This is a collection of papers from a Public Policy Short Course taught by John in 1998. The cases studied in this one-week short course include situations such as the following: The Bay of Pigs, the Cuban Missile Crisis, nuclear energy in the post-World War II era, automobile industry policy in the post-World War II era, educational program development; strategic resource allocation policy for developing the (Mexican) State of Guanajuato in the first decade of the new century, U.S. defense acquisition policy, technology policy for small-industry development in Ghana, and government software development policy. Offered to GMU students as a one degree credit course, and also available to outsiders upon payment of $1,000 course fee. GMU faculty were invited to attend at no charge and to participate in discussions. Students taking the course for credit must submit an "original paper presenting a case study in policy development and a discussion of how the case study relates to what was learned in the short course"

The formal title of the Short Course was: CASE STUDIES IN POLICY DEVELOPMENT: Education, Government, Industry. The course was taught under the wing of TIPP (The Institute of Public Policy) with an assigned course number of PUBP850. The lecture room was up on the third floor in the Johnson Center at George Mason University where the group could have access to a computer associated with a space moderately suitable for running IM WORKSHOP scenarios. In this folder can be found the course announcements, copies of documents used , formal reports sent to Public Policy department, and also items sent to the IM Listserve run by Prof. Larry Maglioca at Ohio State. John tried to get Roxana to help teach but she couldn’t come to the January session. I believe she did come and help teach the May 1998 short course held at end of the semester. The major manual which John wrote for this January Short Course was Patterns and Behavior.

Handouts prepared for the course and given to participants: 3 Manuals: PATTERNS AND BEHAVIOR; DISARMAMENT & DEMOBILIZATION by C. Jeffrey; SEVEN WAYS TO PORTRAY COMPLEXITY.   Also presentation pages: "The Domain of Charles Sanders Peirce"

Guest lecturers who gave presentations were: Dr. Henry Alberts, Carol Jeffrey with Amos Sawyer, and Prof. Reynaldo Trevino.

List of attendees at the short course: Reynaldo Trevino, Carol Jeffrey, Brian Benson, Duan Qu, Helen Armstrong, Vigdor Schriebman, Richard Evans, Henry Alberts, Sinisa Dragic, Amos Sawyer.

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(r.w. circa 2000, updated October 20, 2016)

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