Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies Center for International Security and Cooperation Stanford University


CISAC Courses


Organizations

Course number(s): IPS 206B/PUBLPOL 304B
Offered Spring quarter in the 2009-2010 academic year

Instructors
Lynn Eden - Senior Research Scholar and Associate Director for Research, CISAC
Stephen J. Stedman - Professor of Political Science (by courtesy) and Senior Fellow at CISAC and FSI

Policy reform and organizational resistance. Organizations include government and other bureaucracies such as not-for-profit schools, universities, hospitals, international organizations, political parties, and agencies. Hubris and policy making, including pathologies of decision making and planning, abuse of intelligence, biased information, overselling to publics, lack of knowledge about context, and unintended consequences.

Level
Graduate

Units
4

Department
International Policy Studies/Public Policy
School of Humanities and Sciences