This undergraduate-level course explores how we can make policy recommendations using data. The overall goal of this course is to introduce a basic framework for policy evaluation – what we call design-based causal inference – essentially, how we can use statistical methods to answer research questions that concern the impact of some cause on certain policy outcomes.[…]
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POLI 273. Causal Inference
This is the third graduate-level course in the quantitative political methodology sequence at the Political Science Department at UCSD. The goal of course is to provide a survey of most commonly used empirical tools for political science and public policy research. Our focus is design-based causal inference, that is, to use statistical methods to answer[…]
POLI 130B. Politics in the People’s Republic of China
This course provides an overview of China’s recent history and its political system. We will begin with a historical overview of China’s political development since the late Qing. The remainder of the course will examine the institutional features of the Chinese political system and the key challenges facing the CCP leadership, such as economic reforms,[…]