This course would examine the influence of political and organizational factors on the various stages of the policy process including problem identification, developing alternative responses, assessing the political feasibility of alternative responses, generating political support, budgeting and resource allocation, and implementing policy decisions through both public and private institutions. Study the dynamics of public policy formulation and the institutional mechanism through which relative priorities are fixed while allocating the resources among different stakeholders with competing demands.
Understanding Public Policy
by
Defining public policy
Approaches to public policy
The public policy process
Study the Policy Flow Chart
Actors, instruments, and institutions involved in the policy process
Sources of public policy
Theoretical models and latest concepts and issues of public policy formulation process
Role of International Institutions in public policy formulation
Role of Civil Society Organizations in public policy formulation
Political institutions, inter-departmental linkages and public policy
Public policy formulation and national security
Role of leaders and the parliament with regard to national consensus on public policy
issues
Globalization and its impact on the process of public policy formulation and
implementation
Policy analysis and evaluation
‘Principles of policy’ as envisage in the Constitution and its effect on policy formulation
in Pakistan
