| WEEK # | TOPICS | KEY DATES |
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1 |
Introduction, Student Research Interests, and Cross-cutting Methodological Issues |
First class participation instruction |
2A |
Turning Assumptions into Research Questions |
Second class participation instruction |
2B |
Turning Assumptions into Research Questions: Case Examples Guest: Session with Prof. Merilee Grindle, Professor of International Development, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University |
Third class participation instruction Short paper due |
3 |
Folding "Politics" and "Clientelism" into Planning Research - Comparative Cases |
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4A |
Bureaucracies and Other Organizations: Street-level Bureaucrats, Front-line Workers |
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4B |
Bureaucracies and Other Organizations: Mixing the Politics and the Management of Cities Guest: Session with Prof. J. Phillip Thompson, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, MIT |
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4C |
Bureaucracies and Other Organizations: Variables Driving Organizational Behavior - From Within and Without Guest: Session with Prof. Michael Piore, Economics / Political Science, MIT |
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5 |
Past First-year-paper Examples - Sessions with Authors |
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6 |
Country and Subnational Comparisons - Lessons for Research Guests: Sessions with Prof. Richard Locke, Political Science, MIT, and Professor Richard Snyder, Political Science, Brown University |
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7 |
Uncertainty, Bounded Rationality, and "Satisficing" Session on MIT authorization for research involving interviewing, with the Committee on the Use of Humans as Experimental Subjects. |
Short paper due |
8 |
Interpreting Duplication, Overlap, and Lack of Inter-agency Coordination |
Draft of final paper due |
9 |
Interviewing: First and Follow-up Questions, etc. |
Paper review assignment due |
10 |
Discussions of Draft First-year Paper Proposals |
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11 |
Last Class |
Final paper due |