PPOL-538 FOUNDATIONS, THINK TANKS & THE POLITICS OF IDEAS

PPOL-538 FOUNDATIONS, THINK TANKS & THE POLITICS OF IDEAS

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Philanthropic foundations have played a significant role in public policymaking in the United States since early in the Twentieth Century. This course examines the role of organized private philanthropy in our public life. Among other things, it explores the work of the Rockefeller and Rosenwald philanthropies in public health and the education of African-Americans in the South during the first decades of the Twentieth Century; the international programs of the Ford, Kellogg, Carnegie, and Rockefeller foundations in the years of reconstruction after World War II; and the institution-building of conservative foundations in 1970s and 1980s which propelled the modern conservative moment. The course will ask why the United States has developed so robust a tradition of private philanthropy, how foundations engage with the policy process, what limits there are and ought to be on their activities, and what, for better and for worse, they have accomplished.

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: None

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• 2006-2007

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