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PUBPOL 563/NRE686/HMP686

PUBPOL 563/NRE686/HMP686: Politics of Environmental Regulation

Barry Rabe

This course will consider the capacity of North American political institutions to shape effective environmental protection policies, devoting primary emphasis to the United States but also examining Canada and...

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 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 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 563/NRE686/HMP686

PUBPOL 563/NRE686/HMP686: Politics of Environmental Regulation

Barry Rabe

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 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

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 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 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

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

Ann Chih Lin

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

PUBPOL 768

PUBPOL 768: Efforts at Health Care Reform in the US

Students will critically examine successes and failures in health care reform in the United States over the last...

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 674-001

PUBPOL 674-001: Economic and Social Policies in a Selected Emerging Market Economy

Susan Waltz

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

Susan Waltz

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 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...

PUBPOL 750-001

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

John Schwarz

(Description will be available soon.) Joe Schwarz will teach this class in Winter...

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 201

PUBPOL 201: Systematic Thinking About The Problems of the Day

Paul Courant

PUBPOL 320

PUBPOL 320: Politics, Political Institutions, and Public Policy

Richard Hall

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

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 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...