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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 686

PUBPOL 686: State and Local Policy Analysis: Focus on Development

Elisabeth Gerber

The purpose of this course is to expose students to various perspectives on state and local policy in the U.S. through the lens of one especially topical policy area: development...

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 674-001

PUBPOL 674-001: 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 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...

PUBPOL 678

PUBPOL 678: Policy Advocacy

Richard Hall

A course on the strategy and tactics of governmental outsiders who seek to influence public...

PUBPOL 674-001

PUBPOL 674-001: 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 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 475

PUBPOL 475: Topics in Public Policy: Congress and State Legislatures: Effective or Outmoded?

John Schwarz

Topics in Public Policy. The course will focus on a selected topic in domestic or international policy. Topics will vary from term to term. In Fall 2007, the topic will be Congress and State Legislatures: Effective or...

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 585

PUBPOL 585: Political Environment of Policymaking

Ann Chih Lin

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

PUBPOL 653

PUBPOL 653: Global Environment Governance

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

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 692

PUBPOL 692: Thinking About Crime

David Thacher

As Chief of the New York City Police Department, William Bratton was fond of saying that the crime rate has the same meaning for a police department as profits have for a business--that the crime rate is the bottom line of...

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 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 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...

PUBPOL 678

PUBPOL 678: Policy Advocacy

Richard Hall

A course on the strategy and tactics of governmental outsiders who seek to influence public...

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 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 650

PUBPOL 650: Introduction to Science and Technology Policy Analysis

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 201

PUBPOL 201: Systematic Thinking About The Problems of the Day

Paul Courant

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

Yazier Henry

PUBPOL 678

PUBPOL 678: Policy Advocacy

Richard Hall

A course on the strategy and tactics of governmental outsiders who seek to influence public...

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 421

PUBPOL 421: Religion, Politics, & Public Policy

Ann Chih Lin

This course will examine the sometimes supportive, sometimes antagonistic relationship between religion and the...