Scribd
Upload
9 views

Lecture-2

Uploaded by

Md. Mahin Islam
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as PPTX, PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
9 views

Lecture-2

Uploaded by

Md. Mahin Islam
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as PPTX, PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
You are on page 1/ 13

Public Policy Analysis

BPA- 405
Lecture 2
Date: 30-07-2022
Abdur Rahman
History of public policy
• American military intervention in south east Asia
• Aftermath of military intervention 1960-1970
• Nixon administration
Relation between policy and politics

Policy making process is a part of politics and political action


political system is a set of interactions having structures,
each of which performs its functions in order to keep it like
an on-going concern
Output activities are those which are carried on by a political
system in response to demands or stresses placed upon the
system in the form of inputs. Outputs can take the form of
governmental policies, programmes, decisions etc.
Policy
• Policy in used to designate the behavior of some actors like official, a
group, a government agency) or a set of actors in a given area of activities.
Policy and Goals
• Goals are what policies aim at or hope to achieve. A goal
is a desired state of affairs that a society or an
organization attempts to realise.
• Removal of poverty is a goal that the government wants to
pursue.
• Public policies are concerned with such specific goals
• If the government announces that its goal is to provide
housing to all the members Public Policy :of the deprived
sections of society it does not become a public policy
Policies and Decisions
• A decision can be taken only when there is more than one alternative
available. Thus a decision is the act of making a choice.
• There can be two types of decisions, programmed and non-programmed.
• Programmed decisions are repetitive and do not require a fresh
consideration every time they are taken. For example, once the decision to
open the library from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. is taken, it does not require fresh
consideration keep it open during those hours.
• Non-programmed decisions are new and unstructured.
• Such decisions are required in the situations of unprecedented nature, for
example breakdown of an epidemic, occurrence of earthquake, etc.
What is public policy
The relationship of a government unit to its environment.

Public policy is weather governments choose to do or not to do

Policy is a course or pattern of activity and not simply a decision to do


something
Implication of concept of public policy

 Purposive or goal orientated action rather than random or chance behavior

 Policy is what government actually do in regulation trade controlling inflation or ensuring


public service etc.

 Public policy either positive or negative in form ( positive means form of action to affect a
particular problem negative means not to take any action to do nothing)

 Public policy is positive form based on law, and its authoritarian.


Nature of public policy
 policy as a course of action can be better or more fully understood

 Public policy is what the government actually decides or chooses to do

 Policy demand made upon public official by other actors public or private

 policy decision made by the public official

 Public Policies are goal oriented

 Policy statement

 Policy output

 Policy outcomes of the government's collective actions


CHARACTERISTICS OF PUBLIC
•
POLICY MAKING
Public Policy Making is a Very Complex Process
• It is a Dynamic Process
• Policy making Comprises Various Components
• Policy Structure makes Different Contributions
• Decision-Making
• Lays down Major Guidelines
• Results in Action
• Directed at the Future:
• Mainly Formulated by Governmental Organs
• Aims at Achieving what is in the Public Interest
• Use of Best Possible Means
• Involvement of Various Bodies Agencies
Why study of public policy
Scientific reason: in order to gain greater knowledge about the origin of problem
by which to developed and its consequence of the society
Professional reason ( solution for social problem )
Political reason (government goal, Conflict resolution, Human rights
and ensuring service for the people )
End of the Lecture

You might also like