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• Instructor: Hun Myoung Park (kucc625 @; 025-779-1464; Office 311)
• Class: 10:30-14:30 on Friday (C-202)
• Office hours: 11:00-12:00 on Thursday or by appointment
• Textbook: Bardach, Eugene, and Eric M. Patashnik. 2016. A Practical Guide for Policy Analysis: The Eightfold Path to More Effective Problem Solving, 5th ed. Sage & CQ Press.
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• Term Paper (1st draft by 02/15; final by 03/15) Template file
• Final exam (week 11) Exam template file

• 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. Weimer & Vining (2010) Chapter 2.
  3. Class nots Class slide
• Optional:
  1. Dewey (1927)
  2. Lowi, Theodore. 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.
  3. Weimer & Vining (2010) Chapter 14, 15 or Dunn (2012) Chapter 1, 2.
  4. Types of Policy Analysis (29 min)

• Readings:
  1. Wildavsky (2016) Introduction and Ch. 16
  2. Class nots
• 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. 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. Lindblom, Charles E. 1959. The Science of 'Muddling Through'. Public Administration Review 19(2): 79-88.
  4. Lindblom, Charles E. 1979. Still Muddling, Not Yet Through. Public Administration Review 39(6): 517-526.
  5. Majone (1989) Ch. 1-3.
  6. Aaron Wildavsky Forum on Public Policy (77 min)

• Readings:
  1. Bardach and Patashnik (2016) Part I (pp. 1-82).
  2. Class nots
• Options:
  1. Weimer & Vining (2010) Chapter 2.

• Readings: Bardach and Patashnik (2016) Part II (pp. 83-111).
• Options:
  1. Majone (1989) Ch. 3-4

• 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. Cost benefit analysis
  3. Cost Benefit Perspectives (9 min)
  4. Net Present Value (NPV) (10 min)
  5. Cost-Benefit Analysis and Shadow Prices (28 min)

• Readings: Hillier & Hillier (2014) Chapter 9 (9.1-9.3, and 9.5).
• Lecture Note Slide
• Optional:
  1. Albright & Winston (2005) Chapter 8.
  2. Stevenson and Ozgur (2007) Chapter 11

• Readings:
  1. Weick (1979) Chapter 3 (Interdependence and organizing. pp.65-88)
  2. Systems Thinking and Causal Loop Diagram Drawing Causal Loop Diagram
  3. Systems thinking: An introduction (42 min)
• Optional:
  1. Anderson & Johnson (1997)
  2. Sherwood (2002) Chapters 4, 7, and 11.
  3. Maruyama, Magoroh. 1963. The second cybernetics: Deviation-amplifying mutual causal processes. American Scientist 51(2): 164-179.
  4. Masuch, Michael. 1985. Vicious circles in organizations. Administrative Science Quarterly 30(1): 14-33.
  5. 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.
  6. Causality and causal loop diagrams (31 min)
  7. Brief intro to system dynamics and feedback, causal loop diagrams (87 min)
  8. Brief introduction to causal loop diagrams (49 min)
  9. Systems thinking: Help your giving great greater change (87 min)
  10. Peter Senge: Systems thinking for a better world (60 min)
  11. Systems thinking white boarding animation project (8 min)
  12. 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

• Readings:
  1. Dunn (2012) Ch. 9
  2. Majone (1989) Ch. 2
• Optional:
  1. Dunn (2012) Ch. 8
  2. Bardach and Patashnik (2016) Part II (pp. 72-82)

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