploaded

to the module wiki. The presentation

will be graded by the instructor, based

on the rubric identified for the

assignment.

In addition, the remainder of class will

complete a wiki assignment to identify

the following:

1. Key concepts and ideas omitted

by the group.

2. Additional lessons and ideas

from the reading beyond those

presented by the group.

3. Key changes to the presentation

to improve the substantive

content and delivery of the

material.

The contribution of the other members

of class will be evaluated by the

instructor, and a grade provided based on

the rubric identified for the assignment.

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Module

11

Issues in Managing Third Party

Governance

Readings:

Klijn and Koppernjan,

Chaps. 1-6


research:

1. Risk sharing, what are the

limits?

2. How do you measure

performance?

3. What drives interagency

collaboration and cooperation?

4. What management challenges

arise out of multi-sector

cooperative efforts?


summary of the readings for this

module and develop a Powerpoint and

video presentation of their summary.

The power point and video will be

uploaded to the module wiki. The

presentation will be graded by the

instructor, based on the rubric identified

for the assignment.



the following:


by the group.







material.



instructor, and a grade provided based


assignment.

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Module

12 Issues in Managing Third

Party Governance

Readings:

Klijn and Koppernjan, Chaps. 7-

13


research:

1. why one-size-fits-all, standard

templates do not always

work.

2. what variables that can impact

organizational communication

and coordination in planning

for emergency response.

3. processes of adaptation to

uncertainty.









for the assignment.



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4. how to learn across

organizations in unfamiliar

settings.

the following:


by the group.







material.





assignment.

Module

13

Readings:

Agranoff, Chaps. 1-4


research:

1. understanding the impact of

organizational purpose and

culture on information

processing.

2. the challenges of coordination

in a fragmented political

system.

3. the political challenges of

managing risk.

4. the performance of our policy

making system under conditions

of stress.









for the assignment.



the following:


by the group.




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material.





assignment.

Module

14 Issues in Managing Third

Party Governance

Reading:

Agranoff, Chaps. 5-8


research:

1. Matching management style to

a network

2. Anticipating and evolving style

to fit a dynamic network?

3. Identifying network

management skills for

networks?

4. Whether there are unique

management skills for

networks?

Class discussion of management skills

utilizing discussion board for the

module. Questions will be posted to the

discussion board.

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Module

15 Negotiation, Bargaining and

Network Constructs

Final Summation and Final

Paper Due

Reading:

O’Leary and Bingham, all

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Textbook Readings (See Learning Outcomes Assignment Due ......Learning Outcomes Assignment Due Due Date Points Module 1 Introductions and Overview of Course and Initial Discussion