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

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,...

In the first part of the course you will be introduced to some of the analytic frameworks and conceptual theories used to study American public policy making and you will learn how these models were applied to a classic public policy...

This course introduces key policy issues in international macroeconomics and finance. We will develop analytic tools that are the building blocks for understanding global economic policy...

The course will focus on urban policy and economic development issues in the Detroit metropolitan...

Randomized control trials in field settings (field experiments) are a powerful research methodology that is shedding new light on a wide variety of development problems...

Over the past several decades, the nonprofit sector has grown dramatically in wealth, size, and...

This course covers current and planned government anti-poverty...

Students will critically examine successes and failures in health care reform in the United States over the last...

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...