This document summarizes key aspects of public policy, including that it is a systematic response to issues, involves both advantages and disadvantages, and is a political process involving negotiation, power, and compromise. It discusses how policy can determine politics or vice versa, and how policymaking occurs through different governmental organizations. The document also introduces public policy processes and theories, including multiple streams theory which describes how problems, policies, and politics can align to create a "window of opportunity" for policy entrepreneurs to couple the streams and advance policies.

1. Public Policy :
Theory & Practice
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2. Public Policy
• Public Policy
– Is a systematic response to a general problem, issue or situation
– a relatively stable, purposive course of action or inaction followed by an actor or set of actors
in dealing with a problem or matter of concern (James Anderson)
– confer advantages and disadvantages; cause pleasure, irritation, and pain; and distributional
repercussions
• “Policymaking is “political”; it involves “politics.” That is, its features include
conflict, negotiation, the exercise of power, bargaining, and compromise—and
sometimes such nefarious practices as deception and bribery (Jones 2009)
• Policy determines politics or otherwise?
• Policymaking: organizational venue (legislature, Executive, Judiciary, Administrative
Agencies)
• Policy analysis (CBA): seeks to identify the most efficient alternative (optimizes net
social benefit)
• Public Policy Processes, Theories and Framework
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5. Multiple Streams Theory
PROBLEM STREAM
window of opportunity"
permits policy
entrepreneurs to couple
the various streams
POLITICS
POLICY STREAM
STREAM
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