17.303
Methods of Policy Analysis
See description under subject 11.003[J] .
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 11.003[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.