PBPL 48: Policy Analysis and Local Governance

Professor Andrew Samwick, 11W: 10A

This course analyzes the public policy challenges faced by local communities
and serves as a gateway to the Rockefeller Center's Policy Research Shop.
Particular emphasis will be placed on the problems of urban areas, including
education, crime, poverty, economic development, transportation, and
housing.
Throughout the course, students
will use both their hometowns and
towns in New Hampshire and
Vermont to study how specific
communities have attempted to
address these challenges. The
course examines the roles of
various actors--citizens, non-
profits, and government agencies
at all levels--in effecting positive
change in local public policy
outcomes. Dist: SOC; WCult: W.