Understanding Public Policy

This podcast is for Wayne State College students taking POS 430 Public Policy. Episodes being by taking listeners through the basics of public policy, including structures like federalism, models of decision-making, and policymaking steps including implementation and evaluation. The second half of this course works through a wide range of topic areas, including criminal justice, national defense, economic, educational, emergency management, energy, environment, health, social security, social values, tax, and welfare policy.

Understanding Public Policy is a education podcast hosted by Jennifer Miller, with 17 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Jennifer Miller hosts Understanding Public Policy, a education show with 17 episodes published.

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  Episode #17

  Putting Out Fires... Literally and Figuratively

  Jul 28, 20251h 2mS1

  <p>Hi all, and welcome to our last episode on the course material! In this podcast, we will cover disaster and emergency management with a focus on the emergency management approach, data on different natural disasters, and review of a whole host of challenges that we can and do experience when we handle a disaster or emergency (things like fragmentation, the issue-attention cycle, and the Samaritan's dilemma). As you listen to the episode and work through the slides, I'd like for you to think about the ways we approach natural disasters (like floods or hurricanes) and how we approach man-made...

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  Episode #16

  Safety and Security Pt 2

  Jul 25, 202557 minS1

  <p>Howdy all, I hope you are doing well and gearing up for the last days and weeks of this class! Today's episode is all about criminal justice, or as I like to think of it the system of order we have for inside our borders. When it comes to criminal justice, we have lots of problems (hate crimes, recidivism, etc.) but we also have some fundamental misunderstandings (particularly about crime rates). In this episode we'll start by reviewing data on different criminal justice problems as well as how we know what we know (with sources like the UCR and...

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  Episode #15

  Safety and Security Part 1

  Jul 21, 20251h 4mS1

  <p>Hi all, and welcome to one of our last 3 episodes on American Public Policy! In this episode we are going to dive into the topic of national defense/security policy. What we are really considering here is how to keep the country safe and secure from threats that exist outside of our borders--so how do we engage in international relations in order to ensure peace (or at least the successful completion of war). We have some big-picture theories on this, namely realism and liberalism that can offer some guidance. This episode will review all of these topics and a...

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  Episode #14

  Pollution and Power Baby!

  Jul 14, 20251 hourS1

  <p>Hi all, and welcome back to one of our last podcast episodes! We only have a few more left to go, and in this episode we'll be covering environmental and energy policy. It seems to me that with both of these topics, we don't do too much until we run into big problems (aka externalities like pollution or extremely high bills for electricity or gasoline). Our policies in these arenas seem to come after we tend to experience disasters... and in those situations we often also encounter problems with coming up with an answer that everyone can work on...

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  Episode #13

  "Let's Vote, and Then We'll Fight"... or Vice Versa

  Jul 9, 202550 minS1

  <p>Howdy all, welcome to yet another episode on US public policy! Today's episode is going to walk directly into that fiery pathway known as social values policy. These are all the topics that engage and enrage: abortion, rights for different groups (specifically LGBTQ+ and transgender individuals and groups), the line we draw between religion and government (e.g. church and state separation), and the legalization movements we've seen in relation to marijuana and to a lesser extent psilocybin (aka, mushrooms). A large portion of this episode will be devoted to updating on the status of laws on these topics...

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