There are no books to purchase for this class. All readings will be shared on perusall. For each week, you should complete the assigned reading and material before coming to class. For the reading, you should highlight particular sections of interest for discussion in our collaborative annotations along with your thoughts; these will frame our discussion. T

Policy Frameworks

8/25 What is Policy? What is Equity?

• Octavia Butler. 2005. “The Book of Martha.” Bloodchild and Other Stories. Seven Stories Press.
• Ursula K. Le Guin. 1973/1975. “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas.” The Winds Twelve Quarters. Harper & Row.
• Paul Cairney podcast/blog post: What is Policy

8/30 What is Equity? Policy Frameworks: Rational Process

• Executive Order 13985. January 20, 2021. Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government
• William Blanchard. 1986. “Evaluating Social Equity: What Does Fairness Mean and Can We Measure It?” Policy Studies Journal 15(1): 29-52.
• Deborah A. Stone. 2011. Policy Paradox: The Art of Political Decision Making, 3rd Edition. Chapter 2: Equity

9/1 Policy Frameworks: Multiple Streams and Agendas

• John W. Kingdon. 2010. Agendas, Alternatives, and Public Policies, 2nd edition. Pearson. Chapter 8: The Policy Window and Joining the Streams and Chapter 9: Health Care Reform in the Clinton and Obama Administrations.

Teams Formed

9/6 Policy Frameworks: Advocacy Coalitions

• Michael Parenti. 1970. “Power and Pluralism: A View from the Bottom.” The Journal of Politics 32(3):501-530.
• Paul Cairney podcast/blog post: The Advocacy Coalition Framework

Populations Selected

9/8 Policy Frameworks: What’s the Problem

• Carol Bacchi and Susan Goodwin. 2016. Poststructural Policy Analysis: A Guide to Practice. Palgrave. Chapter 2: Making Politics Visible: The WPR Approach.
• Carol Bacchi. 1999. Women, Policy, and Politics: The Construction of Policy Problems. Sage. Chapter 7: Child Care Policy: Who Gains?

9/13 Policy Frameworks: Policy Feedback and Social Construction

• Anne Schneider and Helen Ingram. 1993. “Social Construction of Target Populations: Implications for Politics and Policy.” The American Political Science Review 87(2): 334-347.
• Suzanne Mettler and Mallory Sorelle. 2018. “Policy Feedback Theory.” Theories of the Policy Process, 4th edition. Routledge.

9/15 Policy Frameworks: Policy Types and Tools

• Lester Salamon. 2002. The New Governance and the Tools of Public Action: An Introduction. Chapter 1.

Pre-Brief Sketch due by 11:59 pm Wednesday

Policy Interventions and Analysis

9/20 Problem Definitions, Types of Problems

• W.E.B. DuBois. 1897. “The Strivings of the Negro People.” The Atlantic.
• Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman. 1981. “The Framing of Decisions and the Psychology of Choice.” Science 211:543-458.e
• Moira O’Neil and Julie Sweetland. 2018. Piecing it together: A framing playbook for affordable housing advocates. Washington, DC: FrameWorks Institute.

9/22 Brief 1 Round Robin

9/27 Brief 1 Presentations

Brief 1 due 10/1 (by 11:59 pm)

9/29 Policy Evidence

• Rebecca C. Hetey and Jennifer L. Eberhardt. 2018. “The Numbers Don’t Speak for Themselves: Racial Disparities and the Persistence of Inequality in the Criminal Justice System.” Current Directions in Psychological Science 27: 183–187.
• Carlos Martin and Jamal Lewis. 2019. “The State of Equity Measurement: A Review for Energy-Efficiency Programs.” Urban Institute, pgs. 1-34.

10/4 Policy Alternatives

• Paul Slovic, David Zionts, Andrew K. Woods, Ryan Goodman, and Derek Jinks. 2013. Psychic Numbing and Mass Atrocity.” The Behavioral Foundations of Public Policy, Eldar Shafir (ed). Princeton University Press. Chapter 7.
• Elke U. Weber. 2013. “Doing the Right Thing Willingly: Using the Insights of Behavioral Decision Research for Better Environmental Decisions” The Behavioral Foundations of Public Policy, Eldar Shafir (ed). Princeton University Press. Chapter 22.

10/6 Policy Selection and Tradeoffs

• Paul Brest. 2013. “Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Debiasing the Policy Makers Themselves.” The Behavioral Foundations of Public Policy, Eldar Shafir (ed). Princeton University Press. Chapter 29 (pages 481-493)
• Fisman, Raymond, Pamela Jakiela, Shachar Kariv, and Daniel Markovits. 2015. “The Distributional Preferences of an Elite.” Science 349(6254):aab0096

Article discussed in class

• Tali Mendelberg, Katherine T. McCabe, and Adam Thal. 2017. “College Socialization and the Economic Views of Affluent Americans.” American Journal of Political Science 61(3): 606-623. (Official Version at JSTOR, Preprint Version)

10/11 Reading Day

10/13 Brief 2 Round Robin

10/18 Brief 2 Presentations

Brief 2 due 10/22 (by 11:59 pm)

10/20 Policy Outcomes and Tradeoffs; Policy Analysis Revisited

• Law and Political Economy Project. 2021. Symposium on the Future of Cost-Benefit Analysis.
  • Presidential Memorandum. January 20, 2021. Modernizing Regulatory Review.
  • Frank Pasquale, “Cost-Benefit Analysis at a Crossroads: A Symposium on the Future of Quantitative Policy Evaluation,” 2021-09-27
  • Lisa Heinzerling, “Climate Change, Racial Justice, and Cost-Benefit Analysis.” 2021-09-28
  • Zachary Liscow, “Equity in Regulatory Cost-Benefit Analysis.” 2021-10-04
• John S. Dryzek. 2002. “A Post-Positivist Policy-Analytic Travelogue.” The Good Society 11(1): 32-36
• Steven Rathgeb Smith and Helen M. Ingram. 2002. “Rethinking Policy Analysis: Citizens, Community, and the Restructuring of Public Services.” The Good Society 11(1): 55-60.

Policy Implementation

10/25 Design Processes

• Tony Bovaird. 2007. “Beyond Engagement and Participation: User and Community Coproduction of Public Services.” Public Administration Review 67(5): 846-860.
• Gemma Carey, Helen Dickinson, and Sue Olney. 2017. “What Can Feminist Theory Offer Policy Implementation Challenges?” Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice 15(1): 143-159.

10/27 People and Places

• Michael Lipsky. 2010. Street-Level Bureaucracy: Dilemmas of the Individual in Public Service. Russell Sage Foundation. Chapter 1: The Critical Roles of Street-Level Bureaucrats.
• Laurel Eckhouse. 2021. “Metrics Management and Bureaucratic Accountability: Evidence from Policing.” American Journal of Political Science Forthcoming issue.

11/1 Design Signals

• Pamela Herd and Donald P. Moynihan. 2018. Administrative Burden: Policymaking by Other Means. Russell Sage Foundation. Chapter 4: The Affordable Care Act.
• Annie Lowrey. 2021. “The Time Tax.” The Atlantic. July 27, 2021.

11/3 Brief 3 Round Robin

11/8 Brief 3 Presentations

Brief 3 submitted 11/12 (by 11:59 pm)

11/10 Evaluation

• Patricia Rogers. 2016. “Understanding and Supporting Equity: Implications of Methodological and Procedural Choices in Equity-Focused Evaluation.” In Evaluation for an Equitable Society, Donaldson and Picciotto (eds.).
• Frank Farrow and Sarah Morrison. 2019. “Placing Equity Concerns at the Center of Knowledge Development. Center for the Study of Social Policy.

• We All Count Blog posts (Heather Krause)

  • Better for Who?
  • How to Make the Shift to Equitable Evaluation
  • Framing Research Questions that Reflect Who Is Expected to Change

11/15 Equity Assessment Tools

• Julie Nelson and Lisa Brooks. 2016. Racial Equity Toolkit: An Opportunity to Operationalize Equity. Government Alliance on Race & Equity
• Center for Place‐Based Initiatives at the University of Texas Dell Medical School. 2018. City of Austin Equity Assessment Tool Pilot I. City of Austin Equity Office.

11/17 Back to the start

• Office of Management and Budget. 2021. Study to Identify Methods to Assess Equity: Report to the President. Pgs 12-48.

11/22 Group Work

11/24 Thanksgiving Break

11/29 Group Work

12/1 Brief 4 Round Robin

12/6 Brief 4 Presentations

Brief 4 due 12/10 (by 11:59 pm)