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Bryan D. Jones
POL S 575
Seattle Campus
Covers political science research about policy processes. Research seminar addressing frameworks and perspectives on policy processes as they concern issue emergence, agenda dynamics, policy subsystems, policy learning, and implementation.
Class description
Description. This is a research seminar, so the focus will be on designing and executing a major research paper. We will be examining several areas in the American politics literature ripe for empirical study, including the production of legislation, patterns of spending, and legislative organization. Students will have access to data collected through the Policy Agendas project, run jointly by UW’s Center for American Politics and Public Policy and Texas A&M’s Department of Political Science.
Student learning goals
General method of instruction
Recommended preparation
Texts. A course pack.
Class assignments and grading
Assignments. Completing a potentially publishable research paper.
Grading: Papers: 75 %; Project/presentation: 25 %.
