Michigan’s local government leaders report generally good relationships among officials and residents, despite well-documented examples of coarsening discourse and antagonism in public gatherings, according to a new University of Michigan...

For the third year in a row, University of Michigan students tackled policy-relevant questions posed by the U.S. State Department officials in Diplomacy Lab (DipLab) projects.  In the Winter 2022 term, graduate and undergraduate students formed...

We are accustomed to thinking of public policy as a remedy for social ills.  We notice a problem---undereducated youth, roads in disrepair, or bureaucratic hurdles to small business---and we design and implement policy to remedy the...

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...

The decisionmaking process for national security is a complex subject that involves the intersection of several factors to include the role of the President, the National Security Council,...

Governments increasingly use algorithms (such as machine learning predictions) as a central tool to distribute resources and make important...

Researchers, policymakers, and publics look to science and technology to address some of society?s most pressing challenges, from climate change to national security to  economic growth. But such efforts are also...

Because law is one of the means through which policies are enacted, understanding the different structures of legal systems is a necessary for understanding policy promulgation in different...

This is a course for students interested in social justice and equality, social justice movements, anti-democratic movements and the intersections of public leadership, public policy, and the rule of law in the context of the temporal evolution...