Public Policy and Governance II

1. Public policy and public policy analysis.
Concept of public policy. Politics and public policy. Emergence and consolidation of policy studies. Classification of public policies. Comparing public policies as a method of analysis. Process and cycle of public policies. The relationship between the cycle of policy and its analysis.
2. The definition of the problems.
Construction of problems. From issues to public problems. The importance of defining problems. Frame Analysis.
3. The construction of the agenda and decision-making.
Public attention. The public agenda, the media agenda and the political agenda. The formation of the public agenda and the government agenda. The dynamics of the political agenda. Multiple streams Framework. Decisional models applied to public performances.
4. The implementation of public policies.
Perspectives on the implementation of public policies: Up-down analysis and bottom-up analysis. The management of the commons. Institutional Rational Choice.
5. The evaluation of public policies and programmes.
The emergence of evaluation of public policies and programmes and its current situation. Types of evaluation. Evaluation, feedback and reprogramming. Politics and policy evaluation.
6. Actors of public policies and institutions.
The classical approaches to the actors. Public policy networks. Bureaucracy, political parties and other actors. Institutions and institutionalization process. Impact of institutions on public policies.
7. The importance of ideas in public action.
Ideas in politics. Public policies and change. Logic and rationalization of public policies. The Advocacy Coalition Framework.
8. Termination and change of public policies.
Types of change. Effects and causes of change. Punctuated-Equilibrium Framework. Dissemination of public policies.