PAI680.6 Frontier in Public Policy & Practice (Tsinghua U – grad)

Taught in English. The objective of the course is to provide practical concepts and background to analyze public policy in the context of country economic and social development. The course aims to equip students with knowledge and skills needed to examine, formulate and implement government policies across sectors. In addition, drawing lessons from the recent global financial crisis and economic slowdown, the course will explore the efficacy of public policy response and policy paradigm shifts for the future. The course introduces students to a wide range of issues of public policy and development. For each issue, the course addresses two main questions: How best to define the appropriate objectives for public policy? What makes public policy effective in achieving its objectives? The course builds on the existing body of public policy research and practice and involves discussions with leading policy thinkers as the visiting speakers in class. Specifically, it draws on recent studies by the World Bank and Chinese as well as foreign scholars. The course emphasizes conceptual and synthesizing studies, but also presents empirical and case studies from China and other countries.

Class taught by Tsinghua’s School of Public Policy & Management and may not be available every semester. Tsinghua’s exam schedule for this course may require students to stay beyond the regular SU Beijing program end date.

Taught in English. This course will begin by providing students with an account of the major theoretical traditions which seek to interpret and explain the international political economy. These can be divided into mainstream theories as realism and liberalism, and the radical theories in the Marxist tradition such as Marxism, dependency, world systems and neo-Gramscianism. It then introduces the debate about globalization and proceeds to explore different aspects of the contemporary international political economy — trade, finance, production, global governance, international development, etc. It aims to provide an understanding of developments and issues in the international political economy. (TU #805902013)

Class taught by Tsinghua’s School of Humanities & Social Sciences and may not be available every semester. Tsinghua’s exam schedule for this course may require students to stay beyond the regular SU Beijing program end date.

Taught in English. This course is designed to help graduate students of public administration obtain a clear understanding of social policies currently implemented in China. The first section is an introduction to social policy as a field of study and setting up a framework for understanding. The second section covers major domains of social policy in China. The third section is devoted to a discussion of policy development processes at different levels of the government and resource allocation for policy implementation. The fourth section concludes the course with attempts to analyze some welfare programs as examples of policy analysis.

Class taught by Tsinghua’s School of Humanities & Social Sciences and may not be available every semester. Tsinghua’s exam schedule for this course may require students to stay beyond the regular SU Beijing program end date.

Taught in English. This course introduces the issues of “governance and development” covered by World Development Report 2017: Governance and the Law. It also goes beyond the WDR 2017 by bringing in insights from the literature on “experimental governance” and institutional political economy, as well as the recent development of global value chains and their governance. (TU #80590623)

Class taught by Tsinghua’s School of Public Policy & Management and may not be available every semester. Tsinghua’s exam schedule for this course may require students to stay beyond the regular SU Beijing program end date.

Taught in English. This course evaluates China’s development in terms of economic growth and scientific and technological advances. It then examines the impact of these developments on China and the world. (TU #80590833)

Class taught by Tsinghua’s School of Humanities & Social Sciences and may not be available every semester. Tsinghua’s exam schedule for this course may require students to stay beyond the regular SU Beijing program end-date.

Taught in English. This course introduces the concepts and theories used to analyze the complicated political world and examines the utility of the comparative approach to politics. It will also focus on the relationship between politics and development and provide a foundation for the study of Chinese politics.

Class taught by Tsinghua’s School of Humanities & Social Sciences and may not be available every semester. Tsinghua’s exam schedule for this course may require students to stay beyond the regular SU Beijing program end-date.