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SMNR: Policy Making in the New Political Environment

  • Semester: Spring 2016
  • Course ID: 397S
  • Credit Hours: 3
  • Unique: 28713

Course Information

  • Course Type: Seminar
  • Grading Method: Pass/Fail Allowed (JD only)
  • Cross-listed with other school

Registration Information

  • Upperclass-only elective

Meeting Times

Day Time Location
WED 2:00 - 5:00 pm SRH 3.220

Description

Why do some public policy reforms succeed where others fail? How do policymakers generate public and political support for a policy idea and subsequently implement it? Reforming public policy requires more than writing good policy white papers or helping elect the “right candidate.” It requires policy entrepreneurship, especially in the rapidly changing political landscape of the 21st century. Policy entrepreneurs understand how to build public support for a defensible yet untested policy idea and maneuver within political realities to implement that idea in a legislative or governing agenda. This course helps aspiring policymakers understand the art of policy entrepreneurship. The course will help you understand what policy entrepreneurship is and what it isn’t and how successful policymaking in the 21st century occurs. We will examine successes and failures and place a special emphasis on how new modes of political communication and strategizing, both in campaigns and in a governing context, contribute to successful policy reforms.

Instructors

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Important Class Changes

Date Updated
02/29/2016 Course is cross listed
Room(s) changed
Course title updated