Genie Stowers		Public Administration Program San Francisco State University

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PA 800 Fall 2008: Capstone Course

Course Syllabi

Required Course Books and Materials

• Selection of best MPA papers and assignments

• Flash Drive containing with files of MPA assignments and papers

• SFSU Email address with known password

• Geuras, Dean and Garofalo, Charles. 2005.  Practical Ethics in Public Administration (2^nd Edition)   Vienna, Virginia: Management Concepts. (G&G)

• Goldsmith, Stephen and Eggers, William D.   Governing by Network:  The New Shape of the Public Sector.  2004.   Brookings Institution Press. (G&E)

• Guy, Mary E.; Newman, Meredith A.; and Mastracci, Sharon H.  2008.  Emotional Labor: Putting the Serv ice in Public Service   Armonk, New York:  M.E. Sharpe. (GNM)

• Kettl, Donald F. 2002. The Transformation of Governance:  Public Administration for Twenty-First Century America Johns Hopkins Univ Press. (Kettl).

• Stivers, Camilla. 2008.   Governance in Dark Times:  Practical Philosophy for Public Service  Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press. (Stivers)

• JF Kennedy School of Government Cases (Available for download online from the JFK site at http://www.ksgcase.harvard.edu/article.htm?page=order#permission):  

  • C15-01-1622.0: Private Food Service in Houston’s Public Schools? Rod Paige’s School-Reform Campaign and the Outsourcing Controversy

  • C16-05-1803.0: Upwardly Global: Building a Model for Assisting Immigrant Professionals

  • C14-05-1824.0: Wireless Philadelphia and C14-05-1824.1: Wireless Philadelphia, Sequel.

  • C16-04-1759.0: United Way Mass Bay and the Faith & Action Initiative (A)—Should Faith Be Funded?

  • CR16-06-1837.0: Pension Reform in California

  • C15-00-1600.0: The Battle Over the Clinton Health Care Proposal