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...

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

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

(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...

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

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...

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

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

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,...

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