Analysis of governmental institutions and decision-making processes in New Jersey state government; with particular emphasis on the role of the bureaucracy. Examination of legislative-executive interaction, policy-making in departments and agencies, current issues and controversies.

Students will learn about theoretical foundations as well as policy and administrative issues associated with inter-governmental relations. This course covers the historical background of American federalism, empirical cases in intergovernmental cooperation and conflicts, public policymaking and implementation in intergovernmental relations, fiscal relations between government bodies, multi-faceted challenges in intergovernmental relations, comparative framework, and future prospects of intergovernmental relations.

The objective of this course is to provide a graduate-level foundation and overview of macroeconomics and fiscal policies as they relate to public policy and fiscal management in public administration, policy analysis, health planning, public safety, and non-profit management.

This course covers an understanding of how public, private, and non-profit organizations manage their human resources. Students learn skills and competencies that managers need to develop.

This course covers an understanding of public, private, and non-profit organizations as interactive systems; individual and group dynamics; organizational, cultural and design; major theories of organization, leadership and management; management by objectives. Students learn skills and competencies that managers need to develop.

In this course, we will dive deeply into public opinion. Our goal is to understand why people hold their political preferences, social identities, and, sometimes, uncivil attitudes toward those who they disagree with. As we get a grasp on the literature, we will move on to practical techniques–developing a survey, running it with a sample of American voters, and analyzing the results. In that process, students will be able to come up with their own questions and investigate whether their own theories explain political polarization in the United States.

In this introductory course of Comparative Politics, students will learn how domestic politics, political institutions (e.g., presidentialism vs. parliamentarism), and political behavior (e.g., identity and culture) operate and interact in different countries. Consider the cases of Hungary and Venezuela. While the two countries have followed completely different historical paths and are governed by parties from opposite ideological views, both have seen the profuse erosion of their democracy in the recent years. Why is it the case? In this course, students will learn how to recognize and interpret political events around the world (as the ones from Venezuela and Hungary) based on the relevant and widely used theories of the field.

During the Fall of 2019, I was the teaching assistant of Prof. Laura Paler. I taught weekly recitations to 100 students (split into four 25-student groups).