This course offers a focused analysis of U.S. foreign policy in Africa, unpacking the continent's political, economic, and security complexities and their intersection with American strategic...
The decision-making process for national security is a complex subject that involves the intersection of several factors to include the role of the President, the National Security Council,...
This course will provide an overview of recent Japanese economic history and the current state of the Japanese economy. We will consider what economic policymakers around the world can learn from...
Among advanced capitalist economies, the United States is a case of remarkable inequality - between individuals, between groups of people, and between places. This course examines the relationship between race, place, and...
Experimentation is increasingly being used as a tool to inform policy decision-making in a wide range of areas, including education, health, energy, workplace design, consumer finance, voting, taxation, non-profits, charitable fundraising, among...
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...
The management of financial resources to achieve public goals pervades every area of public policy, but budgeting and financial management is an area usually left to “experts” who often seem to speak their own language. In today’s...
The management of financial resources to achieve public goals pervades every area of public policy, but budgeting and financial management is an area usually left to “experts” who often seem to speak their own language. In today’s...
This course developed from an initiative of the International Policy Students Association (IPSA) at the Ford School of Public Policy. It will be in two...
The main goals of this course are (1) to help you deepen your appreciation of the importance of public management in our democratic scheme of governance; (2) to enhance your ability to think analytically about problems of public management; and...
This course 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...
Negotiation Basics for Public Policy will provide students with an understanding of the theory and processes of negotiation as practiced in a variety of...
This course is designed to familiarize students with core skills in data access, manipulation, analysis, and presentation using Excel (and Excel-like...
We are accustomed to thinking of public policy as a remedy for social ills. We notice a problem---undereducated youth, roads in disrepair, or bureaucratic hurdles to small business---and we design and implement policy to remedy the...
This course is an introduction to programming in the R statistical language. R is a flexible, open-source statistics platform which has gained broad adoption in a variety of...
