Jan 13, 2025  
OHIO University Graduate Catalog 2024-25 
    
OHIO University Graduate Catalog 2024-25
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POLS 5758 - Race and Public Policy in Comparative Perspective


Seeks to conceptualize, explore and explain the complex relationships between race and the creation, implementation and evaluation of public policy. First half offers overview of some dominant theories of public policy, including rational actor models, institutionalism, policy framing and agenda-setting, causal stories, and policy networks. Second, applies these theories in order to complete a more in-depth examination of policy areas that have either implicitly or explicitly institutionalized racial difference and/or disadvantage. Focus will be comparative; though substantial examples drawn from the United States and the industrialized world, also draws insights from developing contexts as necessary.

Requisites:
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
  • Students will comprehend the interrelatedness of race and public policies in comparative settings.
  • Students will have developed a sophisticated critical perspective through which to analyze and debate the relationship between race, public policy and our democratic commitments.
  • Students will understand dominant theories of public policy, including rational choice models, institutionalism, and policy networks.



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