210140 VO EC: Vergleichende Politikfeldanalyse im Kontext aktueller Gesellschaftsprobleme (2023W)

The content of the exam will be the content of the lectures, the lecture slides as well as the literature. All materials will be uploaded on Moodle.

Lecture 1: Introduction: What is Public Policy?

• Howlett et. al., chapter 1, pp2-17
• Cairney, chapter 2, pp 22-46
• Wagenaar et. al., chapters 1 and 2, pp 1-71

Lecture 2.: The Policy Context: Ideas, Actors, and Policy Subsystems, or the Political Economy of Policy Making.

• Howlett et. al. ch. 3, pp 50-90
• Cairney, ch 1, pp 1-22; ch. 4, pp 69-94
• Rod Rhodes
• Wagenaar et. al, ch 4, pp. 145-170

Lecture 3: The Unbearable Complexity of Being.

• Wagenaar, H. and Prainsack, B (2021) The Pandemic Within: Policy Making for a Better World. Bristol: Policy Press, ch. 2, pp. 9-23
• Sterman, J. (2002) “Business Dynamics, System Thinking and Modeling for a Complex World”, Cambridge, MA: MIT, Sloan School of Management, Working Paper Series, ESD-WP-2003-01.13

Lecture 4: The Policy Process: Stages, Governance or Both?

• Cairney, ch. 8, pp. 154-175
• Rhodes, R. (1996) 'The New Governance: Governing without Government' Political Studies, 44, pp. 652-

Lecture 5: Agenda-Setting, Policy Streams, and Power.

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Lecture 6: Decision-Making in the Policy Process.

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Lecture 7: Policy Design: The Instruments of Public Policy

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Lecture 8: Policy Implementation: Why the Realization of Public Policy is So Darn Difficult (and Why many Politicians Don’t Have a Clue).

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Lecture 9: The Essential Role of Administrators: Rules, Street-Level Bureaucrats, and Administrative Discretion.

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Lecture 10: The Analysis of Public Policy: The Rational Ideal and its Critics

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Lecture 11: The Analysis of Public Policy: Interpretive Policy Analysis

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Lecture 12: Deliberative Policy Analysis: Values and Action in Policy Analysis

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