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PUBPOL 642

PUBPOL 642: Socioeconomic Policy and Health Policy

James House
This course explores how and why socioeconomic policies (e.g., education, income/welfare, civil rights, macroeconomics/employment, housing/urban policies) may be as or more consequential for population health as “health” policies (i.e., health...
PUBPOL 692

PUBPOL 692: Thinking About Crime

David Thacher
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...
PubPol 750.006

PubPol 750.006: Topics: Leadership and Grand Strategy

This course is designed to acquaint students with the fundamentals of grand strategy; that is, with the political uses of military power and the respective roles of military and civilian leaders in formulating and implementing a state’s foreign...
PubPol 628/Educ 628

PubPol 628/Educ 628: Democracy and Education

David Cohen
Democracy and Education --- 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...