PBPL 5: Introduction to Public Policy
with Professor Ronald Shaiko (10 Hour)
This course is designed as the gateway offering for students beginning to pursue a minor in public policy through the Rockefeller Center. The term will be divided into four main components:
- The Nature of Public Policy: What is Public Policy, Who Makes It, and Why Study It?
- Making Public Policy: The Process, Structure, and Context of Policymaking
- The Policy Players: Institutional and Non-Institutional Actors
- The Policy Game: Rules, Strategies, Culture, and Resources
In the concluding section of the course, we will be pursuing specific policy domains—environmental policy, education policy, health care policy, welfare policy, immigration policy, and defense policy.
Dist: SOC; WCult: W.