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Policy Analysis

What governments do, why they do it, what difference it makes

Public policy

Whatever governments choose to do or not to do

Public policies

May regulate behavior, organize bureaucracies, distribute benefits, or extract taxes

Public policy (Easton)

"The authoritative allocation of values for the whole society"

Policy (Lasswell and Kaplan)

Projected program of goals, values, and practices

Public policy

All actions of government

1 Scientific Understanding


2 Problem solving


3 Policy recommendations

Why study public policy?

Scientific Understanding

-understanding the causes and consequences of public policy decisions improves our knowledge of society


Public policy(DEPENDENT VARIABLE) : what socio-economic conditions and political system characteristics shape the content of policy


Public policy(INDEPENDENT VARIABLE) : what impact public policy has on society and its political system

Problem solving

Understanding the causes and consequences of public policy permits us to apply social science knowledge to the solutiob of practical problems


-"if...then" statements

Policy recommendations

1) To ensure that the nation adapts the "right" policies to achieve the "right" goals


2) To inform political discussion, advance the level of political awareness and to improve the quality of public policy

Public advocacy

Prescribing what policies governments ought to pursue


-requires skills of rhetoric, persuasion, organization, and activism

Policy Analysis

Encourages scholars and students to attack critical polocy issues with the tools of systematic inquiry

1. A primary concern with expectation rather than prescription.


2. A rigorous for the causes abd consequences of public policies.


3. An effort to develop and test general propositions about the causes and consequences of public policy and to accumulate reliable research findings of general relevance.

What policy analysis involves

Institutional model


Process model


Group model


Elite model


Rational model


Incremental model


Game Theory


Systems model

Models for Policy Analysis

Institutional model

Policy is an institutional output

Process model

"Policy is a political activity."

Group model

"Policy as a result of group equilibrium."

Elite model

"Policy is the elite preference."


Public policy is the prevailing values of the elite.

Rational model

"Policy is the result of maximum social gain."

Incremental model

Policies are variations on the past

Game Theory

Policy is the rational choice in the competitive situations


-study of rational decisions in situations in which two or more participants have choices to make and the outcome depends on the choices made by each

Public choice

Policy is the collective decision making by self-interested individuals.

Systems model

Policy is the output of the system