https://at-ceu.studyguide.timeedit.net/modules/UGST4158?type=COREMost global and domestic problems and solutions - conflict, human rights, environmental degradation, corruption, poverty, governance, diversity, market failures - revolve around public policymaking. This course examines how policies with a 'public' dimension are made, implemented, and evaluated. What is public policy? Who are the main actors involved in its design and implementation? How complex is the policymaking universe? Where do policy ideas come from? What is the policy cycle? How do we know if policies work or fail? Why do suboptimal rules persist? How is compliance with laws and regulations established and assessed? What is policy evaluation and what are the main methods used in practice to understand if the designed policy achieved its intended goals or not? The class will meet twice a week. The first session is dedicated to a lecture based on the core readings. During the second (lab) session, students will work in teams on case studies and simulations from different geographical contexts and covering diverse policy areas (health, environment, education, poverty alleviation, migration, etc.) to illustrate the main theoretical and practical implications of the previous session. The case study labs are customized for two groups (drawing primarily on quantitative or qualitative evidence). This course has a practical component and introduces an area that students may later pursue academically or as a professional career in governments, international organizations, political parties, NGOs, media or think tanks.