Summer School - Brasilia Edition 2024

Jennifer Dodge's Course

Jennifer DODGE (Rockefeller College, University at Albany)

Jennifer Dodge is Associate Professor of Public Administration and Policy at Rockefeller College, University at Albany. Using interpretive and critical theories/methodologies, her research focuses on policy conflict, networks, policyadvocacy, and civil society organizations supporting citizen participation in policy, mostly in the environmental field inthe US but also in Colombia. She has advocated for critical perspectives in nonprofit and policy fields, as guest co-editor of the 2022 NVSQ Symposium on Critical Nonprofit Studies (with Tracey Coule and Angela Eikenberry), and as former Editor and current board member ofCritical Policy Studies. She is currently exploring the role of “intersectional coalitions” as a political strategy for addressing climate change.

Roberto Pires (Escola Nacional de Administração Pública ENAP – Brazil)

Roberto Pires is a researcher at the Institute for Applied Economic Research (IPEA) and a professor at the National School of Public Administration (ENAP) and at the Brazilian Institute for Teaching and Research Development (IDP), in Brasília (Brazil). He holds a PhD in Public Policy and Development from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and was a visiting scholar at Sciences Po's Center for Sociology of Organizations and at Brown University's Watson Institute. His research centers on critical perspectives on policy implementation processes. His most recent publications focus on the development and deployment of policy capacities, as well as on the interfaces of policy implementation and social inequalities.

Course: Exploring a critical-interpretive perspective on policy conflicts and social in/justice

In this course, students will learn a critical-interpretive theoretical and methodological perspective from the policy sciences – critical framing analysis – that can be applied to understand policy conflicts, focusing on uncovering and elevating issues of social in/justice. The course will highlight framing dynamics, power, coalition alignment/realignment, and the interplay between policy practices and framing/discourse, among other related topics.