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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 621

PubPol 621: Peacebuilding: Law, Diplomacy, and the Transition from Conflict

This course will examine how the U.S. and other international actors seek to help pacify, stabilize, and rebuild societies embroiled or emerging from...

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 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 475.003

PubPol 475.003: 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 466

PubPol 466: 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 495.001

PubPol 495.001: Policy Seminar: Dangerous Peacemaking: Managing Political Transitions, Social Justice and Democratic Systems

Yazier Henry

This course will focus on five transitional societies in Africa and the Middle East emerging (or in the midst of) from national nightmares: South Africa, Rwanda; the DRC; Egypt and...

PubPol 495.002

PubPol 495.002: Policy Seminar: Immigration Reform

Ann Chih Lin

Policy seminars are open only to undergraduates enrolled in the Ford School. These small, interdisciplinary courses will focus on particular public policy issues as reflected in the title of the...

PubPol 495.003

PubPol 495.003: Policy Seminar: History and Public Policy

Policy seminars are open only to undergraduates enrolled in the Ford School. These small, interdisciplinary courses will focus on particular public policy issues as reflected in the title of the...

PubPol 510

PubPol 510: The Politics of Public Policy

Richard Hall

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 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 780.002

PubPol 780.002: Topics in Policymaking: Trade agreements and negotiations as a policy instrument

International trade policy can influence a country´s economic performance. Many countries have entered agreements, legally binding and more enforceable than other international law, by which they reciprocally commit their trade policies…and...

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 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 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 780

PubPol 780: Topics in Policymaking: Trade agreements and negotiations as a policy instrument

PubPol 475.002

PubPol 475.002: Topics: Global Issues: Drugs, Crime, and Terrorism

Melvyn Levitsky

Students will explore the global issues of illegal drugs and drug trafficking, international crime and terrorism. Course content emphasizes the study of organizations and networks, policy formulation and implementation, national and...

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 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 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 750.001

PUBPOL 750.001: Topics: Local Govt Leadership in Times of Change

This is a Special Topics course and the topic may change each term. FALL 2012: Local Government Leadership in Times of Change Study the role of leadership in local government during times of significant...

PUBPOL 456

PUBPOL 456: Local Government, Opportunity for Activism

John Hieftje

PubPol 466

PubPol 466: Topics: The History and Future of Detroit

Detroit was the nation’s most important city in the Twentieth Century because 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 495.001

PubPol 495.001: Policy Seminar: Political Advocacy

Richard Hall

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

PUBPOL 580.002

PUBPOL 580.002: Values, Ethics, and Public Policy

Megan Tompkins-Stange

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 625

PubPol 625: The Legislative Branch: Structure and Current Issues

John Schwarz

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 585

PUBPOL 585: Political Environment of Policymaking

Ann Chih Lin

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

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 732

PUBPOL 732: Public Policy in Post-Secondary Education

In the first part of the course you will be introduced to some of the analytic frameworks and conceptual theories used to study American public policy making and you will learn how these models were applied to a classic public policy...

PUBPOL 756

PUBPOL 756: Local Government, Opportunity for Activism

John Hieftje