Advance your public decision-making talents and abilities — locally, statewide, nationally, globally
Join us this July for our challenging week’s worth of guest speakers, simulation crisis management games, and career advancing skills at the Government Decision-making Institute. We’ll help you build your strategic and scenario planning capabilities more effectively for prioritizing, managing crises, and tackling conflicts.
Political Science professors Joshua Spero and Shane Martin welcome you to become a more essential part of society in an exciting, cutting-edge, and behind-the-scenes learning environment enriching your grasp of public policies and practices. This institute is for:
- students
- teachers
- public policymakers
- corporate planners
- organizational strategists
The benefits of and opportunities for learning with us at the Decision-making Institute enable you to:
- Better understand the latest changes and linkages for governing at the local, state, national, and international levels — governing that impacts us as individuals and as key parts of society;
- Hone briefing capabilities, build negotiation techniques, and improve critical thinking for strategic and scenario planning and cost-benefit analysis;
- Increase efforts to bridge the divide between public policy considerations and private sector bottom-line approaches.
We’ll help you determine more insightfully, critically, and constructively as you role-play advisers to some of the top public Massachusetts and federal level policymakers confronting simulated crises on:
- Public safety
- Economic development
- Energy effectiveness
- Environment and climate change
- Homeland security and defense
We’ll learn lessons together to develop greater appreciation for the complexities of how scholars understand ideas and policymakers prioritize, plan, and implement public policy — and how we might better understand the decisions to be made in the early twenty-first century.
The Instructors
Professor Joshua Spero has taught courses in government decision-making, American foreign policy, and international relations, and has written a book and numerous articles on crisis management and conflict prevention, particularly on middle power politics. Please contact Professor Spero if you have any questions.
Professor Shane Martin, has taught courses in government decision-making, American politics, state and urban government, and various speech communication and rhetoric classes and techniques.
The course begins on July 13.
Register by June 25 to avoid the $50 registration fee.