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PUBPOL 534

PUBPOL 534: The Economics of Developing Countries

Dean Yang

This course surveys what we do and don't know about economic growth and poverty alleviation in developing countries. We begin by discussing alternative perspectives on the goals of...

PUBPOL 541

PUBPOL 541: International Trade Policy

This course examines the policy issues of international trade, including trade in both goods and services and also international flows of direct investment and...

PUBPOL 563/NRE686/HMP686

PUBPOL 563/NRE686/HMP686: Politics of Environmental Regulation

Barry Rabe

This course will consider the capacity of North American political institutions to shape effective environmental protection policies, devoting primary emphasis to the United States but also examining Canada and...

PUBPOL 569

PUBPOL 569: Applied Regression Analysis

John Chamberlin

This course focuses on what a practitioner needs to know about multiple regression analysis, a key tool for policy analysis. It is an introduction to econometrics that is less mathematical and theoretical than PUBPOL...

PUBPOL 571

PUBPOL 571: Applied Econometrics

This course is an introduction to econometric methods and their use in policy...

PUBPOL 636

PUBPOL 636: Program Evaluation

Elisabeth Gerber

The central issues addressed by this course are whether and how one ought to try to establish the extent to which public programs are achieving their goals. Are the goals being attained? If not, why...

PUBPOL 673

PUBPOL 673: International Security Affairs

Robert Axelrod

This course covers the policy issues involved in the areas of defense, deterrence, and arms control in the contemporary...

PUBPOL 675

PUBPOL 675: Human Rights and International Public Policy

Susan Waltz

This course reviews the international political and legal framework established over the past fifty years to protect human...

PUBPOL 686

PUBPOL 686: State and Local Policy Analysis: Focus on Development

Elisabeth Gerber

The purpose of this course is to expose students to various perspectives on state and local policy in the U.S. through the lens of one especially topical policy area: development...

PUBPOL 688

PUBPOL 688: Intellectual Property and Information Law

This course would explore related and sometimes competing legal and policy frameworks for the development and dissemination of ideas and expression in the Information...

PUBPOL 692

PUBPOL 692: Thinking About Crime

David Thacher

As Chief of the New York City Police Department, William Bratton was fond of saying that the crime rate has the same meaning for a police department as profits have for a business--that the crime rate is the bottom line of...

PUBPOL 736

PUBPOL 736: Poverty & Inequality

Mary Corcoran

This course analyzes the conditions and causes of poverty within the United States and the variety of economic, social, and political responses to...

PUBPOL 730

PUBPOL 730: Women & Employment Policy

Mary Corcoran

This course reviews the literature on sex differences from a biological, social, and legal...

PUBPOL 731

PUBPOL 731: Distance Learning Project for Quantitative Social Science in South Africa

(2 Credits for class portion) -- This is a year-long course devoted to developing an internet-based course to promote quantitative social science in South...

PUBPOL 735

PUBPOL 735: Managing Professional Relationships

The goal of this course is to enhance the students' ability to bring about the individual and organizational changes they want to...

PUBPOL 747-001

PUBPOL 747-001: International Macro/Financial Problems and Policies

This is the first of two separate half-term seminars, which may be taken together or separately. Recent topics have included the determinants of the...

PUBPOL 751-001

PUBPOL 751-001: Chinese Foreign Policy

This part of the course introduces students to continuity and change in China's foreign policy, focusing on the reform...

PUBPOL 810

PUBPOL 810: Policy Research Seminar

A bi-weekly one-credit seminar that introduces students to applied policy research. For students in the Ford School Joint Ph.D....

PUBPOL 720/SI 621

PUBPOL 720/SI 621: Ethics, Values & Information Dilemmas

The information revolution and the expanding use of information technology within all organizations, profit and non-profit, public and private, has created an environment in which access to massive quantities of information, at startling speeds,...

PUBPOL 751-002

PUBPOL 751-002: China

China’s reform and opening-up has been a great event in the world in the past more than two...

PUBPOL 747-002

PUBPOL 747-002: Issues and Options for Multilateral, Regional, and Bilateral Trade Liberalization

This is the second of two separate half-term seminars, which may be taken together or...

PUBPOL 500/SNRE 575

PUBPOL 500/SNRE 575: Thinking Analytically for Policy and Decision

The course will develop the skills of using analytic methods and models to understand real decisions and policy issues, drawn from the realms of natural resource management, public policy, business strategy, politics, negotiations, and...

PUBPOL 519/SNRE 574

PUBPOL 519/SNRE 574: Sustainable Energy Systems

Assessment of the current energy systems that encompasses resource extraction, conversion processes and...

PUBPOL 515/BE 550

PUBPOL 515/BE 550: Non-Market Strategy: Setting the Rules of the Game

Managers, particularly as they move to higher-level responsibility, are increasingly called upon to deal with issues involving governmental actions, media attention and public...

PUBPOL 533

PUBPOL 533: Public Health in Developing Countries

This course will focus on public health policy primarily in the developing world. We will begin by reviewing epidemiological and demographic evidence on the leading causes of mortality and morbidity...

PUBPOL 756

PUBPOL 756: Local Government, Opportunity for Activism

John Hieftje

What goes on in city government is in many ways more important to our lives than what happens in Washington. This course goes beyond the structure and theory of municipal government to look at how things really happen at the local...

PUBPOL 683

PUBPOL 683: Elections and Campaigns

Gerald Hills

There is no policy without victory. More precisely, well-planned and well-executed political campaigns win elections and make governing...

PUBPOL 650

PUBPOL 650: Introduction to Science and Technology Policy Analysis

As it exposes students to the landscape of science and technology policymaking in the US and abroad, this course introduces theories and methodologies for science and technology policy analysis, with literature drawn from a range of disciplines,...

PUBPOL 201

PUBPOL 201: Systematic Thinking About The Problems of the Day

Paul Courant

The main idea that we want to get across is implicit in the title: Systematic thinking - largely from the social sciences, but with the application of scientific methods and knowledge more generally - can make a difference in the way that we...

PUBPOL 766

PUBPOL 766: Issues in U.S. National Security

Melvyn Levitsky

This course concentrates on the foreign policy aspects of U.S. National Security. We will study the Cold War preface to current policy as well as broad issues of substance and process affecting national security...

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