This purpose of this page is to provide materials and resources for the seminar. We have incorporated Web Board an internet conferencing system into the class. To visit our class discussions click here . You will need to make up a password the first time you enter. Students are expected to regularly read and contribute to the discussions of the assigned readings.
Visitors are welcome to browse and to contribute if they wish.
The major assignment for the semester is a write a paper that provides a theoretical framework for the analysis of a public policy and then interprets the findings based on that theoretical model. The objective is to produce a publishable empirical paper. Successful projects need not be actually published or even submitted for publication, but this should still be your goal. To the extent possible you should direct your time and effort to conceptual development and analysis rather than data collection. For this reason I encourage you to work with an existing data base.