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Understanding Public Policy Making

This document provides an overview of public policy making. It defines public policy as the course of action or inaction that a government takes in response to public problems. Public policy making involves deciding on new policies through a political process. The document outlines some common theories of public policy making and describes the typical steps in the policy making process, including understanding the current environment, identifying alternatives, examining consequences, and selecting policies. It also notes that policy making involves decision making but not all decisions result in new policies.

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Understanding Public Policy Making

This document provides an overview of public policy making. It defines public policy as the course of action or inaction that a government takes in response to public problems. Public policy making involves deciding on new policies through a political process. The document outlines some common theories of public policy making and describes the typical steps in the policy making process, including understanding the current environment, identifying alternatives, examining consequences, and selecting policies. It also notes that policy making involves decision making but not all decisions result in new policies.

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PUBLIC POLICY MAKING

Name: Kumar Sonal


Course: B.A.LLB.
Semester:6th
Enroll no: CUSB1613125024
contents

 What is public policy?


 What is Public-Policy Making?
 Theories of Public Policy Making.
 Process of Public Policy Making.
 Challenges of Public Policy Making.
Meaning of Public Policy
 It is course of Government Action or inaction in
response to Public Problem.
 A/c to “Thomas R Dye”- Whatever government
chooses to do or not to do.
 A/c to “Robert Eye Stone”- The relationship of
government units to its environment.
A/c to “Richard Rose” – Public Policy is not a decision,
it is a course or pattern of activity.
A/c to “Harold Lass well and Abraham Kaplan” – A
projected programme of goals, values, and practices.
Policy Making

 Policy-making is the making of policies.


 The activity of deciding new policy by
political party or govt.
 It involves decision making but every
decision is not policy.
 Action by some line official or body to
reject, alter or accept a preferred policy
alternative.
Steps in Policy-making

 Understanding and analysing of the present


environment, both external and internal;
 Identification of policy alternatives to achieve
the goals in the anticipated environment;
 Examination of the alternatives;
 Elaboration of the consequences of various
alternatives;
 Effect of alternatives and consequences on
preferred values and norms;
 Selection of policies.
Thank you

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