printer friendly pagePUBLPOL 54SI: Current Issues in International Policy Making
Major current issues and their impact on international public policy through guest lectures and discussions. Topics include: international health, international environmental policy, foreign policy implications of the November elections, regulation of international markets, African education and development, UN intervention. U.S.-China relations, U.S.-Iran relations, and the Iraq war.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 1-2
Instructors:
Stedman, S. (PI)
PUBLPOL 101: Politics and Public Policy (POLISCI 123)
How policies come to be formed. How interests compete within public institutions to turn ideas into policies. Examples of this process from contemporary policy areas, including tax, social welfare, and environmental policy; results evaluated using equity and efficiency criteria. Prerequisite:
POLISCI 2.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: WAY-SI, GER:DB-SocSci
Instructors:
Durbin, B. (PI)
PUBLPOL 102: Organizations and Public Policy
Analysis of organizational processes emphasizing organizations that operate in a non-market environment. Prerequisite:
ECON 1A.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
Instructors:
Bendor, J. (PI)
PUBLPOL 103A: Introduction to Political Philosophy (ETHICSOC 30, PHIL 30, POLISCI 3)
State authority, justice, liberty, and equality through major works in political philosophy. Topics include human nature and citizenship, the obligation to obey the law, democracy and economic inequality, equality of opportunity and affirmative action, religion, and politics.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-EthicReas
Instructors:
Hussain, N. (PI)
PUBLPOL 103B: Ethics and Public Policy (MS&E 197, STS 110)
Ethical issues in science- and technology-related public policy conflicts. Focus is on complex, value-laden policy disputes. Topics: the nature of ethics and morality; rationales for liberty, justice, and human rights; and the use and abuse of these concepts in policy disputes. Case studies from biomedicine, environmental affairs, technical professions, communications, and international relations.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-EthicReas, WAY-ER
Instructors:
McGinn, R. (PI)
PUBLPOL 104: Economic Policy Analysis (ECON 150)
The relationship between microeconomic analysis and public policy making. How economic policy analysis is done and why political leaders regard it as useful but not definitive in making policy decisions. Economic rationales for policy interventions, methods of policy evaluation and the role of benefit-cost analysis, economic models of politics and their application to policy making, and the relationship of income distribution to policy choice. Theoretical foundations of policy making and analysis, and applications to program adoption and implementation. Prerequisite:
ECON 50.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: WAY-AQR
Instructors:
Kessler, D. (PI)
PUBLPOL 106: Economics of Legal Rules and Institutions (ECON 154)
Design and consequences of laws, given alternative policy objectives. Welfarist approach to legal policy; deontological perspectives including Kant, Locke, Mill, and Rawls. Economic efficiency and agent rationality, law as mitigation of market and cognitive failures, effects of law on expectations and incentives, balancing costs of type I and type II legal errors. Empirical studies of law's effects. Applications: property, tort, contract, antitrust, discrimination, crime, legal procedure. Examples chiefly from U.S. law, but analytical tools of general applicability. Prerequisite:
ECON 50.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: WAY-SI
PUBLPOL 121: Policy and Climate Change
Science and economics, including recent findings. History and evolution of local, state, regional, national, and international policy. California's recent landmark climate change bill. Future policy prospects, emphasizing national and international levels.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
Instructors:
Nation, J. (PI)
PUBLPOL 125: Law and Public Policy
How lawyers argue and judges decide cases versus other forms of rhetoric and decision making. Legal reasoning and dispute resolution within Anglo-American common law and in comparative perspective across diverse societies. The relationship between law and public policy on current issues related to culture, technology, race, education, sexuality, abortion, gun control, civil liberties, national security and the environment. Sources include judicial opinions, interdisciplinary legal scholarship, ethnography, literature, and film.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
Instructors:
Greenberg, J. (PI)
PUBLPOL 130: Path Dependence in Private Action and Public Policy: Decision Making in the Shadow of History (ECON 151)
The historically contingent development of economic, social, and political behaviors at micro and macro levels. History's role in individual and organizational decision making. When can extraneous events have persisting effects upon public institutions, private organizations, and government agencies? Science and technology policy making; precedent-based judicial and administrative proceedings; and institutional reforms and regulatory initiatives illustrate positive feedback dynamics; self-organization and emergent properties in complex systems; conditions of lock-in to and escapes from sub-optimal equilibria in economic and social arrangements. Recommended:
ECON 51.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-5
Instructors:
David, P. (PI)
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