As national concern for addressing global warming grows, more and more Americans are looking for governmental action to speed a transition to low-carbon energy...
This course will explore the legal enforcement of those human rights that are fundamental and are the birthright of all human beings. We will review the international political and legal framework established over the past fifty years to...
This is a course on how economists think about government revenue and government expenditures ? how governments raise and spend public money. Public Finance is a subfield of...
How are the inherent and intersecting relations of power including inherent structures of dominance related to the experience of violence, oppression and resistance textured into the context of politics and policy...
This course can be taken in-person or remotely online.
The purpose of PubPol 683 is to examine campaigns and explain what happens and why. Remember: There is no policy without...
No large American city grew more rapidly than Detroit from 1900 to the 1930s. Thanks to Henry Ford and the automobile manufacturing, Detroit became the prosperous axis mundi of the world vehicle industry. After World War II,...
This course provides an overview of international financial economics, developing analytic tools and concepts that can be used to analyze world economic policy...
A continuation of PubPol 555 (Micro A), this course will deepen students’ understanding of key economic concepts and principles and – importantly – apply them to the practice of policy...
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...
This course examines environmental and energy policies. We discuss the sources of environmental problems and what regulations are available to remedy these problems. We also cover energy markets, including fossil fuel extraction and...
This course will provide students with a practical hands-on instruction in the analysis of survey data using the statistical package Stata. Students will learn how to investigate a variety of public policy issues using data from the...
Instructor: Katherine (Kat) Walsh, director of student engagement and director of diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives, U-M Office of University Development...
This course will examine how the U.S. and other international actors seek to help pacify, stabilize, and rebuild societies embroiled or emerging from...
