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Policy Analysis & Regulation Department

The Policy Analysis & Regulation Department trains students to critically evaluate energy and environmental policy, regulation, and governance frameworks and to design workable alternatives. Working through real policy cases such as carbon pricing, subsidy reform, and international climate agreements, students master regulatory-impact-analysis methodology, graduating having drafted evidence-based policy recommendations of their own and taken a seat in regulatory-design discussions for sustainable resource management.

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Field-based Curriculum · 15

This department's curriculum is built directly on the GeoVerse Lab research fields its professors hold — click a field to see how it is taught.

Cap-and-Trade & Emissions Trading Design
Cap-and-Trade & Emissions Trading Design
From Dales's conception of tradable permits, students analyse cap-and-trade desi…
John H. Dales
Regulatory Impact Assessment & the Policy Analysis Discipline
Regulatory Impact Assessment & the Policy Analysis Discipline
Students learn and perform regulatory impact assessment — analysing costs, benef…
Aaron Wildavsky
International Climate Agreements & Global Environmental Governance
International Climate Agreements & Global Environmental Governance
Students analyse how sovereign states build cooperation over a shared atmosphere…
Barbara Ward
Technological Risk Regulation & Environmental Agency Design
Technological Risk Regulation & Environmental Agency Design
From Ruckelshaus's EPA experience, students learn the institutions and agency de…
William D. Ruckelshaus
Distributive Justice & Just Transition Economics
Distributive Justice & Just Transition Economics
In Meade's tradition, students address how the gains and losses of decarbonisati…
James Meade
Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis
Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis
Students learn methods for choosing and ranking when incommensurable criteria co…
Thomas L. Saaty
Agent-Based Modeling & Strategic Interaction in Policy
Agent-Based Modeling & Strategic Interaction in Policy
Students model how aggregate patterns emerge from the interaction of agents with…
Thomas Schelling
Policy Sciences & Stakeholder Analysis Foundations
Policy Sciences & Stakeholder Analysis Foundations
Using the policy-science framework Lasswell founded, students analyse the policy…
Harold Lasswell
Governance of the Commons & Institutional Analysis
Governance of the Commons & Institutional Analysis
Grounded in Ostrom's work, students analyse the conditions for self-governance o…
Elinor Ostrom
Computer-Mediated Delphi & Structured Policy Consultation
Computer-Mediated Delphi & Structured Policy Consultation
Following Turoff's policy Delphi design, students learn to design and run struct…
Murray Turoff
Cost-Effectiveness Analysis in Public Expenditure
Cost-Effectiveness Analysis in Public Expenditure
Students learn cost-effectiveness analysis — comparing alternatives as cost per …
Roland McKean
Energy Subsidy Reform & Market Liberalization Policy
Energy Subsidy Reform & Market Liberalization Policy
In MacAvoy's empirical tradition, students learn the economics and politics of e…
Paul MacAvoy
Environmental Fiscal Policy & Carbon Tax Design
Environmental Fiscal Policy & Carbon Tax Design
Grounded in Sandmo's optimal taxation with externalities, students analyse the t…
Agnar Sandmo
Public Choice, Regulatory Capture & the Economics of Regulation
Public Choice, Regulatory Capture & the Economics of Regulation
From Stigler's capture theory, students learn to analyse regulation as an object…
George Stigler
International Negotiation & Treaty Design
International Negotiation & Treaty Design
In Iklé's tradition of negotiation analysis, students learn the structure of une…
Fred Charles Iklé