1. PIA 2020. Introduction to Public Affairs
Week Two:
The Methodology of Comparing Public Systems

2. Revisit: Overview of this Session
The Importance of Culture and the Comparative Method
Influences on the Public Policy Processes
History and Contemporary Policy Issues
The Search for Enduring Themes

3. The Beginning: The Importance of Culture in Comparative Politics
So far so good….
The Problem- Definition as the beginning of confusion
1. Method vs. Area Problem- The core of Comparative Politics
2. Strict definition: A method for cross- national comparison of political or bureaucratic structure or behavior.
3. Often used as all public administration which is not American
4. Key: Focus Upon Bureaucracy in both a contemporary and a Historical Context helps us understand public affairs

4. The Critical Issue of Culture: Public Affairs and the Bureaucracy

6. An Example: What is the dominant cultural value in Terms of access to political processes?
a. Ascription
b. Representation vs. achievement
c. Values re. social and economic change or distribution
d. What is the dominant cultural value? What is most important?
e. Representation vs. Politics

7. Ascription

8. Culture and Enduring Themes
Dysfunctionalism, Corruption and Civil Service Reform
Law and Order vs.Private Enterprise and Public Sector Management of Economic Activities
State Management vs. Privatization
Debates about Contracting

9. Culture and the Nature of Interaction with Society
Access:
1. Access to government often through the bureaucracy
Nature of interaction: Review
a. Ascription vs. achievement
b. Values re. social and economic change
c. Ethnic, religious or racial privilege

10. ACCESS?

11. Comparative Public Management and Development: Macro-Theme
Companion to Issues of
Development Theory, Human Security,
Policy, and Planning
Critical to an understanding of International Relations and Security Policy

12. Summary: Comparative Public Policy
1. Comparative View of Public Affairs and Management and Relationship to the Policy Process
2. The role of the bureaucracy in
politics- Bureaucrats do make policy
3. The relationship between the state, the state bureaucracy to non-profit organizations, private sector and economic development.

13. Political Culture: Bureaucracy, Organizations and Power
The control of bureaucratic power, upon which comparisons of diverse bureaucracies can be valid. (Trump will soon learn this)
Reminder- The Use of History: Historical Kingdoms in Asia, Africa and Europe precursor to modern state system

14. D. Comparative Public Affairs (PA) and Administration: “Five Minute History”
Preliminary Comments:
1. The History and Public Affairs: Culture and the Passage of Time is Important
2. The view from the rest of
the world. That includes the U.S.
3. A discipline that is not
4. Origins in the Comparative
Politics Movement

15. India, Empire and Britain Modern Europe
Historical Case Studies: Political Culture and Continuity of Themes- How the World Shaped Public Policy Processes
China
Egypt
Rome
Feudalism
Africa
Absolutism
India, Empire and Britain
Modern Europe

16. China- Mandarins- c. 1500 BC Symbol: Elites
Personalized Despotism
Ministries/Departments with Officials
Hierarchy of Authority
Selection based upon competition
General administration model

17. Many of the palaces were very much in the Chinese style
Many of the palaces were very much in the Chinese style. Vietnam was ruled by China for several hundred years, and adopted many of the Imperial Chinese practices (like the exam system, and mandarins). (Influenced East and South East Asia)

18. Egypt- c. 1000 BC Symbol: Technical achievement
a. Clerks and Scribes
b. Architects, engineers
c. Pyramids- craftsmen as elites
Contemporary views in Egypt: Criticism includes bribery, corruption, over-standardization, red tape, extortion, laziness
Hydraulic Society

19. The Principle of Building Pyramids-1

20. The Principle of Building Pyramids-2

21. Rome- 27 BC-476 AD Symbol: Taxes and Empire
a. Revenue- system for Tax collection
b. Distinguish: private vs. public personalities of head of state/ separation of resources of state from individuals
c. Distinguished ruler from ruled
d. Contemporary critique: Too large, inflexible, oppressive, over-centralized (eg. Israel)
e. The Importance of Law

22. Roman Law: The new code promoted the organization of public prosecution of crimes and instituted a system whereby injured parties could seek compensation in civil Disputes
Napoleonic Law
Roman Dutch Law
Common Law

23. Feudalism- 400 AD-1400 AD Symbol: Collapse
a. Many power centers- myth of collapse (Decentralization)
b. Collapse of apparatus of central state- not all bad
c. More developed state systems-Byzantium, North Africa and Asia
d. Back to more traditionalist, fused systems at the end of the period (Resembled Africa)

24. Roland Pledges His fealty to Charlemagne

25. African Kingdoms: 800-1800 Ghana- Hierarchical Monarchy
Mali- Timbuktu and Higher Education
Songhai- Imperial Grandeur
Zimbabwe- Stone Architecture
Zulu- Warfare and Totalitarianism

26. African Kingdoms:

27. Songhai Empire, c.1340–1591

28. An African Traditional Leader
An African Traditional Leader? Khama the Great- (C, ) Ian Khama Being Sworn In on April 1, 2008 (An African Democrat?) The Resilience of Traditionalism

29. Absolutism and the Nation-State, 1500-1800: Western Europe and Scandinavia
a. Return to Roman Ideal. Absolutist Kings
b. Royal Privileges
c. Raise revenues: system of taxation, tax collectors back in business
d. Mercentilism- wealth, based on state monopoly companies, basis of state power. Empire key to Expansion
Modern origins of specialized administration- no longer members of the "king's household"-

30. Sixteenth Century Europe

31. Louis XIV, the Sun King ruled France from 1643 to 1715: Traditionalism

32. Poul Christian von Stemann, (April 14, 1764 – November 25, 1855)  for twenty years the last ”prime minister” of Danish absolutism

33. Prussia: Frederick the Great- 18th century (Institutions of Governance)
a. Administration as a university study- Cameralism (Chamber managing the public's business)
b. Entrance Examinations
c. Field Training (Internships)
d. Critique: caste status of bureaucrat, aloof, exclusive and inflexible

34. Prussian Law: Cameralism is an economic theory in which public revenue is sole measure of national prosperity

35. (Representation). Old Sarum U. K
* (Representation)* Old Sarum U.K. By the 19th Century, the village, Old Sarum, was officially uninhabited and yet still had formal parliamentary representation, making it the most notorious of the rotten boroughs that existed before the Reform Act of 1832

36. The Debate about Institutions, Economics and and Society
Social Dynamics and the
Origins of bureaucratic systems: an understanding Max Weber and Karl Marx
The Public Sector Debate: Law and Order (or Weber vs. Marx)

37. Abolutism as Colonial Empire: Asia, Africa, the Americas India- Northcote-Trevelyn Report of Reform in the Colonies BB (Before Britain)
a. Result of Indian Mutiny
b. Pattern of Recruitment- Career appointments, competitive examinations, and an end to patronage
c. Early model of merit system-no politics

38. Empire: Sepoy Mutiny 1857

39. Modern Europe- (Note John Armstrong)- 19th Century England
1. Gentlemen generalists
2. Rotten boroughs and patronage
3. Sinecures- "bastard sons of the ruling class“
4. Reform- merit, exams and elites
5. Colonial Administrators

40. Maximilian Carl Emil Weber (21 April 1864 – 14 June 1920)- The Big Theory Man

41. Weber: The Importance of Democracy in the Delivery of Public Services
Campaigning for the Weimar Constitution in Germany, 1919

42. Capitalism and the Protestant Ethic- And its Critics

43. The Norms, Beliefs, and Institutions of 21st-Century Capitalism: Celebrating Max Weber's The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism Conference: October 8-9, 2004

44. 4. Traditional, Charismatic and Legal-Rational Models of Public Administration- Max Weber: 1864-1920
Note: It was history that influenced the ideas of two late 19th century intellectuals, Karl Marx and Max Weber
Myth- Bureaucracy as a neutral actor
Max Weber’s Theory- Three ideal types of administration- Max Weber's three models
Traditional, Charismatic and Legal Rational

45. Central Debate: Two Giants of Public Affairs and Public Service
Max Weber- Both a social scientist and a politician
1. Concern for Values: So-called Protestant Ethic
2. Separation of bureaucracy and politics
3. Weimar Republic- Political Institutions
Karl Marx- Both a social scientist and a revolutionary
1. Class- Dialectic Materialism (History)
2. Social and Withering Away of State
3. Russian Revolution After his Death

46. As a Social Scientist
Karl Heinrich Marx
(May 5, 1818-March 14, 1883)

47. The Dialectic and Historical Materialism
HISTORY: Marx
The Dialectic and Historical Materialism
Roman Slavery-
Citizens vs. Slaves
Feudalism-
Capitalism-
Bourgeoisie vs. Proletariat
Socialism- Dictatorship of the Proletariat
Communism

48. 19th Century Germany
Prussia- law, authoritarian, hierarchical, and the German Intellectual
Max Weber- Liberalism and the State- Influenced by the Prussian model of the state

49. Continental Europe
1. France- Revolutionary model- routinization, Technical specialization
2. Iberia- Cartesian Models
3. Scandinavia/Benelux- Legal, then social model

50. Weber’s Traditional- Fused Administration
1. Looked back at China, Egypt, Rome and Africa
2. Fused System- magic, mystification and witchcraft
3. Key- gradual move to rational separation of King from government

51. French Revolution: “History, Nationalism and the Rule of Law”

52. 1. State identified with the movement and leader
Charismatic- Revolutionary and the Aftermath of French Revolution,
1. State identified with the movement and leader
2. Apex under Napoleon
3. Allegiance of civil servant to leader

53. Routinization of Charisma
4. Key: Routinization of Charisma
-from leader, shift loyalties one step further to nation
-basic ministries- finance, foreign affairs, War, Justice, Interior
5. French revolution- Continued emphasis on science and engineering

54. Discussion, Introduction and Chapter 1, Schiavo-Campo “Good Governance”
a. What is the difference between Government and Governance? b. Why is civil society important? c. What is the difference between institutions and organizations? d. Explain Political Culture

55. Discussion of the Week: Zakaria, Introduction and Chapter One
1. What is the difference between liberty and “democracy?”
Explain illiberal (populism?)
Compare “democracy in Ango-world from Europe, Asia and Africa?
How does religion influence “politics”

56. Discussion: Lemann, The Promised Land
Why do you think we are reading “The Promised Land”
What did you learn about Clarksdale Mississippi that surprised you?
What does Clarksdale tell us about social systems in America?
Compare and contrast Lemann, Zakaria and Schiavo-Campo

57. Picard and Buss What is their Overall Thesis
How do they differ from most books about foreign policy?
Is Foreign Aid important for Public and Security Management?

58. The Role of Satire https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nihDRSuTG6o
How Cultural is Political Satire?
Which Political Cultures are being satired here?