Public policy analysis - Prof. Simone Busetti - a.a. 2024/2025

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  Public policy analysis - Prof. Simone Busetti - a.a. 2024/2025

  The course provides basic concepts and tools for understanding public decision-making. Classes will have a practical focus; we will analyse existing policy programmes and experiment with the concepts and tools presented in class. We will use an online game to simulate policy decisions. 

  We will run through the following topics: 1) when policy problems enter the government agenda, 2) which actors influence policy formulation, 3) why decision-makers select certain policies and not others, 4) which strategies are available to policy entrepreneurs to introduce radical changes to existing policy. Examples and case studies will include the following: public infrastructures, public administration reforms, social policy, local development, environmental policy and others.
  The exam will consist in the analysis of a case of decision making. 
  All classes will be in English, but don’t panic: basic language skills will make you get through successfully.

  COURSE MATERIAL
  
  

  Understanding Policy Decisions, Springer

  • Author: Bruno Dente
  • Pages: All chapters

  Additional material will be distributed in class

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• Select section 1. Social problems: setting the agenda and measurement

  1. Social problems: setting the agenda and measurement
• Select section 2. What governments do: programmes, tools, implementation

  2. What governments do: programmes, tools, implementation
• Select section 3. Deciding what to do: policy decisions and strategies

  3. Deciding what to do: policy decisions and strategies
• Select section 4. Understanding what works and why: design, implementation, context

  4. Understanding what works and why: design, implementation, context
• Select section 5. Did it work? Elements of evaluation research

  5. Did it work? Elements of evaluation research
• Select section Assignment: policy project

  Assignment: policy project