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PUBPOL 744

PUBPOL 744.001: Economics of the Public Sector

Betsey Stevenson

This is a course on how economists think about government revenue and government expenditures — how governments raise and spend public money. Public Finance is a subfield of...

PUBPOL 736

PUBPOL 736.001: Poverty & Inequality

Natasha Pilkauskas

This course examines the nature, extent and causes of poverty and inequality in the US relying on a multidisciplinary literature from sociology, political science, economics, and...

PUBPOL 730

PUBPOL 730.001: Women & Employment Policy

Mary Corcoran

This course reviews the literature on sex differences from a biological, social, and legal...

PUBPOL 717

PUBPOL 717.001: 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 712

PUBPOL 712.001: Causal Inference in Education Policy Research: Preschool, Elementary and Secondary

This course focuses on rigorous evaluation of policies and interventions intended to support children's early learning and success in K-12. Evaluations will be discussed in the context of the current and historical...

PUBPOL 692

PUBPOL 692.001: 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 683

PUBPOL 683.001: 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 682.001: Leadership & Communication in State-level Policy Making

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

PUBPOL 639

PUBPOL 639.001: Quantitative Methods of Program Evaluation

Brian Jacob

This introduction to program evaluation and multiple regression analysis trains students to critically consume empirical studies and conduct their own empirical...

PUBPOL 587

PUBPOL 587.101: Public Management

Megan Tompkins-Stange

All sections of public management emphasize common themes such as performance management, strategic planning, and inter-institutional network...

PUBPOL 580

PUBPOL 580.002: Values, Ethics, and Public Policy

David Thacher

This is a core course restricted to Ford School students...

PUBPOL 580

PUBPOL 580.001: Values, Ethics, and Public Policy

Joy Rohde

This is a core course restricted to Ford School students...

PUBPOL 578

PUBPOL 578.003: Applied Policy Seminar

Applied Policy Seminar (APS) (now called Strategic Public Policy Consulting or SPPC) is an opportunity for students to conduct a faculty-supervised consulting project for a public, private, or non-profit sector policy organization at the...

PUBPOL 578

PUBPOL 578.002: Applied Policy Seminar

The Applied Policy Seminar (APS) (now called Strategic Public Policy Consulting or SPPC) is an opportunity for students to conduct a faculty-supervised consulting project for a public, private, or non-profit sector policy organization at the...

PUBPOL 578

PUBPOL 578.001: Applied Policy Seminar

Elisabeth Gerber

PUBPOL 201

PUBPOL 201.001: Systematic Thinking

Richard Hall

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 210

PUBPOL 210.001: Hlt&Society:Intro PH

This course is intended to serve as an introduction to the major issues of health and health care in the United States — what they are, what determines them, and how they can be altered. In so doing, the course surveys the field of public...

PUBPOL 250

PUBPOL 250.001: SocialSystems&Energy

The goal of this course is to provide a framework for interpreting public discourse on energy...

PUBPOL 312

PUBPOL 312.001: Env Politics&Policy

Barry Rabe

This course is an advanced offering on environmental politics and the environmental policy-making...

PUBPOL 626

PUBPOL 626.001: 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 466

PUBPOL 466.001: 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 716

PUBPOL 716.001: Introduction to Chinese Policy

Ann Chih Lin

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 587

PUBPOL 587.102: Public Management

Barry Rabe

All sections of public management emphasize common themes such as performance management, strategic planning, and inter-institutional network...

PUBPOL 750

PUBPOL 750.506: Topics: Federal Budget Process

Betsey Stevenson

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PUBPOL 750

PUBPOL 750.507: Topics: Storytelling in Policy Writing: People & Numbers

Alex Ralph

This new half-semester course takes its inspiration from Ta-Nehisi Coates’ “The Case for Reparations.” In his essay, Coates employs a mix of writing modes—the statistical and the anecdotal, as well as the journalistic and even the biblical—in...

PUBPOL 587

PUBPOL 587.201: Public Management: Survey Design for Organizations

Kaitlin Raimi

Part of successful management is knowing how employees, managers, citizens, and other stakeholders think and feel about organizations in general, about particular policies, and about new initiatives and...

PUBPOL 587

PUBPOL 587.203: Public Management: Working in Diverse Organizations

Kaitlin Raimi

The workforce of the 21st century is increasingly diverse. Productive managers cannot afford to ignore this diversity, and can benefit greatly from...

PUBPOL 475

PUBPOL 475.202: Topics: Lobbying Government Officials

Richard Hall

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PUBPOL 413

PUBPOL 413.001: Professional Development

The goal of this course is to enhance the students' ability to bring about the individual and organizational changes they want to...

PUBPOL 735

PUBPOL 735.001: Professional Development

Researchers who study successful people agree on the following: Your IQ and cognitive intelligence are at best moderate predictors of your success in...