Coproduction as Pedagogy: Harnessing Community Data Partnerships for the Classroom

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Jason M. Pudlo ◽  
William C. Ellis ◽  
Jamie M. Cole
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Teaching Tool ◽  
Pedagogical Strategy ◽  
Emergency Communications ◽  
Community Data ◽  
Science Association ◽  
Computing Capacity

ABSTRACT Increased computing capacity and the spread of computational knowledge has generated the expectation that organizations and municipalities use large quantities of data to drive decision making. However, municipalities may lack the resources to meaningfully use their data for decision making. Relatedly, political science and public administration programs face the challenge of training students for success in this environment. We believe one remedy is the adoption of coproduction as a pedagogical strategy. This article presents a case study of a partnership between a university research team and a municipal emergency communications center as a demonstration of how coproduction can be harnessed as a teaching tool. Findings from this project were presented at the Southern Political Science Association Annual Meeting, January 8–11, 2020, in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

The Competence of Political Science: “Progress in Political Research” RevisitedPresidential Address, American Political Science Association, 1999

2000 ◽  
Vol 94 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Holden
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
American Political Science Association ◽  
Mullins Effect ◽  
Political Research ◽  
Political Interests ◽  
American Political Science ◽  
Point Of Departure ◽  
Science Association

Political science is two realms, the intellectual and the organizational, and the task is to consider how the organizational realm might be adapted to the highest improvement of the intellectual realm. Political science has a certain competence (domain) in the study of politics as the organization of power. It also seeks to expand competence as capability. Charles Merriam provides a point of departure Merriam's most successful idea has been that of enhancing competence through improvements in “the field of method.” Competence, however, now demands methodological flexibility, so as to probe more into theexerciseof power. Four fields are strategic: public administration, political interests, urbanization, and the interpenetration of politics and economics. Competence also leads into unorthodox subjects, such as force and foolish, irrational, and pathological decision making (or “the Oxenstierna-Mullins Effect”). Finally, competence demands (and is enhanced by) the reach of political science into serious practical problems of human affairs.

Nonincremental Policy Making: Notes Toward an Alternative Paradigm

1975 ◽  
Vol 69 (4) ◽  
pp. 1354-1370 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul R. Schulman
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Policy Analysis ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Space Exploration ◽  
Manned Space ◽  
Divisible Goods

Much of the literature of policy analysis and public administration is dominated by incremental and “divisible goods” paradigms. Policy is assumed to be a process of marginal and adjustive decision making in which benefits are dispensed piecemeal—proportionate to prevailing distributions of power or publicized need. This essay asserts the existence of a class of nonincremental, indivisible policy pursuits for which the analytical weaponry of political science is largely inappropriate. Such policies display a distinctive set of political and administrative characteristics. These characteristics are explained and examined in connection with manned space exploration policy. An assessment is offered of the challenges posed by nonincremental policy to contemporary outlooks in political science.

scholarly journals Transformational Decision Making: A Corporate Success Story In Purchasing

2011 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 23
Author(s):  
Diane D. Galbraith ◽  
Fred L. Webb
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Business Students ◽  
Business Management ◽  
Teaching Tool ◽  
Challenging Problem ◽  
Success Story ◽  
History Of ◽  
Management Functions ◽  
Undergraduate Business Students

The purpose of this case study is to provide a pedagogical teaching tool for undergraduate business students to fully comprehend the importance of the business management functions of planning, organizing, leading and controlling businesses. This case is inspired by events in the history of Rockwell International Corporation. As a major conglomerate struggles to transform itself over a period of eight decades, Rockwell provided a challenging problem for students to solve.

scholarly journals Archiving and Re-using of Qualitative Data as a Path to Development of Public Administration Research

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 143-160
Author(s):  
Joanna Gajda
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
American Political Science Association ◽  
Data Archiving ◽  
American Political Science ◽  
Science Association

 In response to the assumptions of new public management models and public or good governance, practical aspects of research in the area of public admin­istration and the development possibilities of qualitative research methods are presented in the article. Due to the fact that qualitative research has become increasingly popular in the above disciplines, data archiving and trans­parency is discussed (Moravcsik), (Yom et al.) and guidelines and principles are established (American Political Science Association). However, there is a lot of controversy among scholars (Monroe), and some examples are missing. This paper presents the challenge of ‘openness’ in the empirical activities (or empirical practice) of researchers. Its purpose is to present the archiving data potential from in-depth interviews on the example of a small set of qualitative data from research in the field of public administration. Firstly, the basic assumptions of new models of functioning of public administration and related consequences for researchers are described. In the second part, the challenges related to openness in contemporary public administration models are briefly mentioned. Next, the method of creating an archive from existing data, individual stages, documents, and data is outlined; it is based on the au­thor’s best practice on Qualidata (American Political Science Association; Van den Eynden et al.) and DA-RT principles.1 The summary includes examples of probable opportunities and challenges related to usage of data archiving for the research in public administration and political science development.

Diversifying Methodologies: A Haudenosaunee/Settler Approach for Measuring Indigenous-Local Intergovernmental Success

2018 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Alcantara ◽  
Ian Kalman
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Public Policy ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
The United States ◽  
Science Methods ◽  
Comprehensive Evaluations ◽  
The City ◽  
Partial Success

AbstractIntergovernmental agreements between municipal and Indigenous governments are rapidly expanding in number and importance in Canada and the United States, yet they remain underexamined in the literature. This article considers how to measure the success of these agreements. It takes as a case study the port divestiture agreement between the City of Cornwall (Ontario, Canada), and a neighbouring Indigenous government, the Mohawk Council of Akwesasne. While the agreement represents a partial success and partial failure by conventional public policy and public administration metrics, these evaluations are different when measured against the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) principle of “one-mindedness.” Findings, which were generated using anthropological and qualitative political science methods, suggest that the use of both Indigenous and non-Indigenous frameworks are required to produce accurate and comprehensive evaluations of these agreements and the outcomes that are produced by them.

The Cognitive Revolution and the Political Psychology of Elite Decision Making

2013 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 368-386 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emilie M. Hafner-Burton ◽  
D. Alex Hughes ◽  
David G. Victor
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Large Shift ◽  
Crisis Bargaining ◽  
Strategic Bargaining ◽  
The Us ◽  
Cognitive Revolution ◽  
Better Than

Experimental evidence in cognitive psychology and behavioral economics is transforming the way political science scholars think about how humans make decisions in areas of high complexity, uncertainty, and risk. Nearly all those studies utilize convenience samples of university students, but in the real world political elites actually make most pivotal political decisions such as threatening war or changing the course of economic policy. Highly experienced elites are more likely to exhibit the attributes of rational decision-making; and over the last fifteen years a wealth of studies suggest that such elites are likely to be more skilled in strategic bargaining than samples with less germane experience. However, elites are also more likely to suffer overconfidence, which degrades decision-making skills. We illustrate implications for political science with a case study of crisis bargaining between the US and North Korea. Variations in the experience of US elite decision-makers between 2002 and 2006 plausibly explain the large shift in US crisis signaling better than other rival hypotheses such as “Iraq fatigue.” Beyond crisis bargaining other major political science theories might benefit from attention to the attributes of individual decision-makers.

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