The second option for your final portfolio project in this course entails an investigation referred to as comparative public administration. Comparative public administration entails juxtaposing and contrasting similar agencies, from different nations, and determining how the two national agencies could learn from one another through the adoption of the best practices of the other (also referred to as benchmarking).

An example would be to compare an American intelligence agency to the Britain’s military intelligence, Section 5.Your comparative contrast of the agencies should include some analysis and mentioning of the cultural contexts and environments that have come together and coalesced to provide the formal and informal organizational cultures of each agency.

Finally, consider the notion of benchmarking. What could the two agencies that you have compared learn from one another and why?

Write a ten-page paper with seven source citations from your textbook, relevant government websites, and/or academic peer-reviewed journal articles retrieved from the university library databases.