Research Guides: Urban Policy: Find OER

Select Open Educational Books for Urban Policy

Deliberative Public Engagement with Science

MERLOT
2021

Analytic Techniques for Public Management and Policy

OER Commons
2021

Economy, Society and Public Policy

MERLOT
2023

Financial Strategy for Public Managers

OER Commons
2016

Inquiry of the Public Sort

Pressbooks

An Introduction to U.S. Public Policy: Theory and Practice

Pressbooks
2023

Playing the Policy Game: Basic Knowledge and Skills for Effective Policy Process Participation

OER Commons
2023

Public Policy: Origins, Practice, and Analysis

OER Commons
2022

Quantitative Research Methods for Political Science, Public Policy and Public Administration

OER Commons
2020

Quantitative Research Methods for Political Science, Public Policy and Public Administration for Undergraduates: 1st Edition With Applications in Excel

OER Commons
2020

Additional Open Educational Resources for Urban Policy

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11.002J / 17.30J Making Public Policy "Fundamentals of Public Policy is an introductory course that explores policy-making as both a problem-solving process and a political process."
11.020 Poverty, Public Policy and Controversy | Urban Studies and Planning "This course covers topics and questions such as: What is poverty? How is it defined and measured in the United States and other countries? What are the different program designs that countries use to relieve poverty? To answer these questions, the course examines the main public policy frames that guide theory, research, policy, and practice."
11.902 Advanced Urban Public Finance: Collective Action And Provisions Of Local Public Goods "The objective of the seminar is to broaden the discussion of local public finance by incorporating collective action problems into the discourse. This inclusion aims at exploring alternative institutional arrangements for financing local public services in the face of severe economic downturn. Applications of emerging ideas to the provision of public health, education, and natural resource conservation will be discussed."
14.03 Microeconomic Theory and Public Policy (MIT) "This course applies microeconomic theory to analysis of public policy. It builds from the microeconomic model of consumer behavior and extends to operation of single and multiple markets and analysis of why markets sometimes fail."
14.20 Industrial Organization and Public Policy | Economics "This is a course in industrial organization, the study of firms in markets. Industrial organization focuses on firm behavior in imperfectly competitive markets, which appear to be far more common than the perfectly competitive markets that were the focus of your basic microeconomics course."
14.64 Labor Economics and Public Policy | Economics "microeconomic theory and empirical analysis. We are especially interested in the link between research and public policy."
Environmental Justice Law and Policy "This seminar introduces students to basic principles of environmental justice and presents frameworks for analyzing and addressing inequalities in the distribution of environmental benefits and burdens from the perspectives of social science, public policy, and law."
Ethics and Public Policy "This course will provide the student with an overview of the role that ethical, cultural, religious, and moral principles play in public policy. "
United States Foreign Policy "This is a free online course offered by the Saylor Foundation. 'What is the best way to respond to global nuclear proliferation? Under what circumstances should American soldiers be sent to war? How should U.S. policymakers navigate a global economy? Will a global energy crisis precipitate a third world war? How does history inform contemporary U.S. foreign policymakers, and what issues will challenge future leaders? Such questions can seem beyond the scope of an individual, but they are questions that foreign policy decision makers in the United States must confront."

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Select Open Educational Books for Urban Policy

Deliberative Public Engagement with Science

Analytic Techniques for Public Management and Policy

Economy, Society and Public Policy

Financial Strategy for Public Managers

Inquiry of the Public Sort

An Introduction to U.S. Public Policy: Theory and Practice

Playing the Policy Game: Basic Knowledge and Skills for Effective Policy Process Participation

Public Policy: Origins, Practice, and Analysis

Quantitative Research Methods for Political Science, Public Policy and Public Administration

Quantitative Research Methods for Political Science, Public Policy and Public Administration for Undergraduates: 1st Edition With Applications in Excel

Additional Open Educational Resources for Urban Policy

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