2. INTRODUCTIONINTRODUCTION
a mood more than a science, a loosely
organized body of precepts and positions
rather than a tightly integrated body of
systematic knowledge, more art and craft
than a genuine ‘science’
4. •A vast field concerned with
the causes and consequences
of public policy
•It requires into how policies
are formulated and
legitimized
• What effects, beneficial, or
adverse, intended or
unitended, did policy
produced (Dye 1971)
IS
POLICY
SCIENCE
5. • Interrelationships between
substantive issues and political
process
•Emphasis on Policy-making,
sequentiality of policy
developments and impact of
policy outputs (James 1976)
• A course of government
action and inaction in
response to a public problem
IS
PUBLIC
POLICY
6. • It involves the description,
analysis of the causes and
consequences of government
activity.
•It is concerned with how to
make public decisions
rigorously and analytically on
the basis of systematic
quantitative evidence (Dye
1978, Anderson 1975)
IS PUBLIC
ANALYSI
S
7. •Application of knowledge and
rationality to a perceived
social problems (Dror 1968)
•Any research that relates to
or promotes public interest
(Palumbo 1981)
AS
POLICY
STUDIES
8. So Policy Science isSo Policy Science is
It is a dynamic concerned with
knowledge of and in the decision
processes of the public and civic order
Consists of both policy studies and policy
analysis
Policy Studies examines the content of
public policies, the policy processes and
outputs, as well as does some evaluation
of the impacts of public policies
9. WHO ARE THE POLICY SCIENTIST?WHO ARE THE POLICY SCIENTIST?
10. WHAT ARE POLICY SCIENTIST FOR ?WHAT ARE POLICY SCIENTIST FOR ?
ANALYTICAL SKILLS
•HOLD ANALYTICAL
INTEGRITY THEIR
FUNDAMENTAL
VALUE
•THEY LET THEIR
ANALYSIS SPEAK FOR
ITSELF
RESPONSIBILITY
PARTICIPANTS IN
THE FORMATION OF
PUBLIC POLICY
FROM THEIR
CLIENTS WHO HOLD
ELECTED OR
APPOINTED OFFICE
INSTRUMENT
MAKING
PROGRESS
TOWARDS
THEIR
CONCEPTIONOF
THE GOOD
SOCIETY
CLIENT’S ADVOCATE ISSUE ADVOCATEOBJECTIVE TECHNICIAN
11. CONTROVERSIAL COMMENTCONTROVERSIAL COMMENT
1. Temporary FADS or State Materials
2. Too practical or Too Theoritical
3. Too Multi-Disciplinary or Too Narrowly
Focused on Political Science
4. Too Quantitative or Too Subjective
5. Too Underutilized or Too Over Utilized
6. Too Conservative or Too Liberal
12. POLICY SCIENCE IN THE PHIL.POLICY SCIENCE IN THE PHIL.
Started in late 70’s
Under the Martial Law it was agitated to
accelerate national development
It also gave rise to technocrats
Mark of recognition
Sadly did not experience the same
intensity like in the West
13. 19781978
Creation of a Policy Studies Program in
the College of Public Ad in the UP and
graduate program
14. 19891989
PSP was reorganized and expanded its
function to include administrative
development, research and policy.
Policy Institution
15. FUTURE AND PROSPECTFUTURE AND PROSPECT
Limited Reach of the Academic Discipline
Long Gestation period
Newness of Policy Research Insitution
Disjoined Incrementalism and
Individualism
