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• Instructor: Hun Myoung Park (kucc625 @; 025-779-1464; Office 311)
• Class: 10:30-14:30 (Zoom) on Monday and Wednesday
• Office hours: 14:40-15:40 on Monday and Wednesday (Zoom)
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▒ Assignment & Exam

• Homework assignment: Memo sample
• Final exam (13:00, Dec. 13) : COVID-19 (CLD) | Exam template file
• Exam sample 1 sample 2 sample 3

▓ Week 1: Public Policy & Policy Analysis

Readings

1. Weimer & Vining (2010) Chapter 2.
2. Class note: Public Policy

Optional

1. Cairney (2021). Chapter 2.
2. Dewey (1927)
3. Lowi, Theodore J. 1988. Foreword: New Dimensions in Policy and Politics. In Social Regulatory Policy: Moral Controversies in American Politics. Edited by Raymond Tatalovich and Byron W. Daynes, x-xxi. CO: Westview Press.
4. Lowi, Theodore J. 1972. Four Systems of Policy, Politics, and Choice. Public Administration Review 32(4): 298-310.
5. Weimer & Vining (2010) Chapter 14, 15 or Dunn (2012) Chapter 1, 2.
6. Types of Policy Analysis (29 min)
7. Public goods vs. common pool resources

▓ Week 2: Art of Policy Analysis 1

Readings

1. Landau, Martin. 1977. The Place of Policy Analysis in Political Science: Five Perspectives--The Proper Domain of Policy Analysis. American Journal of Political Science 21(2): 423-427.
2. Wildavsky (2018) Introduction (xxxi-lii).
3. Class note: Policy Analysis

Options

1. Guess and Farnham (2011). Chapter 2
2. Landau, Martin, and Russell Stout, Jr. 1979. To Manage Is Not To Control: Or the Folly of Type II Errors. Public Administration Review 39(2): 148-156.
3. Stout (1980) Chapter 1.
4. Aaron Wildavsky Forum on Public Policy (77 min)

▓ Week 3: Art of Policy Analysis 2

Readings

1. Majone (1989) Chapter 1.
2. Class note: Policy Analysis As Art

Options

1. Cohen, Michael D., James G. March, and Johan P. Olsen. 1972. A Garbage Can Model of Organizational Choice. Administrative Science Quarterly 17(1): 1-25.
2. Kingdon, John W. 2011. Agendas, Alternatives, and Public Policies. Boston: Longman.
3. Rochefort and Cobb (1994). Chapter 1 and 9.

▓ Week 4: Craft of Policy Analysis

Readings

1. Majone (1989) Chapter 2-3.
2. Wildavsky (2018) Chapter 16 "Analysis as craft"
3. Class note: Policy Analysis As Craft

Options

1. Lindblom, Charles E. 1959. The Science of 'Muddling Through'. Public Administration Review 19(2): 79-88.
2. Lindblom, Charles E. 1979. Still Muddling, Not Yet Through. Public Administration Review 39(6): 517-526.

▓ Week 5: Causality Assessment

Readings

1. Anderson & Johnson (1997)
2. Weick (1979) Chapter 3 (Interdependence and organizing. pp.65-88)
3. Systems Thinking and Causal Loop Diagram Drawing Causal Loop Diagram
4. Systems thinking: An introduction (42 min)

Optional

1. Sherwood (2002) Chapters 4, 7, and 11.
2. Maruyama, Magoroh. 1963. The second cybernetics: Deviation-amplifying mutual causal processes. American Scientist 51(2): 164-179.
3. Masuch, Michael. 1985. Vicious circles in organizations. Administrative Science Quarterly 30(1): 14-33.
4. Wender, Paul H. 1968. Vicious and virtuous circles: The role of deviation amplifying feedback in the origin and perpetuation of behavior. Psychiatry 31(4): 309-324.
5. Causality and causal loop diagrams (31 min)
6. Brief intro to system dynamics and feedback, causal loop diagrams (87 min)
7. Brief introduction to causal loop diagrams (49 min)
8. Systems thinking: Help your giving great greater change (87 min)
9. Peter Senge: Systems thinking for a better world (60 min)
10. Systems thinking white boarding animation project (8 min)
11. Systems thinking, complexity theory and management (103 min)

CLD & System Dynamics Software

1. Vensim by Ventana Systems
2. AnyLogic
3. Powersim Studio by Powersim Software
4. iThink | STELLA
5. Drawing causal loop diagrams with Vensim (13 min)
6. Systems thinker

▓ Week 6: Basics of Cost-Benefit Analysis

Readings

1. Krutilla, Kerry. 2005. Using the Kaldor-Hicks tableau format for cost-benefit analysis and policy evaluation. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 24(4): 864-875.

Options

1. Boardman, Greenberg, Vining, and Weimer (2011) Chapter 1.
2. Boardman, Anthony, Aidan Vining, and W.G. Waters, II. 1993. Costs and Benefits Through Bureaucratic Lenses: Example of a Highway Project. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 12(3): 532-555.
3. Guess and Farnham (2011). Chapter 6, 7.
4. Cost benefit analysis
5. Cost Benefit Perspectives (9 min)
6. Net Present Value (NPV) (10 min)
7. Cost-Benefit Analysis and Shadow Prices (28 min)

▓ Week 7: Policy Argument

Readings

1. Majone (1989) Chapter 4 and 6
2. Dunn (2012) Chapter 8. Developing Policy Arguments.
3. Class note: Policy Argument

Options

1. Bardach and Patashnik (2016) Part I (pp. 1-82) and Part II (pp. 83-111).
2. Weimer & Vining (2010) Chapter 2.

▓ Week 8: Policy Communication

Readings

1. Dunn (2012) Chapter 9. Communicating Policy Analysis.
2. Majone (1989) Chapter 2
3. Tables and Figures
4. How to make a bad talk
5. COVID-19 (CLD)

Optional

1. Dunn (2012) Chapter 8
2. Bardach and Patashnik (2016) Part II (pp. 72-82)

Final Exam in week 11

▒ Policy Modeling Journals

• Policy Studies Journal by Wiley (2.364) EBSCO → "Chicago"
• Journal of Policy Analysis and Management (JPAM) by Wiley 2.262) | Jstor → (apa)
• Journal of Public Policy by Cambridge Univ. (1.033) | Jstor → (Apa)
• Publius by Oxford Univ. (1.068) | Jstor → chicago
• Science and Public Policy by Oxford Univ. (.983)
• Policy Sciences by Springer → (apa)
• Management Science from Jstor | EBSCO → chicago
• Operations Research from Jstor | EBSCO
• Journal of Policy Modeling by Elsevier (1.387) | ScienceDirect → (apa)
• Journal of the Operational Research Society by Palgrave MacMillan | Jstor
• Politics and Policy by Wiley → "Chicago"
• Public Policy and Administration by Sage (.556)
• Policy Studies by Taylor Francis (.366)
• Harvard journal of law & public policy | EBSCO
• Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice by Taylor Francis
• Journal of Asian Public Policy by Taylor Francis
• Philosophy and Public Policy Quarterly by George Mason