PhD in Public Policy

Advanced introduction to public policy; policy paradox; garbage can models; multiple streams; punctuated equilibrium theory; critical perspectives on agenda setting; policy networks; advocacy coalition framework; discourse coalitions; institutionalism; institutional analysis and development framework; comparative policy analysis; policy transfer; technocratic policy analysis; critical, interpretive, and discursive policy analysis; deliberative policy analysis; policy design, policy instruments & policy implementation; policy monitoring, evaluation, feedback & learning; policy innovation, policy diffusion, behavioral public policy; complexity theory in public policy; foresight; public policy in post-truth politics

Introduction to qualitative methods for policy research, ontology and epistemology, validity, reliability and trustability and the role of theory, designing qualitative & mixed methods research, data sources, measurement and qualitative data collection tools, designing questions for interview and survey techniques, fieldwork strategies and ethics for research, case study research, mixing data and triangulation, narratives, grounded theory, types of qualitative data analyses, coding qualitative data, writing up qualitative & mixed research, and theoretical debates, issues and ethical dilemmas of qualitative policy research

Basic methodologies used in quantitative social description, the role of quantitative analysis in public policy analysis and evaluation, quantitative research design, data collection and measurement, data description: descriptive statistics; measures of dispersion, probability: different quantitative techniques; introduction to statistical inference, hypothesis testing: null hypothesis; logic of testing; sample t test, Cross-Tabulation: Comparisons of group means; cross-tabs; chi2 statistics, correlation and introduction to regression basic concepts; correlation; bivariate regression, assumptions of regression analysis: 5 classical assumptions; properties of an estimator, multiple regressions: extension of bivariate model; partial slope coefficients, time series analysis: an introduction, basic regression analysis with time series data, conducting empirical policy research

Introduction to wicked problems and public policy, debates in public policy analysis and design, politics of public policy, public policy and international relations, just sustainable development and public policy, issues and challenges in environmental policy, issues and challenges in urban management policy, issues and challenges in digital and governance policy, contemporary issues in public policy