210131 VO EC: Policy Analysis in the Real World (2024W)

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?

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

Lecture 3: The Unbearable Complexity of Being.

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

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

Lecture 6: Decision-Making in the Policy Process.

Lecture 7: Policy Design: The Instruments of Public Policy

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

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

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

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

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