PBPL 83.01 Persuasion and the Policy Process

This class examines how people form policy preferences and the process by which those preferences do—or do not—get translated into public policies in the United States. The course will examine three aspects of this process:  elite rhetorical strategy, the media routines that generate coverage of policy debates, and mass opinion.  We will assess the way political elites, the media mass, and ordinary people interact to create policies that can be either intelligent or pathological.

Instructor

Jerit

Cross Listed Courses

GOVT 83.28

Degree Requirement Attributes

Dist:SOC

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Offered

• Winter