Public Policy in the Global Age 

Prof. Sharon Gilad

This MA seminar will provide students with tools to analyze the factors that shape processes of public policy inertia and change in the global age. During the first part of the seminar, we will examine patterns of policy stability and change, inter alia in the context of international policy diffusion. Thereafter, in the second part of the seminar, we will assess how global factors, such as international organizations, and local factors, such as media and social movements, interact in spurring changes in local policy agendas. Finally, in the third part of the seminar, we will examine how institutional structures, such as existing laws, constrain policy change, and the role of agents of change in overcoming such constraints. 

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