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...

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...

Researchers have found that a person?s IQ and classroom performance is at best a moderate predictor of long term...

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

What goes on in city government is in many ways more important to our lives than what happens in Washington. This course goes beyond the structure and theory of municipal government to look at how things really happen at the local...

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The aim of this lecture course is to introduce students to the manner in which science and technology issues both shape and are shaped by public...

This course examines the extent, causes, and consequences of poverty in the U.S. and current and proposed strategies to address non-elderly poverty. We review the evolution of social welfare policy in the...

This seminar examines environmental and energy policies. We discuss the sources of environmental problems and what regulations are available to remedy these...

The Senior Colloquium will follow the debate that ensues from the release of the Report of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform on December...