2008

The purpose of this course is to provide a forum for learning about and discussing (primarily) micro-economic applications. It is intended for those students who have completed PubPol 571 or an...

Basic economic principles and methods are used to identify the circumstances in which government intervention can improve industrial efficiency, and to investigate successful and unsuccessful regulatory...

This course aims to teach students how to use and conduct benefit-cost analysis. To do this, students must possess the ability to model economic behavior in the real...

This course teaches students the basic tools of macroeconomics and how to apply them to real world economic...

This course provides an overview of international financial economics, developing analytic tools and concepts that can be used to analyze world economic policy...

This course covers descriptive statistics, probability theory, probability distributions (normal, binomial, Poisson, exponential), sampling distributions, confidence intervals, and hypothesis...

This course will provide students with a practical hands-on instruction in the analysis of survey data using the statistical package Stata. Students will learn how to investigate a variety of public policy issues using data from the...

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...

This course develops students' abilities to use microeconomic analysis to further our understanding of public...

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

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...

Meet-together with Law 844. This seminar will focus on substantive law as to ensuring students achieve equal educational opportunity and adequate...

This section of public management explores the conceptual basis of strategic management in the public and nonprofit...

Instructor: Martin Palous, Ambassador, Permanent Representative of the Czech Republic to the United Nations in New York Bio:...

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

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

This course provides an overview of the economics of health and medical...

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...

This course will examine the sometimes supportive, sometimes antagonistic relationship between religion and the...

A bi-weekly one-credit seminar that introduces students to applied policy research. For students in the Ford School Joint Ph.D....

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...

The aim of this course is to introduce students to topical issues in science and technology policy. The course will meet weekly for a formal...

Programs to serve the poor have evolved sporadically in the...

This course analyzes the role and effect of government fiscal policy on the...

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

This is a year-long course devoted to developing an internet-based course to promote quantitative social science in South...

This course examines the origins, development, and impact of selected civil rights policies concerning race. Major topics include employment, education, voting, and...