This course focuses on what a practitioner needs to know about multiple regression analysis, a key tool for policy analysis. It is an introduction to econometrics that is less mathematical and theoretical than PUBPOL...

An analysis, from the business and government policy perspectives, of some of the largest government programs that shape the economic...

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...

This course covers the policy issues involved in the areas of defense, deterrence, and arms control in the contemporary...

This course reviews the international political and legal framework established over the past fifty years to protect human...

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

This course would explore related and sometimes competing legal and policy frameworks for the development and dissemination of ideas and expression in the Information...

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 focuses on three issues that are at the heart of current efforts to reform American...

(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...