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May 14, 2024
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POLS 4155 - The White House: Management and Administration
The White House is the center of American public administration. Introduces the White House as a ”mini-bureaucracy” at the hub of the national government, to include the Executive Office of the President, the White House Office, and the far reaching extensions of presidential bureaucratic power as embodied in such operations as presidential travel. Explores the role of staff within the White House. Focuses on the questions: a) how does the White House work; b) what makes it different from other bureaucracies in the American system of government?
Requisites: (POLS 1010 or 1600) and Soph or above
Credit Hours: 3
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes: - Students should appreciate the relationship between the White House and other institutional players in American national government.
- Students should be able to discuss why the scholarship on White House operations takes a different approach than research on most administrative agencies.
- Students should recognize the plasticity of White House operations and assess the strengths and weaknesses of bureaucratic flexibility.
- Students should understand the development of the contemporary White House as an institutional structure.
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