Objectives
- Students will become familiar with competing theories, models, and analytical frameworks for understanding policymaking, particularly in the U.S. context.
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Grades
Course requirements include three written policy exercises, two letters to policymakers, active class participation, and a final exam. Each policy exercise will count for 20 percent of the grade, and the final exam will count for 40 percent.
Required Textbooks
- Deborah Stone, Policy Paradox and Political Reason (NY: W.W. Norton & Co.) 2002.
- John Kingdon, Agendas, Alternatives, and Public Policies, 2nd edition (NY: HarperCollins) 1995.
- Cindy Skrzycki, The Regulators (Rowman and Littlefield, Inc) 2003.
