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Home > Degree Programs > Teaching & Courses > 2012-2013 Course Listing > Innovation and Reform In Twenty-First Century Democracies
DPI-134M: Innovation and Reform In Twenty-First Century Democracies
Semester: Not Offered
Credit: 0.5
Faculty: Elaine Kamarck
Schedule
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Description
Explores innovation in American government and in the governments of the world’s most mature democracies. Features government executives who won the 2005 Innovations in American Government Award. These presenters will serve as “living, breathing case studies for the course.” In addition, the course will review the history of government reform movements in Great Britain, Canada, the United States, and other mature democracies. It focuses on reform concepts such as performance management, electronic government, civil service modernization, and regulation. It introduces the concepts of markets and networks as they apply to modern government. Students will be encouraged to envision government in the next century.
Not offered in 2012-2013.