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  • PUBLPOL 205A: Judgment and Decision Making

    4.00 Credits
    Stanford University

    (Same as IPS 207A. Same as LAW 333.) Theories and research on heuristics and biases in human inference, judgment, and decision making. Experimental and theoretical work in prospect theory emphasizing loss and risk aversion. Support theory. Challenges that psychology offers to the rationalist expected utility model; attempts to meet this challenge through integration with modern behavioral economics. Decision making biases and phenomena of special relevance to public policy such as group polarization, group think, and collective action. 4 units, Win (Brest, P)
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  • PUBLPOL 205B: Public Policy and Social Psychology:Implications and Applications

    4.00 Credits
    Stanford University

    (Same as IPS 207B, PSYCH 216.) Theories, insights, and concerns of social psychology relevant to how people perceive issues, events, and each other, and links between beliefs and individual and collective behavior. Topics include: situationist and subjectivist traditions of applied and theoretical social psychology; social comparison, dissonance, and attribution theories; social identity, stereotyping, racism, and sources of intergroup conflict and misunderstanding; challenges to universality assumptions regarding human motivation, emotion, and perception of self and others; the problem of producing individual and collective changes in norms and behavior. 4 units, Spr (Ross, L)
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  • PUBLPOL 206: Writing and Rhetoric for Policy Audiences

    3.00 Credits
    Stanford University

    Techniques of effective writing and argument for addressing decision makers, interest groups, and the public. The importance of apparent simplicity; uses and misuses of history and historical analogies; and incentives, cognitive limits, and biases of audiences. Why some arguments become traditional. Sources include historical briefing papers and oral arguments. Students write briefing papers and make oral arguments, individually and in teams. Enrollment limited. Prerequisite: consent of instructor. 4 units, Win (Owen, B; Rosston, G)
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  • PUBLPOL 207: Justice

    4.00 - 5.00 Credits
    Stanford University

    (Same as ETHICSOC 171, IPS 208, PHIL 171, PHIL 271, POLISCI 136S.) Focus is on the ideal of a just society, and the place of liberty and equality in it, in light of contemporary theories of justice and political controversies. Topics include protecting religious liberty, financing schools and elections, regulating markets, assuring access to health care, and providing affirmative action and group rights. Issues of global justice including human rights and global inequality. 4-5 units, Aut (Cohen, J)
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  • PUBLPOL 209: Practicum

    5.00 Credits
    Stanford University

    (Same as IPS 209.) Applied policy exercises in various fields. Multidisciplinary student teams apply skills to a contemporary problem in a major policy exercise with a public sector client such as a government agency. Problem analysis, interaction with the client and experts, and presentations. Emphasis is on effective written and oral communication to lay audiences of recommendations based on policy analysis. 5 units, Aut, Win (Sprague, M; Oleson, K)
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  • PUBLPOL 231: Political Economy of Health Care in the United States

    4.00 Credits
    Stanford University

    (Same as MGTECON 331, HRP 391.) The economic tools and institutional and legal background to understand how markets for health care products and services work. Moral hazard and adverse selection. Institutional organization of the health care sector. Hospital and physician services markets, integrated delivery systems, managed care, pharmaceutical and medical device industries. Public policy issues in health care, medical ethics, regulation of managed care, patients' bill of rights, regulation of pharmaceuticals, Medicare reform, universal health insurance, and coverage of the uninsured. International perspectives, how other countries' health care systems evolved, and what the U.S. can learn from their experiences. 4 units, Spr (Kessler, D; Bundorf, M)
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  • PUBLPOL 299: Master of Arts Thesis

    1.00 - 5.00 Credits
    Stanford University

    Restricted to students writing a master's thesis in Public Policy. May be repeated for credit. 1-5 units, Aut (Staff), Win (Staff), Spr (Staff)
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  • PWR 1: Writing and Rhetoric

    1.00 Credits
    Stanford University

    Fulfills first level of the writing requirement. Rhetorical and contextual analysis of readings, research, and argument. Focus is on development of a substantive research-based argument using multiple sources. Individual conferences with instructor. 4 units, Aut (Staff), Win (Staff), Spr (Staff)
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  • PWR 191: Advanced Writing

    3.00 Credits
    Stanford University

    Open to undergraduates and graduate students. Crafting nonfiction prose in a range of genres. Focus is on the relationship of genre and form; attention to developing stylistic versatility. Individual conferences with instructor. Prerequisite: first two levels of the writing requirement or equivalent transfer credit. 3 units, Spr (Staff)
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  • PWR 192: Projects in Research,Writing,and Rhetoric

    3.00 Credits
    Stanford University

    Advanced work on research projects, early drafts of theses, expository excursions, manifestos, scripts, first-hand accounts, investigative reports, proposals, comic disputations, and other textual, rhetorical and imaginative explorations. Shared work, discussions, and examination of methods, rhetorics, and styles in all disciplines. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: first two levels of the writing requirement or equivalent transfer credit. 1-5 units, Aut (Obenzinger, H)
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