Explain Future Regulatory Challenges

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Week 7

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Staying Current in the Ever-Evolving Field of Administrative Law

In theory, administrative rulemaking by unelected bureaucrats is much less democratic

than publicly-debated legislation enacted by popularly-elected representatives. The

unelected bureaucrats routinely endeavor mightily to support the common good of the

public-at-large by manning the routine (and often thankless) daily processes of

transactional governmental bureaucratic organizations with a far greater focus on cost-

benefit than a transaction/per-unit cost. While individual per-unit costs are the bedrock

of any business model within the manufacturing industry, such a metric often rings hollow

within the realm of public administration where cost-benefit analysis rules supreme. For

example, the number of widgets a particular lineman can assemble each hour on a

particular assembly line generates X-amount of profitability for the company (minus

his/her hourly wage) which justifies his/her position on the assembly line. That same cost-

benefit standard would be exceedingly difficult to apply to a Transportation Security

Agency (TSA) assigned to a luggage screening station at your local airport. While your

fictitious TSA agent will likely have a desired per-bag/per-passenger screening time goal

for each of the hundreds of passengers that agent may screen on any given day, some

passengers will require additional time and potential assistance than others. It is

important to remember that the primary focus of the TSA agent is to conduct a full safety

screening of every passenger (and/or piece of luggage) that comes through an assigned

screening station, regardless of how long it takes. This is because a full accounting of

passengers and luggage entering the airport is FAR more important than achieving an

ideal security processing time, especially considering the potentially deadly costs of

allowing a single dangerous weapon to be smuggled onboard a commercial airliner.

For those aspiring public administrators, this introductory administrative law course is just

the beginning of a long professional journey. While individual policies/programs, as well

as individual congressional, judicial, agency-level representatives, will continue to change

on a regular basis, the fundamental processes of administrative rulemaking, formal

adjudication, need for transparency, and higher-level federal oversight is very likely to

continue unabated into the foreseeable future. Keeping abreast of significant court

decisions and major statutory legislation changes will be an important way to remain

proactively engaged in this ever-dynamic and evolving public administration career field.

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Books and Resources for this Week

Rosenbloom, D. H. (2015).

Administrative law for public managers.

Boulder, Colorado : Westview Press,

2015. Link

Metzger, G. E. (2015). Through the

looking glass to a shared reflection: The

evolving relationship between

administrative law and financial... Link

Wansley, M. T. (2016). Regulation of

emerging risks. Vanderbilt Law Review,

69(2), 401-478. Link

Week 7 - Assignment: Explain Future Regulatory

Challenges Assignment

Be sure to review this week's resources carefully. You are expected to apply the

information from these resources when you prepare your assignments.

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Be sure to review this week's resources carefully. You are expected to apply the

information from these resources when you prepare your assignments.

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Due August 1 at 11:59 PM

For this assignment, you are once again a graduate-level teaching assistant for the

freshman-level Public Administration 101 course at a traditional state university. This

week's lecture will be the last class lecture of the semester before the review for the final

exam. Your task is to develop another concise presentation for the same 45-50

undergraduate students.

Include the following in your lecture:

Explain what you envision as the most significant challenges facing tomorrow's

public administrators as you look towards the future.

Determine if ever-evolving technologies aid or detract from the collection of

regulatory data. Specify how professional bureaucrats should navigate the ever-

shifting political landscape while ensuring continued transparency, due process,

and equal protection against the backdrop of hyper-partisan politics and

increasingly vocal, engaged interest groups.

Incorporate appropriate animations, transitions, and graphics as well as speaker notes for

each slide. The speaker notes may be comprised of brief paragraphs or bulleted lists and

should cite material appropriately. Add audio to each slide using the Media section of the

Insert tab in the top menu bar for each slide.

Support your presentation with at least five scholarly resources. In addition to these

specified resources, other appropriate scholarly resources may be included.

Length: 12-15 slides (with a separate reference slide)

Notes Length: 200-350 words for each slide

Be sure to include citations for quotations and paraphrases with references in APA format

and style where appropriate. Save the file as PPT with the correct course code

information. Upload your document, and then click the Submit to Dropbox button.

Upload your document and click the Submit to Dropbox button.