E-Learning course: The Public Policy Process

This course sheds light on some of these concepts using the work of respected authors in the field. It allows learners to understand how a critical analytic and descriptive framework can help understand who is involved in the policy process, how it operates and ultimately leads to a discussion about who is accountable. The answers to these questions help lay a solid foundation for further exploration of policy analysis and formation in other courses.

By the end of the course students should be able to:

• Understand the distinction between policy and politics; government and governance
• Understand how the national political discourse affects policy making and decision making
• Understand the stages of the policy cycle and their interactions
• Be able to think critically about the actors in the policy making process in their own country and the influences and motivations they may have in the policy process
• Be able to distinguish between outputs and outcomes, monitoring and evaluation
• Understand the importance and relevance of the policy process and all stages of the policy cycle, thereby laying an important foundation for the next course on the techniques for monitoring and evaluation
• Overall, the student should be able to critically reflect on the literature provided and be able to distil this knowledge into their own country context.

Price: without ECTS 380 € / with ETCS 500 €