This course is an introduction to real-world dynamics of public policy controversies.
FREE
This course includes
Hours of videos
527 years, 8 months
Units & Quizzes
19
Unlimited Lifetime access
Access on mobile app
Certificate of Completion
Topics to be considered include national, state, and local policy disputes, such as smoking, hazardous waste, abortion, gun control, and education. Using a case study approach, students study whether and how those disputes get resolved. Students conduct debates and simulations in addition to writing a series of short essays
Course Currilcum
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- Public vs. Private Problems Unlimited
- Policy Goals: Equity, Efficiency (Welfare) Unlimited
- Policy Goals: Security, Liberty (Homeland Security) Unlimited
- Globalization Unlimited
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- Ideas and Power in the Policy Process Unlimited
- Defining Problems: Symbols, Numbers and Causes Unlimited
- Attaching Solutions to Problems: Policy Entrepreneurs & Tipping Points Unlimited
- Defining Problems: Interests, Experts, and the Media (Health Care) Unlimited
- Devising Solutions: Rules, Facts, Rights, Power, Inducements Unlimited
- Social Security Unlimited
- Resolving Disputes in Congress (Taxes) Unlimited
- Resolving Disputes in Agencies (Endangered Species) Unlimited
- Resolving Disputes in Agencies (cont.) Unlimited
- Resolving Disputes in Courts (School Desegregation) Unlimited
- Resolving Local Disputes (Hazardous Waste) Unlimited
