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December 9, 2022
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This course includes:
Unlimited Duration
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Description
This course is an introduction to real-world dynamics of public policy controversies.
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 Curriculum
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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
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