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PUBPOL 716.002

PUBPOL 716.002: Introduction to Chinese Policy Tour

In the second portion of the course, Ford School students will travel to Beijing, China for 12 days to learn more about China through meetings with business and government leaders, sessions with Renmin faculty, and exploration of Chinese cultural...

PUBPOL 716.001

PUBPOL 716.001: Introduction to Chinese Policy

This first portion of the course, held in Ann Arbor, will introduce students to China and its policy and economic environments. Drawing on the expertise of Ford School faculty and outside guests, each class will focus on a different policy...

PUBPOL 674

PUBPOL 674: Economic and Social Policies in a Selected Emerging Market Economy

This course developed from an initiative of the International Policy Students Association (IPSA) at the Ford School of Public Policy. It will be in two...

PUBPOL 201

PUBPOL 201: Systematic Thinking About The Problems of the Day

Paul Courant

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 difference in the way that we...

PubPol 716.001

PubPol 716.001: Introduction to Chinese Policy

Ann Chih Lin

PUBPOL 674

PUBPOL 674: Economic and Social Policies in a Selected Emerging Market Economy

Melvyn Levitsky

This course developed from an initiative of the International Policy Students Association (IPSA) at the Ford School of Public Policy. It will be in two...

PUBPOL 650

PUBPOL 650: Introduction to Science and Technology Policy Analysis

Joy Rohde

As it exposes students to the landscape of science and technology policymaking in the US and abroad, this course introduces theories and methodologies for science and technology policy analysis, with literature drawn from a range of disciplines,...

PUBPOL 556

PUBPOL 556: Macroeconomics

Joshua Hausman

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PUBPOL 542

PUBPOL 542: International Financial Policy

Kathryn Dominguez

This course provides an overview of international financial economics, developing analytic tools and concepts that can be used to analyze world economic policy...

PUBPOL 560

PUBPOL 560: Foreign Policy and the Management of International Relations

Susan Waltz

Foreign Policy and the Management of International Relations This course examines alternative institutions and strategies through which nations articulate, either cooperatively or competitively, their foreign policy...

PUBPOL 580

PUBPOL 580: Values, Ethics, and Public Policy

David Thacher

This course seeks to make students sensitive to and articulate about the ways in which moral and political values come into play in the American policy process, particularly as they affect non-elected public officials who work in a world shaped...

PUBPOL 673

PUBPOL 673: International Security Affairs

Robert Axelrod

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

PUBPOL 675

PUBPOL 675: Human Rights and International Public Policy

Susan Waltz

This course reviews the international political and legal framework established over the past fifty years to protect human...

PUBPOL 650

PUBPOL 650: Introduction to Science and Technology Policy Analysis

PubPol 621

PubPol 621: Peacebuilding: Law, Diplomacy, and the Transition from Conflict

This course will examine how the U.S. and other international actors seek to help pacify, stabilize, and rebuild societies embroiled or emerging from...

PUBPOL 766

PUBPOL 766: Issues in U.S. National Security

Melvyn Levitsky

This course concentrates on the foreign policy aspects of U.S. National Security. We will study the Cold War preface to current policy as well as broad issues of substance and process affecting national security...

PUBPOL 320

PUBPOL 320: Politics, Political Institutions, and Public Policy

Charles Shipan

This course prepares students to understand the political and institutional environmental within which public policy is formulated and...

PUBPOL 655

PUBPOL 655: Energy in World Politics

Pubpol 655: Energy in World Politics Instructor: Dan Plafcan, [email protected] M/W 1:00-2:30, 1210 Weill Hall This seminar course explores the development, use, and governance of energy systems throughout...

PUBPOL 580

PUBPOL 580: Values, Ethics, and Public Policy

John Chamberlin

PUBPOL 653

PUBPOL 653: Global Environment Governance

In the past 50 years, states have signed hundreds of international environmental...

PUBPOL 654

PUBPOL 654: Science and Technology in International Affairs

This course examines the many ways in which international affairs is intertwined with science and technology, both in theory and in practice. The course proceeds in three...

PubPol 510.004

PubPol 510.004: The Politics of Public Policy

Susan Waltz

In exploring such questions, this course aims to provide: • Familiarity with concepts and perspectives commonly used in the study and practice of international relations and foreign policy • Familiarity with global institutions that comprise the...

PubPol 510.002

PubPol 510.002: The Politics of Public Policy

Shobita Parthasarathy

Overall, the course trains students: • To assess the factors of a political environment relevant to policy advocacy and...

PUBPOL 580.002

PUBPOL 580.002: Values, Ethics, and Public Policy

Megan Tompkins-Stange

PubPol 510.003

PubPol 510.003: The Politics of Public Policy

Shobita Parthasarathy

Note: PubPol 510 combines and replaces content previously offered in PubPol 585 and 560. PubPol 510 is now the required core politics...

PUBPOL 580.002

PUBPOL 580.002: Values, Ethics, and Public Policy

Megan Tompkins-Stange

PUBPOL 556

PUBPOL 556: Macroeconomics

Kathryn Dominguez

This course teaches students the basic tools of macroeconomics and how to apply them to real world economic...

PubPol 475.001

PubPol 475.001: Topics: Economic Policy Issues in Developing Countries

Susan Collins

OVERVIEW: Economic development policy seeks to improve the welfare of a population – usually interpreted as inducing rapid and sustained economic growth (creating wealth) and alleviating poverty (spreading...

PubPol 780.002

PubPol 780.002: Topics in Policymaking: Trade agreements and negotiations as a policy instrument

International trade policy can influence a country´s economic performance. Many countries have entered agreements, legally binding and more enforceable than other international law, by which they reciprocally commit their trade policies…and...

PUBPOL 674-002

PUBPOL 674-002: Economic and Social Policies in a Selected Emerging Market Economy

This course developed from an initiative of the International Policy Students Association (IPSA) at the Ford School of Public Policy. It will be in two...