Managers, particularly as they move to higher-level responsibility, are increasingly called upon to deal with issues involving governmental actions, media attention and public scrutiny.
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 not?
This course seeks to make students sensitive to and articulate about the ways in which moral and political values come into play in the American policy process, particularly as they affect non-elected public officials who work in a world shaped by po
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 policy.
This course would explore related and sometimes competing legal and policy frameworks for the development and dissemination of ideas and expression in the Information Age.
The Applied Policy Seminar (APS) (now called Strategic Public Policy Consulting or SPPC) is an opportunity for students to conduct a faculty-supervised consulting project for a public, private, or non-profit sector policy organization at the local
This introduction to program evaluation and multiple regression analysis trains students to critically consume empirical studies and conduct their own empirical research.
Since the 2008 financial crisis, developed countries have suffered high unemployment and slow growth. What are options for policymakers in this environment?
This course teaches the norms of policy writing to 1st year policy students. Through small workshops, students will analyze approaches to different types of policy writing.
This course begins a two-term sequence designed to provide students with an understanding of the economic implications of public policies and with analytic tools useful in system design and policy planning.
This course is designed to immerse students in a major research project of their own design. By the end of the two-semester course, students will be required to produce a polished paper, which can later be incorporated into their thesis.
This section of 510 aims to help you better understand policy analysis and the political environment within a context of American domestic politics at the national level.
Public Policy 821 is intended as a complement (and not a substitute) for Applied Econometrics 675 and similar courses in other schools and departments.
