Making Government Work in Hard Places

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24 h
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  • 8 Sequences
  • Advanced Level

Course details

Syllabus

  • A conceptual vocabulary to help identify and analyze obstacles to building better government
  • A solutions tool-kit for solving several common yet difficult problems
  • Familiarity with some important contemporary reform leaders, their work, and their ideas
  • An introduction to some basic skills, including streamlining a process, project-management, and strategy development

Prerequisite

None

Instructors

Jennifer Widner
Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Director of Innovations for Successful Societies
Princeton University

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Princeton University, also known as Princeton, is a private American university located in the town of Princeton, New Jersey, in the United States. Founded in 1746, it is the fourth oldest institution of higher education in the United States.

Ranked among the top universities in the world in most international rankings, it enjoys great prestige1. It is a member of the Ivy League, where it has a historic rivalry with Harvard University and Yale University2.

It has produced 65 Nobel Prize winners, 15 Fields Medals, 21 National Medals of Science, 11 National Humanities Medals, 3 US Presidents and 12 US Supreme Court Justices.

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