This course explores the fundamental questions about government and policies, about market systems and about relations between the two. Administrative Practices and Organization. The methods and procedures of governmental administration and the control of public bureaucracies in democratic societies. This course is designed to introduce undergraduate students to the role of budgeting in the governmental process. Budgetary actors, their motivations, their stakes and their behaviors are investigated.
Students examine the legislative process of the budget and budgetary implementation.
Students are introduced to cutback management, funding mandates and other current issues in governmental budgeting. Post Communist Europe. This course explains the collapse of communist rule in the former Soviet Union and in Eastern Europe. It introduces the contemporary political institutions and processes of Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Poland, Hungary, the Czech republic and other key countries of the region. The course will use a comparative approach and develop country profiles to assess the varied degrees of success in achieving stable multi-party democracy.