This project is an exercise in the scholarly study of public policy analysis. Students are expected to perform the following tasks:
(a) Choose a substantive issue pertaining to public policy formulation, adoption, implementation, program evaluation, ethics of policy analysis, etc. The choice may pertain to an empirical issue, or it may deal with a normative topic.
(b) Examine a substantial portion of the social scientific and scholarly literature analyzing that issue.
(c) Select one or more explanations or perspectives from that literature for the chosen phenomenon.
