POLS 3310: Foundations of Public Policy

3 Credit Hours

Prerequisite: POLS 1101 or permission of instructor.
This course serves as a general survey of public policy, beginning with efforts to define public policy through the most modern efforts to explain how public policy is made. Key themes include a comparative look at the development of public policy in democracies, including the stages of policymaking, punctuated equilibrium, issue networks, institutionalism, symbolism, and theories designed to explain the link between policy alternatives and the problems they are designed to solve.