printer friendly pageIPS 206B: Organizations (PUBLPOL 304B)
Policy reform and organizational resistance. Organizations include government and other bureaucracies such as not-for-profit schools, universities, hospitals, international organizations, political parties, and agencies. Hubris and policy making, including pathologies of decision making and planning, abuse of intelligence, biased information, overselling to publics, lack of knowledge about context, and unintended consequences.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4
Instructors:
Eden, L. (PI)
;
Stedman, S. (PI)
IPS 207: Governance, Corruption, and Development
The role of governance in the growth and development experience across countries emphasizing the economies of corruption. The concept and measurement of governance. Theory and evidence on the impact of corruption on growth and development outcomes, including investment, international trade and financial flows, human capital accumulation, poverty and income inequality. The cultural, economic, and political determinants of corruption and policy implications for improving governance. Prerequisite:
ECON 50.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
Instructors:
Aturupane, C. (PI)
IPS 207A: Judgment and Decision Making (PUBLPOL 305A)
(Same as
LAW 333.) Theories and research on heuristics and biases in human inference, judgment, and decision making. Experimental and theoretical work in prospect theory emphasizing loss and risk aversion. Challenges that psychology offers to the rationalist expected utility model; attempts to meet this challenge through integration with modern behavioral economics. Decision making biases and phenomena of special relevance to public policy such as group polarization, group think, and collective action.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4
Instructors:
Brest, P. (PI)
IPS 207B: Public Policy and Social Psychology: Implications and Applications (PSYCH 216, PUBLPOL 305B)
Theories, insights, and concerns of social psychology relevant to how people perceive issues, events, and each other, and links between beliefs and individual and collective behavior. Topics include: situationist and subjectivist traditions of applied and theoretical social psychology; social comparison, dissonance, and attribution theories; social identity, stereotyping, racism, and sources of intergroup conflict and misunderstanding; challenges to universality assumptions regarding human motivation, emotion, and perception of self and others; the problem of producing individual and collective changes in norms and behavior.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4
Instructors:
Ross, L. (PI)
IPS 208: Justice (ETHICSOC 171, PHIL 171, PHIL 271, POLISCI 136S, POLISCI 336S, PUBLPOL 103C, PUBLPOL 307)
Focus is on the ideal of a just society, and the place of liberty and equality in it, in light of contemporary theories of justice and political controversies. Topics include protecting religious liberty, financing schools and elections, regulating markets, assuring access to health care, and providing affirmative action and group rights. Issues of global justice including human rights and global inequality.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4-5
Instructors:
Cohen, J. (PI)
IPS 209: Practicum (PUBLPOL 309)
Applied policy exercises in various fields. Multidisciplinary student teams apply skills to a contemporary problem in a major policy exercise with a public sector client such as a government agency. Problem analysis, interaction with the client and experts, and presentations. Emphasis is on effective written and oral communication to lay audiences of recommendations based on policy analysis.
Terms: Aut, Win
| Units: 1-10
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors:
Nation, J. (PI)
IPS 210: The Politics of International Humanitarian Action
The relationship between humanitarianism and politics in international responses to civil conflicts and forced displacement. Focus is on policy dilemmas and choices, and the consequences of action or inaction. Case studies include northern Iraq (Kurdistan), Bosnia, Rwanda, Kosovo, and Darfur.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-5
Instructors:
Morris, E. (PI)
IPS 211: The Transition from War to Peace: Peacebuilding Strategies
How to find sustainable solutions to intractable internal conflicts that lead to peace settlements. How institutions such as the UN, regional organizations, and international financial agencies attempt to support a peace process. Case studies include Bosnia, East Timor, Kosovo, Burundi, Liberia, and Afghanistan.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-5
Instructors:
Morris, E. (PI)
IPS 221: International Organizations and Institutions
How do international organizations and institutions (IOs and IIs) influence state practices, if at all? Do states have a firm grasp in controlling international organizations or have these IOs spun out of control? IOs and IIs raise exciting questions for both scholars and practitioners alike. This course will briefly review the central theoretical perspectives on IOs and also the history of the major international organizations. Emphasis will be placed on specific conceptual or policy-motivated puzzles posed by international organizations, generally focusing on one IO or II (including the UN, WTO, IMF, World Bank, ECJ and others) per puzzle.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-5
Instructors:
Gould, E. (PI)
IPS 221A: Globalization and Its Discontents: An Introduction to International Political Economy
What is globalization? Its impacts on different countries and population including those that multilateral organizations such as the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, and World Trade Organization have on the economic policies of member states and the functioning of the global economy. Topics include: political economy of trade; exchange rate policy; the liberalization of trade and finance; the global move to openness; development, debt and aid; and the role of international organizations.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
Instructors:
Gould, E. (PI)
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