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...

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

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

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

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

Public Policy 821 is intended as a complement (and not a substitute) for Applied Econometrics 675 and similar courses in other schools and...

This course is designed to immerse students in a major research project of their own design. By the end of the two-semester course, students will be required to produce a polished paper, which can later be incorporated into their...

This course will examine the higher education sector from several different angles, but with an emphasis placed on the economic...