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In this course we examine the theory of the consumer and the theory of the firm under a variety of market structures. Throughout the course we study the concepts of opportunity cost, marginal analysis, economic incentives, efficiency, and market power; and apply them to public policy issues.
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The objective of macroeconomics is to explain the determination of aggregate income, employment, interest rates, the price level, and the international balance of payments and what causes these major economic variables to change over the short run. This course develops an aggregate demand and aggregate supply model in the context of an open economy (or one with international trade and capital movements) for this purpose. The stabilization roles of monetary and fiscal policy are examined using this model. THIS IS A SELECTIVE COURSE FOR INTERNATIONAL POLICY & DEVELOPMENT STUDENTS AND A PREREQUISITE FOR PPOL 686, INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS. Professor Rohaly.
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This course serves as a continuation of Introduction to Microtheory. This course explores the impact of a variety of factors that may result in market failures, including public goods, externalities, information asymmetries and uncertainty. A rationale for government policies as a corrective device for market failures is then developed. This framework is then used to discuss a variety of government transfer programs and their financing, with particular emphasis on the incentive effects of such programs and policies. An introduction to cost/benefit analysis is incorporated as a mechanism for evaluating various programs. PREREQUISITE: PPOL 501, INTRODUCTION TO MICROTHEORY.
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This course introduces students to research methods and to descriptive and inferential statistics that are often used in public policy research. The course aims to provide students with a solid foundation for analyzing data, conveying analyses in convincing and appropriate ways, and developing further statistical skills. Thus, the emphasis is on understanding research questions, describing data, and developing a core understanding of the scientific method in social science research. Topics covered include: causality, a brief introduction to experimental and nonexperimental research designs, measures of central tendency and dispersion, probability and probability distributions, hypothesis testing and confidence intervals, ANOVA, Chi-Square, correlation, simple regression, and a brief introduction to multiple regression. Students use SAS (a statistical software application) to develop their data analysis skills.
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This course builds on the material covered in Quantitative Methods I to further develop an understanding of the motivations for and applications of statistical techniques. Students learn the assumptions underlying ordinary least squares (OLS) regression models, and the consequences of violating those assumptions. By the end of the semester students should be able to: (1) conceptually understand the econometric methods covered in the course and know how they can be applied to analyze a variety of public policy issues; (2) interpret the results of multivariate linear regressions and think critically about the potential problems that arise when trying to draw conclusions from such results; (3) use a statistical package (SAS) to conduct basic statistical analyses. PREREQUISITE -- QUANTITATIVE METHODS I OR EQUIVALENT
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This course is an introduction to advanced, but commonly used, methods of statistical analysis. The emphasis (as in Quantitative Methods I and II) is on applied learning; formal proofs and mathematical rigor are presented but not the principal focus of the course. Instruction will concentrate on how to determine the appropriate econometric approach in addressing various types of policy questions. Topics to be covered will include: Maximum Likelihood Estimation; Limited Dependent Variables (Linear Probability, Logit & Probit Models); Truncated/Censored Dependent Variables (Tobit Models); Panel data; Instrumental Variable methods; and Time-Series analysis.
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The course will begin with a general discussion of fiscal adjustment in theory and practice. Various categories or aspects of fiscal adjustment will then be reviewed. The categories include: tax policy, tax administration, public expenditure policy, public expenditure administration, deficit and debt, fiscal federalism, and corruption. (Prerequisite: PPOL 503, Public Finance, or its equivalent). (Also course in the Environmental & Regulatory Policy track)
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This seminar engages students in a case-based examination of foreign and domestic policy-making in the United States. The purpose is to explore the nature of the policy process across different kinds of issues--including national security policies, domestic policies, and overlapping international/domestic policies (like global warming). The professors will draw on their own experience (along with the experience of occasional guests) to relate theories of policy-making to the real policy and political world.
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This course analyzes the politics, institutions, norms, and actors involved in the agenda-setting, legitimation, and decision-making of public policy in the US. Students learn how to use analytical frameworks that explain how the policymaking process works, relates to the substance of policy, and applies to real world issues. Students also investigate how the policy making process varies across different issue areas. As one of several assignments, students write a policy memo suitable for submission to a member of Congress or other key political actor.
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This course provides a cross-national perspective on the institutions and processes of public policy-making. The first section of the course examines a series of theoretical perspectives for analyzing constraints on and opportunities for policymaking, including political culture, globalization, and feedbacks from past policy choices. The central section of the course focuses on political institutions as venues and vehicles for policymaking. The final section of the course looks at case studies of specific policy sectors, such as pensions, health care, and the environment. Throughout the course, there will be a balance between general and theoretical materials and a more intensive examination of a small number of countries.
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This course examines economic growth, human development and social policies, with an emphasis on rising countries. There is no prerequisite to enroll in the class. The course is intended for students with an interest in development who expect to work in public organizations or NGOs such as Oxfam, CARE, USAID, Inter-American Development Bank, the World Bank, etc. The course is aimed at giving students an overview of current development debates by presenting different analytical approaches to analyze the empirical evidence on welfare in developing countries. The course will be part lecture and part class discussion. Students are expected to actively participate and will be asked questions in class on the readings.
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This course examines the causes of and possible remedies to America's crime problem. The class will consider classic explanations of crime and criminal behavior drawn from economics and sociology, and use these theoretical explanations as a framework for evaluating contemporary research in law and policy. A main focus of the course will be to consider whether crime policy is responsive to empirical evidence. Have changes in crime control strategies over the last 25 years - such as the war on drugs, expansion of corrections, and a growing interest in rehabilitation - occurred because of, or in spite of, related research on victimization, policing, incarceration, sentencing, capital punishment, substance abuse, guns, criminal careers and inequality?
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Credits: 3
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This seminar course examines the nature and extent of poverty in the U.S., and looks at public policies aimed at creating a social safety net as protection against the effects of poverty. Anti-poverty policies - social insurance, income maintenance and other programs- are discussed with an emphasis on the behavioral impacts of the policies and their ultimate effectiveness in reducing poverty. Education and labor market policies for the disadvantaged are considered as well.
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In this course students explore the role that public policy has in child development and well-being. The primary focus is on the formative pre-school years. Specific topics include measuring child development, compensatory education (Head Start), family structure and child well-being, child support, family support services and child care. The way in which contrasting political and social ideologies about childrenâs issues influence public policy is examined. Students will discuss both the opportunities and limitations of public policy in affecting the status of children.
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This course examines the policy and political issues surrounding âentitlementâ programs. The concept behind the course is that different entitlement programs â like Medicare, Medicaid, welfare and social security â raise a common set of policy and political issues. These issues include income redistribution, intergenerational equity, means-testing vs. universality, compulsory participation vs. individual choice, and individual vs. social responsibility.
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Surveys are the most commonly used data collection tool in the social sciences, providing for efficient collection of data over broad populations, amenable to administration in person, by telephone, and over the Internet. The course teaches state of the art methods for designing, conducting, and interpreting the results of surveys. The emphasis is on the development of practical skills that will be valuable additions to the GPPI studentâs analytic toolkit. The course integrates perspectives from sociology, economics and cognitive psychology and methodologies commonly applied within policy evaluation, social science and public opinion research settings. Topics include questionnaire development and testing, judging the quality of a survey, the use and misuse of survey methods, sources of bias/error in survey design and analysis, techniques for dealing with limitations in surveys, data collection techniques, coding and data processing, and ethical issues in survey research. For some topics, guest speakers from government and private research and polling firms will provide practical insights.
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This course focuses on human health risk assessment and covers the following set of interrelated steps that are used in assessing environmental risks: hazard identification, dose-response, exposure assessment, and risk characterization. Current key topics in the evolution of risk assessment are covered, such as shifting emphasis from risk identification to risk characterization, from cancer effects to an inclusive focus on other diseases and deficits, and from dose-response to a greater emphasis on mechanisms and modes of action at the cellular and genetic level. The course also features discussions of cascading conservatism, bias towards synthetic over natural risks, and the difficulties of conducting epidemiological studies. The course will emphasize examples from the U.S. EPA, but some attention will also be paid to how other government agencies assess risks. (Also a course in the Environmental & Regulatory Policy track)
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Credits: 3
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Co-taught by a public policy scholar and child advocacy attorney, this course combines perspectives of social science research, state and federal law, other public policies, politics, and advocacy initiatives to explore cutting-edge issues related to how the U.S. legal system both affects and intervenes in the lives of American children and their families. Beginning with an overview of the evolution of child protection law and childrenâs rights, topics include conflicts between parents, children and the State, changes and controversies in child custody/adoption law, abused and neglected children in the foster care system, poverty (e.g., PRWORA), education, disabilities, health and mental health, child victim/witnesses in court, and the juvenile justice system. Through up-to-date case studies and readings, class discussion and writing assignments students will consider both the barriers to and the policy and legal/judicial opportunities for enhancing the safety, permanency, and well being of Americaâs most vulnerable children.
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The nonprofit sector â also referred to as the nongovernmental (NGO) sector, the third sector or civil society â plays a unique and historical role in our society and increasingly globally. Indeed, a large percentage of GPPI graduates have recognized this and go on to work for a diverse array of nonprofit organizations upon graduation. Why nonprofits? This course will study the unique elements that distinguish the nonprofit sector from the private and public sectors and, yet, how boundaries between the three sectors have been blurred â from the provision of services to regulation. Using the case study method and focusing on nonprofits at the local, national and international levels, students will study the factors that allow nonprofit organizations to have the greatest impact on their issues, including the ability to: leverage networks, advocate causes, work with markets, adapt to changing circumstances and exercise effective leadership AND management.
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The purpose of this course is to provide a general introduction to governance and management in non-profit organizations. Topics covered in the course are organizational mission, governance, management and control, staffing, financing, resource development, strategic planning, board development and responsibilities and regulatory issues as they apply to managing various types of non-profit organizations.
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The purpose of this course is to study the role, structure, and functions of the nonprofit sector in various nations. The course will focus on international comparative studies as well as individual country studies and the role of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) operating internationally. Areas and regions studied in the course will include the industrialized nations (including the U.S. and Japan); Russia and the eastern European countries; the Middle East, Asia, and Latin America. Issues covered in the course will include prevalent theories of nonprofit sector formation; the nonprofit sector?s role in the creation and maintenance of civil societies and citizen participation; the size, scope, and dimensions of the nonprofit sector across nations; the impact of national histories and culture upon the structure and role of nonprofit sectors; and the relationship of this sector to government and business in various nations. A knowledge of the history, size and scope of the U.S. nonprofit sector is suggested. The course will be run as a seminar.
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This course examines many of the major public policy issues that nonprofit leaders are now concerned with, including: the impact on nonprofits of devolution; the implications of possible tax reform for charitable giving; attempts to restrict the advocacy and lobbying activities of nonprofits; increased government reliance on faith-based service providers; more frequent challenges to the tax-exempt status of nonprofits; new accountability standards for nonprofits; the role of nonprofits in engaging citizens in community; and the role of foundations in society. (Prerequisite: PPOL 530, The Nonprofit Sector.)
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Modern campaigns are expensive, consuming and brutal public spectacles which determine who sets the course and the policy for our nation. But the public rarely gets to see what actually goes on behind the scenes. This class focuses on how campaigns are put together from the ground upâfrom the time a candidate decides to run, through research, polling, message development and delivery to Get Out the Vote. Real world examples help to shed light on this public, but often misunderstood process.
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