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L1Introduction to Technology and PolicyProf. Weigel

Lecture Slides (PDF)

Amazon logo Moidel, Steve. "The Six Major Reading Problems," and "Double Your Reading Speed in an Hour." Chapters 3 and 4 in Speed Reading for Business. 2nd ed. Hauppauge, NY: Barrons, 1998. ISBN: 0764104012.

L2The Heart of Policy Arguments - Equity, Efficiency, Liberty, SecurityProf. Weigel

Amazon logo Stone, Deborah. Policy Paradox: The Art of Political Decision Making. New York, NY: W. W. Norton, 2001, chapters 1-5. ISBN: 0393976254.

Press releases: "September 11th Compensation Fund Regulations Announced," and "Spitzer Criticizes DOJ Regulations on September 11th Victim Compensation Fund." (PDF)

Hadfield, Gillian K. "The September 11th Victim Compensation Fund: 'An Unprecedented Experiment in American Democracy'." University of Southern California. University of Southern California Legal Studies Working Paper Series. Working Paper 3, May 2005. (Focus on sections I-III.)

L3Portraying Policy Problems - The Art of Framing in Many LanguagesProf. Weigel

Lecture Slides (PDF)

Stone, Deborah. Policy Paradox: The Art of Political Decision Making. Chapters 6-10.

Wilber, Del Quentin. "Newly Banned Items Often Fly Past Airport Screeners." Washington Post, September 13, 2006.

R1Victim's Compensation Fund Case Study
L4Policy Strategy and InstrumentsProf. Weigel

Lecture Slides (PDF)

Stone, Deborah. Policy Paradox: The Art of Political Decision Making. Chapters 11-15.

L5Current Issues in Technology and Policy: Environmental Policy Challenges IGuest - Prof. Dave Marks

Pacala, S., and R. Socolow. "Stabilization Wedges: Solving the Climate Problem For The Next 50 Years with Current Technologies." Science 305, no. 5686 (August 13, 2004): 968 - 972.

Socolow, R., R. Hotinski, J. Greenblatt, and S. Pacala. "Solving the Climate Problem: Technologies for Curbing CO2 Emissions." Environment 46, no. 10 (2004): 8-19.

Optional (but highly useful): The entire issue of Scientific American, September 2006.

R2Discussion of Stone Through the News: Equity and Efficiency
L6Class Projects Update: Teams, Project Organization, and NRC ReportsProf. Weigel

Review/skim at least three different reports of your choice on different topics from the NRC Web site.

R3Discussion of Stone Through the News: Security and Liberty
L7Current Issues in Technology and Policy: Environmental Policy Challenges IIGuest - Prof. Dave Marks
L8Government Policy and Technology I - History in the U.S.Guest - Prof. David Mindell

Amazon logo Dupree, A. Hunter. Science and the Federal Government. Introduction and chapter 14, Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986. ISBN: 0801833817.

Amazon logo Brooks, Harvey. "The Evolution of U.S. Science Policy." In Technology, R&D, and the Economy. Edited by B. Smith and C. Barfield. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 1995. ISBN: 0815779852.

Bush, Vannevar. "Science--The Endless Frontier." Report to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, July 1945.

R4Case Study - London Congestion Pricing
L9Government Policy and Technology II - InternationalProf. Weigel

Amazon logo Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (CSTB), National Research Council. "The Organization of Federal Support, A Historical Review." Chapter 4 in Funding a Revolution: Government Support for Computing Research. Washington, DC: National Academies Press, 1999. ISBN: 0309062780.

Amazon logo Nelson, Richard, ed. National Innovation Systems. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1993. ISBN: 0195076176.

R5Case Study - KIDSNET
L10Challenger Case StudyGuest - Prof. Daniel Hastings

The Challenger Disaster (PDF) (Courtesy of Prof. Daniel Hastings. Used with permission.)

Amazon logo Vaughan, D. The Challenger Launch Decision. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1997, chapters 1, 2, and 8. ISBN: 0226851761.

Amazon logo Tufte, Edward. Visual and Statistical Thinking: Displays of Evidence for Making Decisions. Cheshire, CT: Graphics Press, 1997. ISBN: 0961392134.

L11Systems Thinking: Origins and Why It Matters To PolicyProf. Roos

Lecture Slides (PDF)

Amazon logo Cronon, William. "Pricing the Future: Grain." In Nature's Metropolis. New York, NY: W. W. Norton & Co, Inc, 1992. ISBN: 0393308731.

Amazon logo Hughes, Thomas P. Networks of Power: Electrification in Western Society, 1880-1930. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975, chapter 1. ISBN: 0801846145.



Optional


Amazon logo Jardini, D. R. "Out of the Blue Yonder: The Transfer of Systems Thinking from the Pentagon to the Great Society, 1961-1965." In Systems, Experts, and Computers: The Systems Approach in Management and Engineering, World War II and After. Edited by A. C. Hughes and T. P. Hughes. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2000. ISBN: 0262082853.

Amazon logo Hughes, Thomas P. Rescuing Prometheus. New York, NY: Knopf, 2000, chapter 6. ISBN: 0679739386.

Rhodes, Donna, and Daniel Hastings. "The Case for Evolving Systems Engineering as a Field within Engineering Systems." Paper presented at MIT Engineering Systems Symposium, March 2004. (PDF)#

R6Understanding Systems Thinking
L12Policy Analysis IProf. Weigel

Lecture Slides (PDF)

Amazon logo Starling, Grover. Strategies for Policy Making. Pacific Grove, CA: Brooks/Cole, 1988, chapters 1, 7, and 8. ISBN: 0534108466.

Amazon logo Patton, Carl V., and David S. Sawicki. Basic Methods of Policy Analysis and Planning. East Rutherford, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1993, pp. 168-176. ISBN: 013060948X.

L13Globalization Impacts: Government - Industry InteractionsGuest - Prof. Suzanne BergerAmazon logo Berger, Suzanne. How We Compete. New York, NY: Doubleday, 2005, parts one and two. ISBN: 0385513593.
L14Policy Analysis IIProf. Weigel

Lecture Slides (PDF)

Amazon logo Starling, Grover. Strategies for Policy Making. Pacific Grove, CA: Brooks/Cole, 1988, chapter 9. ISBN: 0534108466.

Amazon logo Fischer, Frank. Reframing Public Policy. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2003, chapter 9. ISBN: 019924264X.

Amazon logo Mazmanian, D. A., and P. A. Sabatier. Implementation and Public Policy. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, Inc, 1989, chapter 2. ISBN: 0819175269.



Optional


Amazon logo Averch, Harvey. Private Markets and Public Intervention. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1990, chapters 2 and 3. ISBN: 082293647X.

L15Globalization Impacts: Supply ChainsGuest - Prof. Yoshi SheffiAmazon logo Sheffi, Yoshi. The Resilient Enterprise. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2005, chapters 1-5. ISBN: 0262195372.
L16Globalization Impacts: Globalization and the Automotive SectorProf. Roos

Lecture Slides (PDF)

Amazon logo Womack, J. P., D. T. Jones, and D. Roos. The Machine That Changed The World: The Story of Lean Production. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 2007, chapters 1-4. ISBN: 0743299795.

L17Class Projects UpdateAllLecture Slides (PDF)
L18Policy Analysis IIIProf. Weigel

Heywood, J. B. Testimony presented at U.S. House of Representatives' Science Committee, Subcommittees on Energy and Research joint hearing on "Fueling the Future: On the Road to the Hydrogen Economy," Wednesday, July 20, 2005. (PDF)

Heywood, J. B., and Malcolm A. Weiss. "New Vehicle Technologies: How Soon Can They Make a Difference?" MIT Laboratory for Energy and the Environment, March 2005. (PDF)#

———. "A Multipronged Approach to Curbing Gasoline Use." MIT Laboratory for Energy and the Environment, June 2004. (PDF)#

Weiss, Malcom A., and Andreas Schafer. "Vehicles and Fuels for 2020: Assessing the Hydrogen Fuel-Cell Vehicle." MIT Laboratory for Energy and the Environment, March 2003. (PDF)#

L19Focus Area: Policy Perspectives on TransportationGuest - Bob Skinner

Lecture Slides (PDF)

Transportation Research Board. "Future Flight: A Review of the Small Aircraft Transportation System Concept." TRB Special Report 263, 2002. (PDF - 2.6 MB)#

———. "Does the Built Environment Influence Physical Activity? Examining the Evidence." TRB Special Report 282, 2005. (PDF - 1.5 MB)#

———. The Fuel Tax and Alternatives for Transportation Funding. TRB Special Report 285, 2006. (PDF - 1.1 MB)#

Students should read the executive summaries of each of the TRB reports and browse through the bodies of the report to get a sense of how issues were framed by the authoring committees and the kinds of evidence and analysis considered.

L20Focus Area: The Big Dig - Policy Implications and LessonsGuest - Fred SalvucciAmazon logo Altshuler, A. A., and D. E. Luberoff. "The New Politics of Highways." In Mega-Projects: The Changing Politics of Urban Public Investment. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2003. ISBN: 0815701292.
L21No Class; Project Work Time
L22Current Issues in Technology and Policy: IT and PrivacyGuest - Frank Field

Kaplan, Carl S. "Kafkaesque? Big Brother? Finding the Right Literary Metaphor for Net Privacy." The New York Times, February 2, 2001.

Liptak, Adam. "Expunged Criminal Records Live to Tell Tales." The New York Times, October 17, 2006.

Black, Jason, Kieran Downes, Frank Field, Aleksandra Mozdzanowska, and Katherine Steel. "The Metaphors of Emerging Technologies: Unpacking the disconnects between the 'what' and the 'how' in the world of 'online shopping'." Conference paper preprint, 9th International Conference on Technology Policy and Innovation, Santorini, Greece, June 2006.



Supplements


Turow, Joseph. "Have They Got A Deal For You: It's Suspiciously Cozy in the Cybermarket." The Washington Post, June 19, 2005, p. B01.

———. "Americans and Online Privacy: The System Is Broken." Annenberg Public Policy Center, University of Pennsylvania, June 2003. (PDF)#

O'Harrow, Robert, Jr. "In Age of Security, Firm Mines Wealth Of Personal Data." The Washington Post, January 20, 2005, p. A01. (Off-topic, but it may be of interest; O'Harrow's award-winning series of articles and supporting information is hosted at the Washington Post's site: "The High Price of Homeland Security").

Turow, Joseph, Lauren Feldman, and Kimberly Meltzer. "Open To Exploitation: American Shoppers Online and Offline." Annenberg Public Policy Center, University of Pennsylvania, June 2005. (PDF - 2.6 MB)#

L23Current Issues in Technology and Policy: The Role of Standards In Technology And PolicyGuest - Dr. William Jeffrey, Director, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)Amazon logo Starling, Grover. Strategies for Policy Making. Pacific Grove, CA: Brooks/Cole, 1988, chapters 1 and 2. ISBN: 0534108466.
L24Final Project PresentationsStudents
L25Final Project Presentations (cont.)Students
L26Policy Principles: Discussion and ReflectionProf. Weigel
L27Conclusion and Wrap-upAll

 








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