Political Economy at Williams is the study of political and economic forces as they combine to produce public policy. These outputs of the political system are shaped by social forces, nongovernmental organizations, state institutions, markets, knowledge structures, political ideologies, normative goals, and moral values. Policy analysis seeks to both understand and evaluate public policies in their formulation, implementation, and effectiveness. The study of public policy is inherently interdisciplinary, and the Political Economy Program self-consciously incorporates the central analytical approaches of both Political Science and Economics, seeking to surmount the sometimes artificial barriers of specialization that may characterize a
single discipline.
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