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...

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...

The main idea that we want to get across is implicit in the title: Systematic thinking - largely from the social sciences, but with the application of scientific methods and knowledge more generally - can make a significant difference in the way...