This course would explore related and sometimes competing legal and policy frameworks for the development and dissemination of ideas and expression in the Information...
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...
This course examines the policy issues of international trade, including trade in both goods and services and also international flows of direct investment and...
The course will examine the past, present, and future of diplomatic interactions between the United States and the other nations of the Indo-Pacific region, starting with the 1951 signing of the Treaty of San Francisco that ended the state of war...
Is Congress too partisan? Can Congress fulfill its legislative and oversight functions? Do the executive and judicial branches effectively control public policy...
This course provides an introduction to public policy design and analysis using "systematic thinking" from the social sciences and humanities, with the application of scientific methods and knowledge more...
(2 Credits for class portion) -- This is a year-long course devoted to developing an internet-based course to promote quantitative social science in South...
The first half of this course will introduce the principles of finance. We will explore how stocks and bonds are valued, the measurement and management of financial risk, and the lessons and limitations of finance...
This is the first of two separate half-term seminars, which may be taken together or separately. Recent topics have included the determinants of the...
The goal of this course is to provide students with an opportunity to get their hands dirty with actual policy work, both as a way to utilize some of the skills they have learned in their other courses as well as to help them learn about many of...
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...
This is the first of two separate half-term seminars, which may be taken together or separately. Recent topics have included the determinants of the...
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...
This course is designed to introduce the students to what public managers do and to help provide the students with perspectives and opportunities for practice that will help them become effective public...
The central issues addressed by this course are whether and how one ought to try to establish the extent to which public programs are achieving their goals. Are the goals being attained? If not, why...
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,...
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...
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...
This course would explore related and sometimes competing legal and policy frameworks for the development and dissemination of ideas and expression in the Information...
(2 Credits for class portion) -- This is a year-long course devoted to developing an internet-based course to promote quantitative social science in South...