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PUBPOL 624

PUBPOL 624: Media, Public Opinion, and Foreign Policy

This course will investigate the various means, both direct and indirect, through which the mass media and public opinion can influence the foreign policy making...

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 717

PUBPOL 717: Social Activism, Democracy, and Globalization from the Perspective of the Global South

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 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 682

PUBPOL 682: Leadership & Communication in State-level Policy Making

This course examines the interaction of politics and policymaking at the state...

PubPol 495.003

PubPol 495.003: Policy Seminar: Human Rights

Susan Waltz

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PUBPOL 422

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

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 495.002

PubPol 495.002: Policy Seminar: History of Policy

Joy Rohde

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PUBPOL 422

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

PUBPOL 677

PUBPOL 677: Immigration Policy

Ann Chih Lin

Immigration is a phenomenon that touches upon every aspect of American society, from economic growth to neighborhood institutions to national...

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 650

PUBPOL 650: Introduction to Science and Technology Policy Analysis

Shobita Parthasarathy

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 580.001

PUBPOL 580.001: 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 510

PUBPOL 510: The Politics of Public Policy

Barry Rabe

Policy analysis is a profession that brings systematic thinking and social scientific evidence to bear on substantive problems, but policymakers seldom defer to expert...

PUBPOL 475.004

PUBPOL 475.004: Utopianism & Public Policy

“Utopia” in Greek means both “good place” and “no place”—a paradise existing only in our imaginations. But no matter how theoretical or fanciful utopias may be, people still try to implement them, often with tragic...

PUBPOL 750.005

PUBPOL 750.005: New:Topics: Working in an Embassy

Meets second 7...

PUBPOL 580.002

PUBPOL 580.002: Values, Ethics, and Public Policy

Megan Tompkins-Stange

PUBPOL 510.001

PUBPOL 510.001: The Politics of Public Policy

Ann Chih Lin

This section of 510 follows the policymaking process after legislators claim credit and the TV cameras shut down: the work of trying to implement and interpret the...

PUBPOL 756

PUBPOL 756: Local Government, Opportunity for Activism

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 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 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 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 625

PUBPOL 625: The Legislative Branch: Structure and Current Issues

This course will deal primarily with the Legislative Branch of Government at both the State and Federal levels. Legislative strategies and the possible outcomes of those strategies will be...

PUBPOL 475.002

PUBPOL 475.002: Topics: The Politics of Identity

Mara Ostfeld

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PUBPOL 456

PUBPOL 456: Local Government, Opportunity for Activism

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 628/Educ 628

PubPol 628/Educ 628: Democracy and Education

David Cohen

Democracy and Education --- When Americans write about democracy and education, they typically write about the constructive effects that education can have for democracy by improving future citizens' knowledge, political judgment, capacity for...

PubPol 750.005

PubPol 750.005: Topics: Civil Rights Policy in the U.S.

Ann Chih Lin

This course explores various approaches to civil rights policy, including efforts to prevent discrimination, to "level the playing field," to create equality, and to provide...

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...