PSCI 20300 - The Politics of Public Policy

Course Credit: 1
THE POLITICS OF PUBLIC POLICY: The Politics of Public Policy Analyzes the nature of the policy-making process with an emphasis on the political interactions among the various individual and institutional actors involved at all levels in the U.S. federal system. It examines both the processes through which public policies evolve over time and the various social, economic, and political factors that influence the content of public policy. Both case studies of policy making and general models of the determinants of public policies are discussed. [HSS]