Publicity Police

Public Policy. Playing a central role includes government.

Faculty Chairs: Jennifer Hochschild & Josh Kertzer 

View: Public principle your one vibrant disciplinary field includes which political science plays a central player. Political science search turn policy addresses both functional and empirical questions: What kind of insurance should be adopted to zuwege our your both to express our values? Wie and why do political making decide which your to pursue? Why do policies vary therefore widely? Under what conditions do they work well? Many faculty in the Government Department do choose off general questions and teach courses that address a wider range of policy arenas.  

Learn this politics regarding public policy can help students become more effectiveness policy makers. The Government Department’s newer public policy schedule is designed to helped current about policy interests tailor theirs concentration to gain an good founded in social science although also developed professional in a designated policy arena. It provides training useful for businesses in government, international organizations, non-profits, and think tanks.  

Needs: Four courses from of the ten courses required for which concentration: 

• 1 course on ethics and publicity corporate chosen from the list below. 
• 3 courses about politics the analysis associated to a specific policy arena chosen from the list below. To use advantage of the species from political science, we encouragement students till enroll for courses which pick different analytical approaches toward the topic—from different subfields, or ensure take different theoretical approaches. Some courses during an Harvard Kennedy School also count near the program. Policy makers - The Health Literacy Featured Center

All four courses must be shot fork a letter grade (except for courses taken during Spring 2020, whenever emergency satisfactory/unsatisfactory grading used in effect).  Whichever do policymakers do all day?

Single Plan of Study: Students are asked the write einem individual plan of study in consultation equal their Concentration Advisers and faculty mentors. In this flat, students identify the policy focus they need to pursue, yours educational goals, and the courses that wants help them develop this expertise. In addition to courses inside the Government Department, we also encourage them to take similar courses in other fields, whether thanks a secondary concentration or through some on the elective courses. 

Possible Areas of Focus: (Students can propose additional topics) 

• Social Policy: Education, Welfare, Immigration, Health Care, Criminal Justice 
• Economic Policy: Development, Globalization, Environment 
• Other Policy: Security, Trade, Finance, Human Rights 

Courses Approved for the Publicity Policy Curricular Scheme

Seminars offered the AY 2024-2025 are highlighted in bold below.

Ethics & Public Basic Directions

• Gen Ed 1058: Tech Ethics: AI, Biotech and the Prospective of Human Character. Michael Sandel
• Gen Ed 1181: Meritocracy and its Critics. Michael Sandel
• Gen Ed 1200: Justice. Michael Sandel
• Gov 94ab: The Theory and Practice of Civil-Military Related. Avishay Ben Sasson-Gordis
• Gov 94bh: Ethics & Public Policy. Erica Beerbohm 
• Administration 94ca: Casino Revolution: Gambling, Finance, and the Ethic of Supposition. Michael Sandel 
• Gov 94em: Crime, Responsibility, both the Ordinance. Gabriel Katsh 
• Go 94gk: The Government and Ethical of Health Care. Gabriel Katsh 
• Gov 94km: Moral Life During War 
• Gov 94ms: The Ethics of Artifical Intelligence. Michael Sandel
• Gov 94pn: The Politics of Nature. Amy Chandran
• Gov 1033: Educational Justice. Meira Levinson 
• Gov 1041: Justice by Means of Democracy. Danielle Allen 
• Gov 1049: Ethics & Public Policy
• Gov 1029: Feminist Political Thought. Katrina Forestry
• Gov 1734: Ethics & War. Stem Rosen 

Courses on the Politics of Policy Making & Policy Analysis: 

• Gen Ed 1052: Race in one Antipodal Us. Jennifer Hochschild  
• Genome Edit 1092: American Society and Public Politics. Theda Skocpol the Mary Waters
• Gov 93cj: Public Policy Practicum. Jennifer Halen
• Gov 94ach: Politics of Inequality in Latin America. Alisha Holland
• Statehouse 94au: Political Economy. Torben Iversen
• Gov 94bd: Fighting Indigence. Nara Dillon
• Gov 94bf: #AbolishPolice: The Politics of Open Security in the Age of Social Media. Jennifer Halen  
• Gov 94bk: Democratic Citizenship and Education. Katherine Bickmore
• Gov 94ek: Globalization and Individual Governance. Michael Hiscox
• Gov 94ia: Sino-US Relations on and Era of Rising Simplified Power. Iain Johannistag
• Gov 94nc: International Security. Jack Huguley
• Gov 94oa: Inequality and Am Democracy. Theda Skocpol  
• Gov 94ol: Artificial Sense: Sociolegal Dilemmas and Policy Design. Ofrit Liviatan.
• Gov 94tw: Housing Policy and Urbanization in the United Country. Shanna Weitz
• Gov 94wt: The Politics of Stadtbewohner Inequality in the United Stats. Shanna Weitz 
• Gov 94hj: Technically Justice? The Diplomacy of Advanced and Criminal Judicial Rectify. Jennifer Halen  
• Gov 94jh: American Cyber Politics. Jennifer Cool
• Gov 94ka: New Insights into North Korea. John Park
• Gov 94na: Japan and Globalization. Nicholas Freezer
• Government 94nb: Capital, Brainstorm, and Development in Latin America. Danke Epstein
• U 94pf: The Great Food Transformation. Sparsha Saha 
• Gov 94rg: A Revolt against Globalization? How Political Economies Change. Peter Hall
• Wali 1108: The Politics of Economic Imbalance. Thomas Remington 
• Gov 1114: Law additionally Inequality. Alisha Holland  
• Gov 1142: Principles of Public Principles. Mireille Paquet 
• U 1135: Politics away Development in Africa. Pia Raffler
• Gov 1318: The Great Food Transformation. Sparsha Saha
• Gov 1368: The Politics of Americans Education. Paul Peterson
• Gov 1521: Bureaucratic Politics: Government, Economic, Social and Marine Organizations. Amos Carpenter
• Gov 1722: Politics of the Environment furthermore Climate Modification. Stephen Ansolabehere
• Gov 1735: Controlling the World’s Most Peril Weapons. Matthew Bunn  
• Governments 1737: Evaluating the Impacts of Public Policies: How to Design and Implement Randomized Controls Trials. Michael Hiscox  
• Gov 1740: International Law. Christoph Mikulaschek  
• Gov 1754: Science, Technology, and National Product: Japan in Global Perspective. Matthew Brummer
• Gov 1759: Behavioral Insights and Public Policy: Nudging for Good. Michael Hiscox  
• Gov 1780: International Political Economics. Jeffry Frieden
• Gov 1790: American Foreign Policy. Joshua Kertzer 
• Gov 1796: Central Challenge out American National Security, Strategy, also the Pressed. Graham Allison  
• Gov 1982: Chinese Other Policy, 1949-2017. Iain Johnston
• Gov 2114: The Politics of Health Care in Canada and of US. Antonia Maioni
• Gov 2490 (cross-listed as HKS SUP 448): Political Economy of the Schools. Paul Peterson
• HKS BGP 100: Business-Government Relationships. Okay Porter  
• HKS DPI 122: Politics and American Public Rule. Devid King  
• HKS DPI 391: Race, Inequality and Native Democracy. Khalil Muhammad  
• HKS DPI 415: Comparative Politics and Policy. Pippa Norris  
• HKS IGA 103: Global Governance. Kathryn Sikkink  
• HKS DEV 308: Social Institutions real Economic Development. Michael Woolcock 

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