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Section I. What's Wrong? Part A. Identifying the Problem (Week 01, January 7-11)
Section I. What's Wrong? Part A. Identifying the Problem (Week 01, January 7-11)
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For Week 01, please read the first 5 pages of Biggs and Helm and the whole of Graham and Hand. When you do, ask "how are they defining the problem here?" and "how would I use the same skills to define my own problem. Be prepared to write and/or discuss problems you would like to deal with that affect the Detroit metropolitan area
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A brief but technical reading on the nature of problems and how we come to see them as problems.
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A longer (but only slightly longer) reading with examples from specific efforts in North Carolina and a set of useful guidelines for identifying problems.
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Section I. What's Wrong? Part B. Investigating and Framing the Problem (Week 02, Jan. 14-18)
Section I. What's Wrong? Part B. Investigating and Framing the Problem (Week 02, Jan. 14-18)
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For Week 02, please read the clear introductory reading about information by Graham and Hand on the role of effective information in efforts to make change, and then think about your own information intake and evaluation methods using the Caulfield reading and the Johnson video.
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Graham and Hand's practical discussion of how ordinary citizens can become effectively informed on issues. Note well their recommendation about finding and actually talking to experts. This is something you can do as well.
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A short but extremely effective open-source reading on the techniques that anyone can use to quickly evaluate sources (based on the lessons of professional fact-checkers).
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A pair of brief videos that discuss the broader problem of information overconsumption and a metaphor about dealing with media the way we deal with food (limiting consumption, evaluating it for nutritional value).
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Section I. What's Wrong? Part C. Reframing the Problem (Week 03, Jan. 21-25)
Section I. What's Wrong? Part C. Reframing the Problem (Week 03, Jan. 21-25)
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For Week 03, read the selections from Chapter 05 of the Kraft and Furlong book on Public Policy and the rest of Chapter 04 from Biggs and Helms. The point of this week is to learn more tools for narrowing down the situations you are interested in so that you can create a specific problem definition (as specific as you can) that will let you delve into more detail about how the problem might be ameliorated.
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A brief additional section from the Biggs and Helms text that discusses ways to go deeper into policy analysis including discussions of use of quantitative measures, framing techniques and transforming "problems" (which may affect people in disparate ways) into "issues" (in which those multiple problems are brought together into a single framework that bring together those affected).
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A succinct summary of the ways that policy-makers define problems that lays out the basic framework for your work (and for your work on Paper One: Problem Assessment
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Section II. What Works? Part A. Solution Options: The Basic Framework (Week 04, Jan 28-Feb. 01)
Section II. What Works? Part A. Solution Options: The Basic Framework (Week 04, Jan 28-Feb. 01)
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The point of Week 04 is to think in a big way about the different kinds of social organization and how they solve problems differently. Which one of these seems to hold the most promise for the problem that /you/ want to solve?
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For Week 04 work on your Paper One and read this fairly short segment from Biggs and Helms on the four sectors/spheres of social problem solving.
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This is a short (12 page) reading that looks specifically at different ways (in this case sectors/spheres) for solving social problems. It is very important because it creates the framework for what we will do for this whole section.
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Section II. What Works? Part B. Solution Options: The Civic and Market Spheres (Week 05, Feb. 04-08)
Section II. What Works? Part B. Solution Options: The Civic and Market Spheres (Week 05, Feb. 04-08)
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The point of Week 05 is to think carefully about the degree to which the civic and market spheres offer effective solutions to the problems that you are interested in. Question: Can we solve this effectively with volunteers? Can we solve it with market incentives?
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For Week 05 read the readings from Biggs and Helms (not as long as it looks because I specify places you can skim) and from Eliasoph (very short) and the video of the debate between Porter and Sandel. Start to think about various solutions to your problem and do some research to see whether solutions have come from these sectors.
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Biggs and Helms talk about the instutions, logic and history of each sphere and the ways in which it interacts with government.
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Eliasoph has some useful thoughts about the relative merits of different parts of the civic sector--the relatively downstream activities of volunteering for service provision and the more upstream activities of engaging in activism (a kind of volunteering but very different). This reading also includes some of her definitions of key concepts.
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A debate between two prominent Harvard professors who disagree about the role of the market sector in solving social problems
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Section II. What Works? Part C. Solution Options: The Government Sphere (Week 06, Feb. 11-15)
Section II. What Works? Part C. Solution Options: The Government Sphere (Week 06, Feb. 11-15)
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The point of Week 06 is to think in big-picture terms about how governments can solve problems.and about how it is different at the macro-level from the civic and market spheres. Question: What is each sphere best at? What is each sphere worst at?
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For Week 06 read two medium-length texts that are not difficult but require close attention: Coleman analyzes the ways that people and organizations gain the ability to impose their will on others (what we know as power) while Kraft and Furlong (a textbook on public policy) talk about the specific methods of government operation and some reasons why government action becomes necessary.
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Coleman here talks in very broad terms about the ways we actually get people to do stuff. Pay close attention to the questions of legitimate power.
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Another reading from Kraft and Furlong's book on public policy. This reading asks you to think about the various types of government policy and the various circumstances that may call for government rather than another sphere. This is a fairly long pdf but you only need to read certain selected sections.
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Section II. What Works? Part D. Policy Levels: Local, Regional, National (Week 07, Feb. 18-22)
Section II. What Works? Part D. Policy Levels: Local, Regional, National (Week 07, Feb. 18-22)
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The point of Week 07 is to think about how large and comprehensive (or small and customized) a solution should be. Question: What is the best size/level of government at which to undertake an effort to solve the problems you are thinking about?
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For Week 07 read two medium-length chapters that focus on the details of government programs and, particularly, on the level or size of government where efforts can and should be undertaken (given the nature of the task and the limits of the US Constitution)
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A really concrete discussion of how to figure out who is responsible for your policy issue and some initial guidance on how to talk to them. Public officials are not only the people to try to persuade on issues--if they are already persuaded, they can be great sources of contacts and information.
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A more theoretical and comprehensive discussion of government levels, what they do and how they interact.
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Section II. What Works? Part E. Policy Tools: Taking, Giving and Telling (Week 08, Feb. 25-29)
Section II. What Works? Part E. Policy Tools: Taking, Giving and Telling (Week 08, Feb. 25-29)
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The point of Week 08 is to think about the role of various different kinds of policy tools in solving problems. In the large section we will be looking at the overall array of tools and then focus in on taxing and spending, and, given most of your projects, we will focus particularly on the spending within the realm of social welfare and redistribution. Question: What kind of government policy (taxing and spending, telling, educating) would have the effects of providing benefits on the questions you are concerned about? Would the net benefits exceed the net costs?
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For Week 08 you have a paper due so we've reduced the reading to a single set of short chapters from a book on social policy.
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A dense but fairly short reading on the ways in which the US does social policy and how that compares to other countries.
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Section III. What Wins? Part A. Reading Your Audience: "Left" versus "Right" (Week 09, Mar. 04-08)
Section III. What Wins? Part A. Reading Your Audience: "Left" versus "Right" (Week 09, Mar. 04-08)
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The point of Week 09 is to begin to think about what we would need to do to take good policy ideas (whether government, civic or market) and make them reality. That's going to mean looking at a lot of different factors including what people want, what policy-makers think they want, and how political processes work (more than just "how a bill becomes a law"). This week we start with the basics--what people want--and we start by looking at underlying American values and how those are expressed in two dimensions: economics and culture. Question: How would you talk about your proposal to people who want lower taxes? more personal freedom? more social order? more public services?
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For Week 09 you should begin to think about your next paper which compares the ability of certain plans to solve the problem /and/ find broad support that might bring it into operation.
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A short and very efficient reading that defines the basic underlying values of America's political life and tries to explain the meaning of the contested word "liberal" which means more than you might think. It's written by a magazine editor who agrees with the ideology of liberalism, so keep that in mind, but (again), it's not quite the "liberalism" you might think it is!
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A medium-length chapter from the book by Garfinkel and the other guys about the underlying values that Americans share and how these set them apart from other countries. Pay attention to the different threads and how they support or conflict with one another. It's even shorter than the length you'll see when you download it because we are including Chapter 7 for your education but not as a requirement.
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Section III. What Wins, Part B. Finding your Voice: Meet Your Legislator (Week 11, March 18-22)
Section III. What Wins, Part B. Finding your Voice: Meet Your Legislator (Week 11, March 18-22)
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The point of Week 11 is to start to think actively about the kinds of strategies it would take to make your proposal a reality. This means understanding where legislators stand on various issues (particularly using the new idea of multiple dimensions of left and right, different kinds of liberal). This week we will also look at the ways that legislators actually work, and start to think about the tools we could use to approach them and try and advance our issue. The same tools apply whether at the federal level, the state level or the county (and even city) levels and in places like the university. The task is to understand your proposal and what it does, understand your leaders and what they want and to try to find the common ground between the two.
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For Week 11 you should be thinking about your paper due in Week 13 which makes assessments of your plans based on the mix of their effectiveness and ability to gain support. You should also look ahead to your final paper which asks you to put together a plan that you could follow to make your proposal come to life.
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Two chapters from Graham and Hand of which we're only asking you to read the first, Chapter 05 in detail (you can skim Chapter 06 but be aware of its content). As usual with this short section, Graham and Hand get quickly to the question of how ordinary people actually figure out how to work with public officials to get them to move forward on important questions. Many of the same lessons apply to leaders in the civic and market spheres.
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A reading with quite a few pages but from which we are only requiring parts labelled 1, 2 and 3 (about half the total). Like Graham and Hand, this is a really practical framework for thinking about legislative offices and legislators and does a really good job of analyzing the ways to reach and persuade them.
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Section III. What Wins, Part C. Organizing for Success: Join the Party (Week 12 , March 25-29 [Moved forward one week]
Section III. What Wins, Part C. Organizing for Success: Join the Party (Week 12 , March 25-29 [Moved forward one week]
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The point of Week 12 is to understand the institutional pathways for making change. Working with a legislator is a nice option but it still has limited impact. Working with broader organizations--coalitions of advocacy organizations, political parties--will hep you intensify your reach. Joining and participating with institutions in their advocacy efforts and helping to shape party policy are an important means of shaping bigger types of change.
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For those trying to understand political parties, this is a very nice discussion about the internal diversity in those parties. This is useful because it means almost any policy will find some kind of home in each of the two major parties and these groupings provide starting points for that. Unfortunately people don't wear nametags saying "Devout Democract" or the like, but it is often possible to figure out who in a party will be the most amenable to your initiative.
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A brief and succinct reading about the other ways that advocates can work to do their job including working directly with agencies and institutions or working on referendums (which will come in handy next week). Below are the supplemental pages (the rest of the report) that give more direct advice and, at the end, provide a really helpful checklist that could easily serve as the basis for parts of the final paper.
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Section III. What Wins, Part D. Organizing for Success: Make Something New (Week 13, April 01-05)
Section III. What Wins, Part D. Organizing for Success: Make Something New (Week 13, April 01-05)
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The point of Week 13 is to understand community- and coalition-based pathways for making change. Working within existing institutional systems is a really important way to get things done, but sometimes it is necessary to develop your own efforts. In the contemporary era, this can be easier to do than it used to be (though it may be harder to keep things together over the long run). Echoing the "secret sauce" ideas suggested by Jamie Lyons-Eddy of Voters Not Politicians, we will look at citizens' efforts (sometimes called grass-roots) to make change.
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For Week 13, think about the possible ways of assembling support coalitions for your issue. The goal of this effort could be a referendum (as with VNP) or simply an effort to develop broad-based support sufficient to persuade parties or legislators. Think about what a coalition would look like. What kinds of organizations could you get to support you? And look to other places to see not only what kinds of policies they used to solve the problem but how they assembled a coalition to win the policy battle and make it happen! This is the goal of the Paper Four which is now posted below.
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Another efficient reading by Graham and hand with a clear example and then a concise but detailed task list for getting the job done with lots of the same advice that echos what we've heard from other sources.
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Once you have finished Paper Three, get started right away on Paper Four which is specified here
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Section III. What Wins, Part E. Finding your Voice: Meet Your Mayor (Week 14, April 08-12)
Section III. What Wins, Part E. Finding your Voice: Meet Your Mayor (Week 14, April 08-12)
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The point of Week 14 is to think about how to work with local government. This means understanding some of the basic mechanisms of local government as well as informal practices by individuals and groups.
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A fairly short reading about how to get your voice heard at the local level which details the kinds of groups and what those groups actually do to shape local policy.
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Section III. What Wins, Part F. Finding Your Voice: Getting Their Attention (Week 15, April 15-19)
Section III. What Wins, Part F. Finding Your Voice: Getting Their Attention (Week 15, April 15-19)
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The point of Week 15 is to think about how to get the attention of decision-makers, journalists and audiences and to work on your final projects.
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A moderate-length reading that is at its best when discussing traditional media.
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External UrlWill Schoder's Video on "The Attention Economy" Will Schoder's Video on "The Attention Economy"Score at least Must score at least to complete this module item Scored at least Module item has been completed by scoring at least View Must view in order to complete this module item Viewed Module item has been viewed and is complete Mark done Must mark this module item done in order to complete Marked done Module item marked as done and is complete Contribute Must contribute to this module item to complete it Contributed Contributed to this module item and is complete Submit Must submit this module item to complete it Submitted Module item submitted and is complete
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A nicely done short video piece on the pros and cons of our current media environment.
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I've also included the same chapter from the newer version of Graham and Hand. Unlike other chapters, this one has been completely revised (a lot has happened to media since 2006) and is worth reading if you are discussing media at all in your paper (and it /is/ part of your paper). Especially helpful are the many "Tips from the Pros" sections (Graham and Hand, to their credit, know what they don't know and get others to weigh in).
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