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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 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 676

PUBPOL 676: International Politics of Poverty and Development

Susan Waltz

This course examines alternative approaches to the study of poverty and development. Attention is directed primarily to problems confronted in the global South, with some comparative perspective on Western industrialized...

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 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 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 320

PUBPOL 320: Politics, Political Institutions, and Public Policy

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 510.001

PubPol 510.001: The Politics of Public Policy

Richard Hall

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

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 510.002

PubPol 510.002: The Politics of Public Policy

Ann Chih Lin

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

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 510.004

PubPol 510.004: The Politics of Public Policy

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

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 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 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 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 475.003

PubPol 475.003: Topics: The History and Future of Detroit

Detroit was the nation’s most important city in the Twentieth Century because of the the auto industry, the emergence of the blue collar middle class and development of the New Deal. Now it is the most negatively stereotyped city in the...

PubPol 475.002

PubPol 475.002: Topics: Trade policy as an instrument for economic development

In this course, and largely borrowing on the experience of the professor as Trade Minister in a small, middle-income country, we will discuss the practical links between trade policy and the variety of issues that challenge poor societies in...

PubPol 626

PubPol 626: The History and Future of Detroit

No metropolis played a greater role in shaping the Twentieth Century world than did Detroit. This course focuses upon the history and future of Detroit emphasizing the private and governmental policies that now seek to revitalize the...

PUBPOL 751.001

PUBPOL 751.001: Chinese Foreign Policy

This part of the course introduces students to continuity and change in China's foreign policy, focusing on the reform...

PUBPOL 766

PUBPOL 766: Issues in U.S. National Security

Melvyn Levitsky

PubPol 750.002&750.003

PubPol 750.002&750.003: Topics: Detroit Policy Workshop

The course will focus on urban policy and economic development issues in the Detroit metropolitan...

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 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 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 456

PUBPOL 456: 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 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 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 (depart May 1, 2011, return May 13, 2011) to learn more about China through meetings with business and government leaders, sessions with Renmin...