Winter

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...

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...

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...

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

This course examines a number of popular approaches to education reform, using an economic lens to understand the impetus and potential impact of...

This course will focus on public health in the developing world from the perspective of the social sciences, drawing on economics, demography, political science and...

This course surveys what we do and don't know about economic growth and poverty alleviation in developing countries. We begin by discussing alternative perspectives on the goals of...

This course will consider the capacity of North American political institutions to shape effective environmental protection policies, devoting primary emphasis to the United States but also examining Canada and...

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...

This course will examine the higher education sector from several different angles, but with an emphasis placed on the economic...

This course will investigate the various means, both direct and indirect, through which the mass media and public opinion can influence the foreign policy making...

Course will examine the origins of the concept of CSR its meaning and motivations, and the shareholder-stakeholder controversy, where the latter include employees, communities (now defined globally) and, most recently, the global...

This course covers the policy issues involved in the areas of defense, deterrence, and arms control in the contemporary...

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,...

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...

This course introduces key policy issues in international macroeconomics and finance. We will develop analytic tools that are the building blocks for understanding global economic policy...

The course will focus on urban policy and economic development issues in the Detroit metropolitan...