>Date: Fri, 29 Dec 1995 09:26:02 -0800 (PST)
>Subject: scu/pub policy/syllabus sources
>To: LIBPROFS

Professors of Liberty:
Thank you for helpful earlier comments. This is my virtually final draft.
(Course starts Jan. 2.) Nonetheless I still seek suggestions--if I cannot
squeeze them in this year, I'll consider them another time I teach the
course.--Bill Evers

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Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, Calif.
Political Science 167
Public Policy (Winter 1996)
Prof. Williamson Evers

REQUIRED TEXTBOOKS
William C. Mitchell & Randy T. Simmons, Beyond Politics
Thomas B. Dye, Understanding Public Policy

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                              COURSE OUTLINE


1. Introduction

2. Government Policy, Analytic Approaches, and Varieties of Ideology
Dye, chaps. 1-2.
Jack E. Holmes, Michael J. Engelhardt, & Robert E. Elder, Jr., American
Government: Essentials & Perspectives, 2nd ed. (1994), pp. 3-26.

3. Economic Problems & Political Solutions
Mitchell & Simmons, chaps. 1-2.

4. How Government Operates
Mitchell & Simmons, chaps. 3-4.

5. Public Goods, Transfer-Seeking, and Transfers
Mitchell & Simmons, chaps. 5-7.

6. Consumer Protection, Redistribution, and the Business Cycle
Mitchell & Simmons, chaps. 8, 10-11.

7. Regulatory and Constitutional Reform
Mitchell & Simmons, chaps. 12-13.
Tibor R. Machan & Alan Reynolds, "Justice, Ethics, and Government
Regulations," New York Times, July 8, 1978.

8. Time Preferences and Public Policy I
T. Alexander Smith, Time & Public Policy (1988), chaps. 2-3.

9. Time Preferences and Public Policy II
Edward C. Banfield, The Unheavenly City Revisited (1974), chap. 3.

10. Race, Sex, and Poverty I
Dye, chaps. 3, 5.

11. Poverty II
Charles Murray, "The Constraints on Helping" [excerpts from Losing Ground
(1984)], in William F. Buckley, Jr., and Charles R. Kesler, eds., Keeping
the Tablets.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Family and Nation (1986), pp. 124-42.
Frances Fox Piven, "The Great Society as Political Strategy," in Piven &
Richard A. Cloward, The Politics of Turmoil (1974), pp. 271-83.

12.

13. The Human Environment
Dye, chap. 7.
Mitchell & Simmons, chap. 9.

14. Education I
Dye, chap. 6.
John Dewey, Democracy and Education (1916), chap. 7.
Paul E. Peterson, "The New Politics of Choice," in Diane Ravitch and Maris
A. Vinovskis, eds., Learning from the Past (1995), pp. 220-22.

15. Education II
John Chubb & Terry Moe, Politics, Markets, and America's Schools (1990),
chaps. 1-2.

16. Drugs
James Ostrowski, "Answering the Critics of Drug Legalization," in Melvyn B.
Krauss and Edward P. Lazear, eds., Searching for Alternatives (1991).
James Q. Wilson, "Against the Legalization of Drugs," Commentary, February
1990.

17. Crime I
Dye, chap. 4.
Williamson M. Evers, "Victims' Rights, Restitution, and Retribution,"
Independent Policy Reports ser., Independent Institute, Oakland, Calif.,
1994.

18. Crime II
Banfield, Unheavenly City Revisited, chap. 8.
Gerald P. O'Driscoll, Jr., "Professor Banfield on Time Horizon: What Has He
Taught Us About Crime?" in Randy E. Barnett and John Hagel III, eds.,
Assessing the Criminal (1977).

19. Policymaking and Evaluation
Dye, chaps. 13-14.

20.  Designing Civil Society; Prospects for the Future
Dan Coates, "Can Congress Revive Civil Society," Policy Review, Jan.-Feb.
1996, with responses by Gertrude Himmelfarb, Don Eberly, & David Boaz.
Banfield, Unheavenly City Revisited, chaps. 11-12.

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>Date: Wed, 06 Dec 1995 14:13:25 -0800 (PST)
>Subject: comments, suggestions welcome

Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, Calif.
Political Science 167
Public Policy (Winter 1996)
Prof. Williamson Evers

REQUIRED TEXTBOOKS
William C. Mitchell & Randy T. Simmons, Beyond Politics
Thomas B. Dye, Understanding Public Policy

========================================================================

                              COURSE OUTLINE


1. Introduction

2.
Jack E. Holmes, Michael J. Engelhardt, & Robert E. Elder, Jr., American
Government: Essentials & Perspectives, 2nd ed., pp. 3-26 (political
spectrum).
Dye, chaps. 1-2

3.
Mitchell & Simmons, chaps. 1-2

4.
Mitchell & Simmons, chaps. 3-4

5.
Mitchell & Simmons, chaps. 5-7

6.
Mitchell & Simmons, chaps. 8, 10-11

7.
Mitchell & Simmons, chaps. 12-13

8.
T. Alexander Smith, Time & Public Policy (1988), chaps. 2-3

9.
Edward C. Banfield, The Unheavenly City Revisited (1974), chap. 3

10.
Dye, chaps. 3-4

11.
Dye, chaps. 5-6

12.

13.
Dye, chap. 7
Mitchell & Simmons, chap. 9

14.
Dye, chaps. 9, 11

15.
Dye, chaps. 13-14

16. Education
John Chubb & Terry Moe, Politics, Markets, and America's Schools (1990),
chaps. 1-2

17. Poverty, Charles Murray, "The Constraints on Helping" [excerpts from Losing Ground
(1984)], in William F. Buckley, Jr., and Charles R. Kesler, eds., Keeping
the Tablets.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Family and Nation (1986), pp. 124-42.

18. Drugs
James Ostrowski, "Answering the Critics of Drug Legalization," in Melvyn B.
Krauss and Edward P. Lazear, eds., Searching for Alternatives.
James Q. Wilson, "Against the Legalization of Drugs," Commentary, February
1990.

19. Crime
Williamson M. Evers, "Victims' Rights, Restitution, and Retribution,"
Independent Policy Reports ser., Independent Institute, Oakland, Calif.,
1994.
Gerald P. O'Driscoll, Jr., "Professor Banfield on Time Horizon: What Has He
Taught Us About Crime?" in Randy E. Barnett and John Hagel III, eds.,
Assessing the Criminal (1977).

20.
Banfield, Unheavenly City Revisited, chaps. 11-12