2011 Public Policy Analysis
Content
- Introduction to policy analysis: the academic environment vs. real social problems;
- The theoretical aspects and models of the design of public policies;
- The question of method: classical positivism and critical alternatives;
- The public and policy-making participative behavior and awareness;
- The structure of the public policy process in the EU;
- Evaluation and assessment of the effects of public policies;
- The structure of the public policy process in the EU;
- The rational choice and rational decision making;
- The conceptual challenges of public policies: idealism of effectiveness and efficiency;
- Democratic deficit and deregulation process in the European Union: the case of free trade agreements;
- Socially desirable choice in a time of crisis;
- The interdependence of the economy and the public sector and public-private partnership.
Objectives and competences
Goals
- the ability of multidisciplinary understanding of the context of policy making;
- possible solution of the most difficult problems in public and business administration with methods of policy analysis ;
- recognition of the state’s mechanisms that has available for its operation and methodology for monitoring and evaluation of its operations.
Competences
- the ability to predict the potential impacts and consequences of the monitoring of public policy;
- the ability to prepare the material for the analysis of specific cases;
- the vision to understand and apply methods of critical analyzes and development of theories; the application of knowledge to solve specific problems in the field of public policy ,
- the ability to analyse, synthesise and evaluate public policy content;
- the ability of creative thinking and application of new knowledge.