public admin

Revenue Estimating” Please respond to the following:
From the e-Activity about the “Annual Population Estimates 2000 to 2009,” analyze and forecast a comparison of the population growth rate from 2010 through 2016 of the
State of Michigan and your state. Provide these figures in your response for each year. Based on your prediction for the years 2015 and 2016, discuss the impact of
each state’s population increase on the four (4) highest discretionary spending accounts. Note: Please refer back to Week 3 and review the State of Michigan and your
state’s budget.
discussion 2
“Trend Analysis” Please respond to the following:
Discuss at least two (2) challenges an administrator should consider when preparing a trend analysis over a five (5) year period. Justify your response.

Essay, 8-10 pages (double-spaced)
This assignment requires students to choose a question from page 8 of this syllabus, develop a
narrow argument around it, and stay within the prescribed minimum and maximum page limits.
(Endnotes, the bibliography, and the title page do not count towards the minimum and maximum
page lengths.) These questions are open-ended and, as such, allow students to answer them in a
number of ways.
Students are expected to have a minimum of eight academic sources that do not appear in this
course. At least two of these sources must be edited or authored books. Certainly, students’
essays may incorporate course material into the essay, but it cannot be relied on to construct
arguments.
With the exception of on-line academic journals, government documents, and reports from
international and non-governmental organizations available through the University of Ottawa’s
library system, Internet sources cannot be used for this assignment.
Students are strongly encouraged to regularly liaise with the course instructor about the essay
during office hours or through e-mail.
A penalty of 1.8 marks will be applied to a research essay that is not double-spaced.
The following is used to assess the essay:
1. Has the paper addressed the question posed by the assignment?
2. Does the essay clearly state its thesis and then follow it up with how the arguments will
unfold?
3. Does the essay critically engage with other arguments? Strong essays take arguments
seriously, even those they may not necessarily like.
4. Does the essay demonstrate conceptual understanding and variety?
5. Is the essay well organized, enabling its arguments to flow?
6. Are arguments elaborated rather than rushed and stated as self-evident? Remember,
strong arguments are focused and develop a particular point.
7. Is evidence provided to assert an essay’s arguments?
8. Is the essay free from grammatical and/or spelling errors? Poor grammar and spelling
immediately create a negative impression. More important, poor grammar and spelling
prevent the clear communication of an essay’s arguments and ideas.
9. Is the research adequate and relevant?
10. Proper citation and bibliographical form.
Students wishing to have a grade reappraised by the course instructor must attach a written
explanation of which grade he/she feels the assignment deserves and why.
All assignments must adhere to the following:
1. 1.25″ left- and right-side margins, 1″ top and bottom margins, and Times New Roman 12-
size font.
2. All written assignments must be stapled.
3. No written assignment can be submitted in any sort of folder.
4. A simple cover page containing a title, the student’s name, student number, course code
and section, instructor’s name, and the date of submission.
5. Excluding the title page, all pages must be numbered.
6. Assignments must be printed on only one side of each page.
7. Proper citation and a bibliography conforming to the APA style of referencing. Footnotes
are not permitted.
a. For more information about APA general formatting, see:
https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/ ; and,
b. For a sample APA paper, see:
https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/18/
Written assignments that do not adhere to these requirements will receive a penalty of 1.8 marks
per infraction.

ESSAY QUESTIONS********
1. What does “public administration” mean? What is its purpose?
2. Why does bureaucracy have such a bad name?
3. Which model provides the most accurate depiction of how a bureaucracy functions: the
structural-mechanistic model or the organic-humanistic model?
4. Despite the fact that the goals and the logic of public administration are fundamentally
different from the private sector, why is the public sector being told to emulate the private sector?
5. What can the private sector learn from the public sector?
6. How does the broader political environment affect public administration?
7. What has been the most significant transformation in Canadian public administration as a
result of the centralization of power in the executive?
8. How has official bilingualism affected the federal civil service?
9. What explains the bitter state of collective bargaining between the federal government and its
employees?
10. Will the First Nations Financial Transparency Act occasion meaningful administrative
reform?
11. How has the Indian Act structured the administrative relationship between Aboriginals and
the Canadian state?
12. While almost every government promises to reform the federal public service, each attempt
inevitably falls short of its goals. Why?
13. What explains the attraction of new public management as a principle for reforming public
administration?
14. Does the Federal Accountability Act reflect the recommendations made by the Gomery
Commission?
15. Over the last decade, a crisis of morale has developed throughout the federal civil service.
What is the source of this crisis?
16. Critically assess the Office of the Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner.
17. Why was the Parliamentary Budget Officer clashing with the Government of Canada?
18. How has “accountability” been defined in order to reform the federal bureaucracy? What are
its effects on how the federal bureaucracy operates?
19. Select a policy area and demonstrate how a non-state actor affects the policymaking process.
20. Have departments become extensions of the Prime Minister’s Office? If so, what are the
consequences for public administration?