Using Community Resources to Teach Public Policy

1984 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Keith J. Mueller
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Health Policy ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Community Resources ◽  
Alternative Instruction ◽  
Policy Studies ◽  
The Public ◽  
Energy Environment ◽  
Science Departments ◽  
Specific Health

The recent growth in policy studies curricula in political science departments affords increased opportunities for experimentation with alternative instruction modes. This article describes one innovation found to be appropriate for courses for which the instructor has access to experts in the policy being studied. In this example, community experts in health policy issues were used as resource persons to assist in discussion of specific health policy concerns. Other policy courses should be amenable to this format, including energy, environment, and economic development courses. Even without using community experts, the general format of weekly colloquiums could be replicated for other policy courses.The courses described herein is an upper division/graduate level course in American Health Policy. It is taught for one semester every other year as one of several topical courses in the public policy track within political science.

Science and Sovietology: Bridging the Methods Gap in Soviet Foreign Policy Studies

1988 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 169-193 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jack Snyder
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Security Policy ◽  
Policy Studies ◽  
Area Studies ◽  
Soviet Foreign Policy ◽  
Domestic Sources ◽  
Science Departments

Specialists in the study of Soviet foreign policy increasingly feel torn between the positivist culture of political science departments and the holistic traditions of the Soviet area-studies programs. In fact, these approaches are largely complementary. Examples taken from literature on Soviet security policy and on the domestic sources of Soviet expansionism show how positivist theories and methods can be used to clarify holist (or traditionalist) arguments, to sharpen debates, to suggest more telling tests, and to invigorate the field's research agenda.

scholarly journals DESIGNING A MODEL TO INVESTIGATE THE ROLE OF THE FACTORS FORMUIATION PUBLIC POLICIES IN THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE SYSTEM HEALTH POLICY

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sorush Niknamian
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Health Policy ◽  
Public Policies ◽  
Administrative System ◽  
Statistical Population ◽  
Cronbach Alpha ◽  
Khuzestan Province ◽  
The Public ◽  
Final Sample

The purpose of this study is to design a model to investigate the role of the Individuals making public policies in the implementation of the administrative system health policy. Two questionnaire has been used in the current study: One whose main aim was to investigate the actors making public policy with 51 questions and Cronbach Alpha 0.93, and the other one in the administrative system health policy with 74 questions and Cronbach Alpha 0.95. To be assured with regard to the validity of the questionnaires content and construct validities were estimated. The statistical population of the current study were 86643 employers of the executive organizations of the Khuzestan province, Iran. The final sample of the study was 382 individuals based on Cochran. Data analysis was done by using SPSS 22 and Amos 22. The results of the current study revealed that the factors making the public policy included 13 factors in which the most average was for mass media (7.64) and the least was the powerful elites with the mean of (5.64). The health administrative policies included 14 policies, all of them were at significant point except the policies of eleventh to thirteenth of the fifth book “Islamic Panel Code”, the law of banning more than on job, and the principles of prevention and fighting against bribe. The results also showed that there was a statistically significant relationship between the factors making public policy and those of administrative health policy.

Defending Government: Why Big Government Works. By Max Neiman. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2000. 260p. $27.00 paper.

2001 ◽  
Vol 95 (1) ◽  
pp. 217-218
Author(s):  
John C. Pierce
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Public Policy ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
The United States ◽  
Goal Achievement ◽  
Graduate Courses ◽  
The Public

Max Neiman provides a concise, well-written, and compre- hensive critical analysis of "the conservative attack on the public sector, especially its explanation for and evaluation of the size and growth of the public sector in the United States" (p. viii). In doing so, however, he only partially fulfills what is promised in the subtitle, namely, explaining why big govern- ment works. Rather than explicitly assess the reasons for goal achievement in a variety of policy areas, as the title implied to me, Neiman focuses on why we have big government and on the various critiques of that size. To be sure, the book is appropriate for upper division and graduate courses in political science, public policy, or public administration.

From Public Law to Public Policy, or The “Public” in “Public Law”

1972 ◽  
Vol 5 (04) ◽  
pp. 410-418
Author(s):  
Martin Shapiro
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Public Law ◽  
Judicial Behavior ◽  
Private Law ◽  
The Public ◽  
Forward Looking

In a self-consciously forward looking survey recently published inPS, Glendon Schubert continues to employ the phrase “public law” as roughly synonymous with the legal concerns of political science. The recent publication of Murphy and Tanenhaus'The Study of Public Lawalso reaffirms that, in spite of the movement toward “judicial behavior,” which it might have been anticipated would change the boundaries of the field, the “public” in public law is still very much with those political scientists particularly concerned with things legal. There does not seem to me to be any valid reason why political scientists should maintain the public law—private law distinction and then proceed to exclude themselves from the “private” law sphere.

scholarly journals The Case for Public Policy Expertise in Political Science

2019 ◽  
Vol 52 (03) ◽  
pp. 476-480
Author(s):  
Veronica Herrera ◽  
Alison E. Post
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Research Funding ◽  
Research Area ◽  
The Public ◽  
Innovative Work ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Academic Positions

ABSTRACTThe politics of public policy is a vibrant research area increasingly at the forefront of intellectual innovations in the discipline. We argue that political scientists are best positioned to undertake research on the politics of public policy when they possess expertise in particular policy areas. Policy expertise positions scholars to conduct theoretically innovative work and to ensure that empirical research reflects the reality they aim to analyze. It also confers important practical advantages, such as access to a significant number of academic positions and major sources of research funding not otherwise available to political scientists. Perhaps most importantly, scholars with policy expertise are equipped to defend the value of political science degrees and research in the public sphere.

Ethnicity and the Politics of AIDS

2011 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 873-877
Author(s):  
Macartan Humphreys
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Health Policy ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Comparative Politics ◽  
Ethnic Politics ◽  
Comparative Public Policy ◽  
Simple Question

Evan Lieberman's Boundaries of Contagion: How Ethnic Politics Have Shaped Government Responses to Aids proceeds from a simple question of great importance to millions of people: “Why have some governments responded to AIDS more quickly and more broadly than others?” In answering this question, Lieberman employs a range of methods and engages a range of scholarly literatures dealing with health policy, comparative public policy, and ethnic politics. Because the book addresses “big” issues and bridges conventional divides in political science, we have invited a number of colleagues working broadly in comparative politics to comment on it.—Jeffrey C. Isaac, Editor

Ethnicity and the Politics of AIDS

2011 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 877-879
Author(s):  
Eduardo J. Gómez
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Health Policy ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Comparative Politics ◽  
Ethnic Politics ◽  
Comparative Public Policy ◽  
Simple Question

Evan Lieberman's Boundaries of Contagion: How Ethnic Politics Have Shaped Government Responses to Aids proceeds from a simple question of great importance to millions of people: “Why have some governments responded to AIDS more quickly and more broadly than others?” In answering this question, Lieberman employs a range of methods and engages a range of scholarly literatures dealing with health policy, comparative public policy, and ethnic politics. Because the book addresses “big” issues and bridges conventional divides in political science, we have invited a number of colleagues working broadly in comparative politics to comment on it.—Jeffrey C. Isaac, Editor

scholarly journals Features of political discourse In Russian language

2018 ◽  
Vol 215 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-38
Author(s):  
Dr.Ghada Tariq Sabri
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
Public Policy ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
Complex Object ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Purpose

     Political discourse is a complex object of studying, "it is the intersection of different fields like: political science, social psychology, linguistics. It has the analysis of form, objectives and content of used in certain (" political ") situations." According to researchers AN Baranov and EG Kazakevich, political discourse forms a "total speeches, acts used in political discussions, as well as rules of public policy expertise." The public purpose of political discourse - to convince recipients with a "political corrects" political evaluations.

scholarly journals DESIGNING A MODEL TO INVESTIGATE THE ROLE OF THE FACTORS FORMUIATION PUBLIC POLICIES IN THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE SYSTEM HEALTH POLICY

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sorush Niknamian
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Health Policy ◽  
Public Policies ◽  
Administrative System ◽  
Statistical Population ◽  
Cronbach Alpha ◽  
Khuzestan Province ◽  
The Public ◽  
Final Sample

The purpose of this study is to design a model to investigate the role of the Individuals making public policies in the implementation of the administrative system health policy. Two questionnaire has been used in the current study: One whose main aim was to investigate the actors making public policy with 51 questions and Cronbach Alpha 0.93, and the other one in the administrative system health policy with 74 questions and Cronbach Alpha 0.95. To be assured with regard to the validity of the questionnaires content and construct validities were estimated. The statistical population of the current study were 86643 employers of the executive organizations of the Khuzestan province, Iran. The final sample of the study was 382 individuals based on Cochran. Data analysis was done by using SPSS 22 and Amos 22. The results of the current study revealed that the factors making the public policy included 13 factors in which the most average was for mass media (7.64) and the least was the powerful elites with the mean of (5.64). The health administrative policies included 14 policies, all of them were at significant point except the policies of eleventh to thirteenth of the fifth book “Islamic Panel Code”, the law of banning more than on job, and the principles of prevention and fighting against bribe. The results also showed that there was a statistically significant relationship between the factors making public policy and those of administrative health policy.

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