PUBLIC POLICY                  POLI 250.01               STUDY GUIDE         FALL 2003

 

 

1.         Intellectual Property and Technology

 

Charles Mann, "Who Will Own Your Next Good Idea?," The Atlantic Monthly (September 1998)

 

Alvin Walton, "Technology Versus African Americans," The Atlantic Monthly (January 1999)

 

 

2.         Policy Models andVariations and the Use of Information

 

Birkland, "Policies and Policy Types"

 

Sun Tzu, "Employment of Secret Agents," The Art of War

 

 

3.         The Application of Policy…in the Real World

 

Barbara Ehrenreich, "Serving in Florida"

 

Birkland, " Policy Design and Policy Tools"

 

Claude M. Steele, "Thin Ice: "Stereotype Threat" and Black College Students," The Atlantic Monthly (August 1999)

 

 

4.         Policy Implementation and Evaluation

Birkland, " Policy Implementation and Policy Failure"

 

Barbara Ehrenreich, "Evaluation," pp. 193-221.