PUBLIC POLICY

This subfield features studies in these areas:

• American public policy
• Comparative public policy
• International public policy
• Theoretical issues in public policy
• Substantive areas within public policy
  In the substantive areas, students may select:
  • Health
  • Education
  • Welfare
  • Housing
  • Urban development
  • Natural resources
  • Or, with the permission of the Executive Officer, other policy areas.

Faculty include:

• Christa Altenstetter, comparative public policy, health policy, policy-making in the European Union
• Alan DiGaetano, public policy, comparative urbanism
• Joyce Gelb, interest groups, social movements, comparative public policy, women and politics
• Marilyn Gittell, state, local and urban politics, education policy
• John Goering, housing and urban policy
• Janet Gornick, public policy, gender
• Donna Kirchheimer, public policy
• Frederick S. Lane, organizational behavior, public management
• James Levine, public policy, law, criminal justice
• John Mollenkopf, urban politics, public policy, comparative urbanism
• Gregg Van Ryzin, policy, housing, courts