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Policy Analysis |
What governments do, why they do it, what difference it makes |
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Public policy |
Whatever governments choose to do or not to do |
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Public policies |
May regulate behavior, organize bureaucracies, distribute benefits, or extract taxes |
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Public policy (Easton) |
"The authoritative allocation of values for the whole society" |
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Policy (Lasswell and Kaplan) |
Projected program of goals, values, and practices |
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Public policy |
All actions of government |
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1 Scientific Understanding 2 Problem solving 3 Policy recommendations |
Why study public policy? |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Public advocacy |
Prescribing what policies governments ought to pursue -requires skills of rhetoric, persuasion, organization, and activism |
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Policy Analysis |
Encourages scholars and students to attack critical polocy issues with the tools of systematic inquiry |
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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 |
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Institutional model Process model Group model Elite model Rational model Incremental model Game Theory Systems model |
Models for Policy Analysis |
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Institutional model |
Policy is an institutional output |
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Process model |
"Policy is a political activity." |
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Group model |
"Policy as a result of group equilibrium." |
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Elite model |
"Policy is the elite preference." Public policy is the prevailing values of the elite. |
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Rational model |
"Policy is the result of maximum social gain." |
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Incremental model |
Policies are variations on the past |
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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 |
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Public choice |
Policy is the collective decision making by self-interested individuals. |
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Systems model |
Policy is the output of the system |