Models of Governance

Module 1: What do we study?
Class 01 - Introduction: causes and effects in public policy.
Class 02 - Frameworks: models of governance, power arenas, and action situations.
Class 03 - Policy effectiveness: policy instruments and individual behavior
Class 04 - Policy effectiveness: decision-making and account-giving rules.
Class 05 - Test 1: structured debate.

Module 2: How do we study it?
Class 06 - Explanation as an exercise in classical logic: from syllogisms to generative mechanisms.
Class 07 -- Probing causation: from Mill's canons to QCA and the Quine McCluskey's minimizations.
Class 08 - From causal properties to explanatory conditions - measures and their calibration.
Class 09 - Necessity and sufficiency with Boolean algebra - parameters of fit of individual conditions.
Class 10 - Truth table analysis, easy and hard counterfactuals, solutions and their representation.
Class 11 - Test 2:

Module 3: How is it actually done?
Class 12 - Defining the model: the INUS causes of corruption
Class 13 - Constructing the explanatory conditions, and assessing their explanatory power.
Class 14 - Constructing and analyzing the truth table.
Class 15 - Standard Analysis, solution plots, and discussion.

Module 4: Trying it
Class 16 and 17 - Presentation and discussion of replication studies
Class 18 through 20 - Bring your laptop: writing R functions under guidance