Public Policy Analysis

Institutions and public policy

• How businesses may respond to market failures.

• Fundamental institutional theory prerequisites

• Justifications for agency inactivity and evasion.

• Outlines the broad policy answers to the manager's and agent's challenges.

• Vertical and horizontal integration costs and advantages

• How institutions may solve issues of public policy.

Quantitative abilities in public policy

• Data analysis and description methods, as well as acquiring the fundamental logic underpinning statistical analysis

• Basic statistical ideas.

• Be familiar with probability distributions and the central limit theorem.

• The connection between statistical uncertainty and public policy.

• The significance of regression and its relationship to public policy issues.

• Apply statistical knowledge to interpret policy statements.

Evaluation of Public Policy

• Key concepts in effective assessment and experimental design.

• The fundamental difficulty of causal inference.

• Emphasize the significance of effect evaluation in public policy.

• Difficulties in performing impact evaluations.

• Evaluation of the experimental design to determine its impact.

Policy communication

• Practical knowledge and abilities for effective policy communication.

• Distinguish between different types of data visualization, such as spread charts and histograms.

• The utility of data visualizations in public policy messaging

Operations in public policy

• The policy cycle's stages and the political considerations that influence each step

• The significance of establishing the plan in public policy.

• Define the components of a multi-stream agenda-setting strategy.

• Differentiating between gradual and non-gradual policy decision-making.

• Common flaws in the process of implementing public policy.

• Examine the policy's influence on the evaluation process.

• Conduct research on strategies for each step of the policy cycle.

Accountability, representation, and public policy

• The significance of political representation and accountability.

• Recognizing the many kinds of political representation.

• Distinguishing between selection and approval in the context of electoral responsibility.

• Distinguishing between examples of vertical, horizontal, and societal responsibility.

• The influence of special interest groups on public policy.

• Criticism of anti-corruption policies.

Policies of public policy

• The influence of constitutional systems on public policy.

• The influence of election system disparities on public policy.

• The impact of the contrasts between the parliamentary and presidential systems on public policy.

• The impact of a veto player on the policy's result.

• Examining how electoral incentives influence government expenditures.

• Decentralization's impact.

• Assess the impact of institutional change on the result of public policy.

Government Policy Challenges

• Apply what you've learned in this course to real-world political scenarios.

• Policy solution comparison.

• Examining real-world political case studies

• Make public policy decisions based on the findings of the impact assessment.