This course examines crime and criminal justice policy in the United States. In the first part of the course, we will develop a framework for evaluating criminal justice policy organized around four values: Safety, censure, liberty, and...

This course presents a global perspective on the history and politics of nuclear...

States enjoy enormous away over education, transportation, health care, and other policies. Politicians and interest groups that shape decisions differ in many respects to those active at the federal and local...

The goal of this course is to provide a framework for interpreting public discourse on energy...

Environmental Values in Public Policy explores the ways in which environmental values become embedded in public...

Basic economic principles and methods are used to identify the circumstances in which government intervention can improve industrial efficiency, and to investigate successful and unsuccessful regulatory...

This course explores the use of experiments and quasi-experiments in education...

Looking at international development, as well as domestic urban and rural development, this course examines the role of technology in development and the implications for public...

When Americans write about democracy and education, they typically write about the constructive effects that education can have for democracy by improving future citizens' knowledge, political judgment, capacity for independent thought, and by...

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