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PUBPOL 422

PUBPOL 422: Congress and State Legislatures: Effective or Outmoded?

John Schwarz

Is Congress too partisan? Can Congress fulfill its legislative and oversight functions? Do the executive and judicial branches effectively control public policy formulation? Have the State Legislatures become the true "laboratories of...

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 560

PUBPOL 560: Foreign Policy and the Management of International Relations

Susan Waltz

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

John Chamberlin

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 585

PUBPOL 585: Political Environment of Policymaking

Shobita Parthasarathy

This course focuses on the political environment within which policy analysis takes...

PUBPOL 587

PUBPOL 587: Public Management

David Thacher

This course is designed to introduce the students to what public managers do and to help provide the students with perspectives and opportunities for practice that will help them become effective public...

PUBPOL 717

PUBPOL 717: Humanising History

Yazier Henry

How are the inherent and intersecting relations of power including inherent structures of dominance related to the experience of violence, oppression and resistance textured into the context of politics and policy...

PUBPOL 756

PUBPOL 756: Local Government, Opportunity for Activism

John Hieftje

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...

PUBPOL 770

PUBPOL 770: History and Domestic Policymaking

This course focuses on how historians have viewed and participated in the policymaking...

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 683

PUBPOL 683: Elections and Campaigns

Gerald Hills

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

PUBPOL 695

PUBPOL 695: Education Policy

David Cohen

This course focuses on three issues that are at the heart of current efforts to reform American...

PubPol 422

PubPol 422: Congress & State Legislatures

John Schwarz

Is Congress too partisan? Can Congress fulfill its legislative and oversight functions? Do the executive and judicial branches effectively control public policy...

PUBPOL 763

PUBPOL 763: GLobal Issues: Drugs, Crime, and Terrorism

Melvyn Levitsky

This course will explore the global issues of illegal drugs, crime and terrorism. Course content emphasizes policy options, formulation and implementation, and the tools and skills needed to produce effective recommendations for decision...

PUBPOL 766

PUBPOL 766: Issues in U.S. National Security

Melvyn Levitsky

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 475-003

PubPol 475-003: Senior Colloquium

John Chamberlin

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...

PUBPOL 423

PUBPOL 423: Political Campaign Strategies and Tactics

Gerald Hills

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

PUBPOL 456

PUBPOL 456: Local Government, Opportunity for Activism

John Hieftje

PUBPOL 717

PUBPOL 717: Humanising History

Yazier Henry

How do individuals, communities and nations remember and represent the past? How is the relationship between history, memory and forgetting displaced through the very forms of socio-cultural production that inscribe...

PUBPOL 780-001

PUBPOL 780-001: Topics in Policymaking: Economic Development Issues in Latin America

Instructor: Alberto...

PUBPOL 780-002

PUBPOL 780-002: Topics in Policymaking: Negotiation of International Trade Agreements

International trade agreements are proliferating. By the end of the decade, there will be at least 400 such instruments in place...

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 683

PUBPOL 683: Elections and Campaigns

Gerald Hills

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

PUBPOL 750-001

PUBPOL 750-001: Topics in Public Policy: The Legislative Branch, Structure & Current Issues

John Schwarz

Coming...

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 significant difference in the way...

PubPol 475-001

PubPol 475-001: Topics: The U.S. Presidency

The President is at the center of almost every major policy enacted by the government. But how each president chooses to exercise that power and utilize their office is very...

PUBPOL 815

PUBPOL 815: Governance and Implementation

Ann Chih Lin

This course will explore public policy governance and implementation through current interdisciplinary literature and case examples. The aim is to give...

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...