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PUBPOL 456

PUBPOL 456: Local Government, Opportunity for Activism

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 717

PUBPOL 717: Humanising History

Yazier Henry
How do individuals, communities and nations remember and represent the past? How is the relationship between history, memory and forgetting displaced through the very forms of socio-cultural production that inscribe...
PUBPOL 744

PUBPOL 744: Economics of the Public Sector

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 720/SI 621

PUBPOL 720/SI 621: Ethics, Values & Information Dilemmas

The information revolution and the expanding use of information technology within all organizations, profit and non-profit, public and private, has created an environment in which access to massive quantities of information, at startling speeds,...
PUBPOL 555

PUBPOL 555: Microeconomics A

This course begins a two-term sequence designed to provide students with an understanding of the economic implications of public policies and with analytic tools useful in system design and policy...
PUBPOL 559

PUBPOL 559: Accelerated Microeconomics

This calculus-based course provides a fast-paced overview of the microeconomic models underlying the actions of consumers and households, firms, regulators, and other public...
PUBPOL 569

PUBPOL 569: Applied Regression Analysis

This course focuses on what a practitioner needs to know about multiple regression analysis, a key tool for policy analysis. It is an introduction to econometrics that is less mathematical and theoretical than PUBPOL...
PUBPOL 580

PUBPOL 580: Values, Ethics, and Public Policy

Yazier Henry
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 587

PUBPOL 587: Public Management

David Thacher
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...
PUBPOL 636

PUBPOL 636: Program Evaluation

Elisabeth Gerber
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...