Analyzing Complex Problems

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This course demonstrates Nobel laureate Elinor Ostrom's Institutional Analysis and Development (IAD) framework. The IAD framework, an analytical strategy from the field of public policy, is especially useful in analyzing the complex problems that often occur within and between teams of people engaged in meaningful work. Students will learn to apply the framework to analyze complex problems within organizations of their own choosing and to design and appraise potential solutions to these problems based on the evidence of their studies. In this way, it is an ideal course for scholar-practitioners interested in creating evidence-based solutions at the applied level.