LLB453 Evaluating Public Policy
This course is about feedback in public policy. How do we know a program, policy, or some intervention or “treatment”, is working or has worked? What does the data we have mean. In this course, we will be learning the tools that a policymaker must have in order to be sure that well-intentioned, well-executed policies do not, nonetheless. misfire in terms of policy objectives. It is also a critical set of tools for would-be policy advocates, researchers, and politicians
The course aims to equip students to:
- Produce high quality empirical research
- Become critical in their consumption of empirical research
- Make reasonable causal and statistical inferences from data
- Be able to determine the costs, benefits, and likely effectiveness of any proposed or implemented public policy
- Evaluate the political and functional consequences of public policy legislation once it is enacted
- Theoretical approaches to Policy Evaluation
- Tools for policy evaluation
- Logical Framework
- SWOC Analysis
- Preventing the Misuse of Evaluation & Lesson-Drawing in Public Policy
Offered: Semester Two
Course Type: Seminar, Lecture, Experiential