Course schedule for the Public Policy Certificate Program, Northwestern University School of Professional Studies - Northwestern School of Professional Studies

Course Schedule

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MPPA 407-0 : Scope and Theory of Public Policy

Description

This course is an introduction to the public policy process in the United States. It focuses on developing an understanding of what "political" and "public policy" mean and how public policy is made. The course considers agenda setting, decision making theory and methods of analyzing policy outcomes. Course materials will provide students with the analytical framework to explore why some problems reach the public agenda, why some solutions are adopted and others rejected, and why some policies appear to succeed while others appear to fail. It will examine policy making primarily at the national level but will also look at examples at the state and local level.