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2017-2018 Catalog and Handbook 
    
2017-2018 Catalog and Handbook [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

PADM 211 - Government, Politics and the Policy-Making Process (4 Credits)

Prerequisite: None
This course will explore the policy-making process in a range of public institutions and will introduce students to the approaches, methods, tools and techniques of decision making. The role of conventional political institutions, as well as alternatives to conventional politics will be studied. In the process, students will identify official, as well as unofficial, political actors, including those in the executive, legislative and judiciary branches of government; social and political activists; the media; and the public. Finally, the course will examine several models of the policy-making process.