Special Topic: Governance, Corruption, and Reform Fall 2019 Special Topic: Governance,…

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Bersch This course explores the relationship between government, corruption, and reform, and under what conditions bureaucracies work either as either facilitators of or impediments to reform. This course provides a mix of classroom instruction with hands-on experiential learning, drawing on the instructor’s work with the Bureaucracy Lab at the World Bank and the Stanford Governance Project. Students will develop a Governance/Policy Lab at Davison, work with an external partner on developing a project, and complete a final research paper based on data from the Governance Project. Prerequisites & Notes Instructor permission required.