| SES # | TOPICS |
|---|---|
1 | Introduction |
2-3 | I. What drives organizational behavior? |
4 | II. Street-level bureaucrats (SLBs) |
5-7 | IIB. SLBs, firms, and regulatory advances in the workplace Special session with Roberto Pires, DUSP International Development Group dissertation researcher "Stateless" compliance? Global firms, NGOs, and voluntarism |
8-9 | III. Planning thinking, models, critiques Special session with Professor Bish Sanyal, DUSP International Development Group, and Director of DUSP Special Program for Urban and Regional Studies Public management reforms, models and case studies--some assessments |
10-11 | IV. Decentralized service delivery, the state, and NGOs Special session with Professor Melani Cammett, Brown University Political Science, and Academy Scholar, Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies |
12-15 | V. Organizations and their environments International donors: their environments, their outcomes |
16-17 | VI. Politicians and clientelism: what are the impacts on service delivery? Special session with Professor Merilee Grindle, JFK School, and Director, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University |
18-20 | VII. Back to organizations Redundancy, overlap, and duplication Inter-agency collaboration, competition, or neither? Competition (as vs. collaboration) |
21-25 | VIII. Decentralized service delivery, the state, and NGOs (continued) From rich to poor countries, international vs. local NGOs vs. local governments Special session with Gabrielle Kruks-Wisner, MIT Political Science dissertation researcher Provision of services: public, private, or both? The growth of consultants to the public and nonprofit sectors Civil society, NGOs, and democracy: when genuine, when not |
26 | Student presentations |