Comparative Public Administration

Comparative Public Administration takes the machinery of the state — constitutions, ministries, local governments, civil service systems — and asks why it looks so different across countries, using the US, France, Germany, and Turkey as recurring reference points to figure out which features are universal and which are products of a particular political tradition. You'll do a fair amount of comparative reading, sit a midterm, final, and quiz, and write homework that pushes you to place Turkey's central and territorial administration inside broader frameworks like neoliberal reform and Europeanization. It builds on the introductory POLS administration sequence and is most useful if you're heading toward public sector work, policy analysis, or graduate study where "how does country X actually run itself" is a question you'll be expected to answer with more than anecdote.