11.003
Methods of Policy Analysis
Provides students with an introduction to public policy analysis. Examines various approaches to policy analysis by considering the concepts, tools, and methods used in economics, political science, and other disciplines. Students apply and critique these approaches through case studies of current public policy problems.
Spring 2016
Topics
- Course Description, Goals, and Requirements
- Policy and Visions of Governance
- Case: Needles and Safe Injection Sites
- Theories of Public Policy: How Choices Are Made
- Values and Public Policy
- Policy Analysis – Case: Bees, Mites, and Pesticides
- Policy Analysis – Bees (cont.)
- Cost of Policy
- Defense Policy
- Cost Benefit Analysis
- Cost Benefit (cont.)
- Cost-Effectiveness and Regression Analysis – Appalachia Case Study
- Cost-Effectiveness and Regression Analysis – Poverty in America (cont.)
- Welfare – Focus Groups
- Social Insurance
- Case: Land Readjustment Case; International Policy
- Final Assignment Work Day
- Project Presentations
- Wrap Up
Readings
- [CS] = Simon, Christopher. Public Policy: Preferences and Outcomes . 2nd ed. Routledge, 2009. ISBN: 9780205744824.
- Patton, Carl, David Sawicki, et al. Basic Methods of Policy Analysis and Planning . Routledge, 2015. ISBN: 9780137495092.
- Stanley, Harold W., and Richard G. Niemi. “Economic Policy.” In Vital Statistics on American Politics 2015–2016 . CQ Press, 2015. ISBN: 9781483380315.
- [CS] Chapter 1.
- SES #: 4 · TOPICS: Theories of Public Policy: How Choices Are Made · READINGS: [CS] Chapter 2.
- [CS] Chapter 3.
- [CS] Chapter 17.
- 10 · Cost Benefit Analysis · Stiglitz, Joseph E., and Jay K. Rosengard. Chapters 10–11 in Economics of the Public Sector . W. W. Norton & Company, 4th edition, 2015. ISBN: 9780393925227.
- ———. Chapter 12 in Economics of the Public Sector . W. W. Norton & Company, 4th edition, 2015. ISBN: 9780393925227.
- Stanley, Harold W., and Richard G. Niemi. “Foreign and Military Policy.” In Vital Statistics on American Politics 2015–2016 . CQ Press, 2015, pp. 323–46. ISBN: 9781483380315.
- Glasmeier, Amy. “American Poverty Policy from the 1930s to 2004.” In An Atlas of Poverty in America: One Nation, Pulling Apart 1960–2003 . Routledge, 2005. ISBN: 9780415953351.
- ———. “Appalachia: A Land Apart in a Wealthy Nation.” In An Atlas of Poverty in America: One Nation, Pulling Apart 1960–2003 . Routledge, 2005. ISBN: 9780415953351.
- Stanley, Harold W., and Richard G. Niemi. “Social Policy.” In Vital Statistics on American Politics 2015–2016 . CQ Press, 2015, pp. 347–82. ISBN: 9781483380315.
- Gamm, Gerald. Chapters 1–3 in Urban Exodus: Why the Jews Left Boston and the Catholics Stayed . Harvard University Press, 2001. ISBN: 9780674005587.
Prerequisites & course information
Same subject as 17.303[J] Prereq: 11.002[J] ; Coreq: 14.01 Acad Year 2027-2028: Not offered Acad Year 2028-2029: U (Fall) 3-0-9 units. HASS-S
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
- MIT OpenCourseWare ↗Spring 2016
- MIT OCW calendar ↗
- MIT OCW readings ↗
- MIT OCW syllabus ↗
- Historical MIT OpenCourseWare offering. Named reading entries and schedule topics are automatically extracted from the linked source pages.