scholarly journals AN OVERVIEW OF PUBLIC POLICY ANALYSIS MASTERS PROGRAMS

2021 ◽  
pp. 161
Author(s):  
Branko Radulović
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Economic Analysis ◽  
Policy Analysis ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Public Management ◽  
Master Program ◽  
Policy Theory ◽  
European Universities ◽  
Public Policy Analysis

The paper presents research on the content of postgraduate programs in the field of public policy at leading European universities. Based on previous research, more than 80 courses are classified in four areas: economic analysis, research methods, public administration, and public policy, in order to obtain a typical master program in public policy analysis. The programs mostly emphasize research methods and public policy theory and application with somewhat lower presence of economic analysis and public management. The results of the research can be used for the purpose of formulating new postgraduate programs at universities in Serbia.

Research

2020 ◽  
pp. 123-126
Author(s):  
Alasdair Roberts
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Public Management ◽  
The State ◽  
Management Approach ◽  
Statistical Research ◽  
The Public ◽  
Level Of Analysis

This chapter explores public administration research. Complaints about a lack of rigor in public administration research intensified in the 1980s. “Lack of rigor” meant a failure to define concepts and problems precisely, to test the validity of claims properly, and to build on the work of earlier scholars. In the interdisciplinary schools of public policy established in the 1970s and 1980s, researchers in public management worked alongside scholars from “hard” disciplines such as economics, and struggled to win support from their peers when they applied for tenure and promotion. The public management approach was designed to overcome this stigma. Scholars in public management sought to focus on questions of manageable size, define concepts and hypotheses precisely, and rely on the quantitative-statistical research methods preferred by economists. All of this would assure “rigorous empirical analysis.” By the early 2000s, quantitative-statistical research methods were dominant in the field. The worry today is that a shift in the focus of research toward the macro-level of analysis—that is, toward big questions about the role and design of the state—will mean abandoning the accomplishments of the last thirty years. The chapter then considers three ways to respond to such concerns.

Futurism in Policy Analysis

1986 ◽  
Vol 51 ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
E. Clarke Ross
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Policy Analysis ◽  
Science Fiction ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Air Force ◽  
State University ◽  
Futures Studies ◽  
Politics And Science ◽  
Public Policy Analysis ◽  
The U.S

Michael Genovese's summer 1985 article, “Politics and Science Fiction Films,” is an excellent introduction to the broader topic of futurism and forecasting as methods of public policy analysis. These methods can be an interesting and challenging aspect of a graduate public administration course in public policy analysis.“The future does not simply happen. We create it. We can choose our future.” Accepting this assumption, I have integrated futures studies and forecasting into the Troy State University European Region graduate public administration course, “Policy and Decision Making in Government.” The course is a required component of a master's degree program offered under contract with the U.S. Air Force European Command. I have taught the course seven times, at bases in England, Turkey, Spain, Germany, and the Netherlands.

Policy analysis and bureaucratic capacity in the federal government

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jesus F. Hernández-Galicia ◽  
David Arellano-Gault
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Policy Analysis ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Federal Government ◽  
The Other ◽  
Federal Level ◽  
Public Policy Analysis ◽  
Network Manager ◽  
Current Characteristics

The purpose of this chapter is to understand and study the emerging bureaucratic skills being developed at the federal level to undertake policy analysis in Mexico. To this end, first, a literature review was undertaken to identify some of the key capacities and skills required for a bureaucracy to be regarded as competent in public policy analysis. Second, two surveys were conducted, one administered to all middle and senior public administration management, and the other focusing on units specializing in public policy analysis. The current characteristics of Mexican federal bureaucracy were identified, together with the challenges faced by bureaucrats in translating the results of policy analysis into actions and programs that can be implemented. Finally, a series of activities and skills informally performed by certain civil servants (articulators/translators called fixer, network manager and policy manager) of the enormous bureaucratic apparatus is discussed.

Ethics and Public Policy

1981 ◽  
Vol 29 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
George J. Graham
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Policy Analysis ◽  
Policy Process ◽  
Policy Issue ◽  
Policy Choice ◽  
Single Text ◽  
Public Policy Analysis ◽  
The Government ◽  
New Framework ◽  
Selection Of

The purpose of this course is to introduce a new framework linking the humanities to public policy analysis as pursued in the government and the academy. Current efforts to link the particular contributions from the humanities to problems of public policy choice are often narrow either in terms of their perspective on the humanities or in terms of their selection of the possible means of influencing policy choice. Sometimes a single text from one of the humanities disciplines is selected to apply to a particular issue. At other times, arguments about the ethical dimensions of a single policy issue often are pursued with a single — or sometimes, no — point of access to the policy process in mind.

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