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Date: Feb-10-2025

Length: 1 Week

City: Paris

Fees: 4,350

Type: In Classroom

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Course Details

Course Outline

5 days course

Introduction to Public Policy 


  • Understanding the significance and purpose of public policy
  • Identifying market failures and distinguishing between public and private goods 
  • Examining the role of theoretical and empirical models in analyzing and predicting policy outcomes 
  • Introduction to game theory and how it is used to analyze strategic interactions between decision-makers in policy settings 
  • Understanding the rationality assumption and the limited rationality concepts, and their role in policy analysis 
  • Exploring typical strategy games in policy studies and factors contributing to the collapse of negotiations
  • Practical exercises on using game theory and strategy gams in policy analysis and studies

Institutions and Public Policy Implementation 


  • Describing the role of institutions in shaping public policy outcomes 
  • Exploring corporate strategies for addressing different market failures 
  • Understanding the fundamental institutional theory prerequisites 
  • Outlining different justifications for agency inactivity and evasion 
  • Discussing the cost and advantages of vertical and horizontal integration 
  • Discovering different methods used by institutions to solve public policy challenges 
  • Real-world examples of policy failure and institutional response

Policy Analysis and Evaluation Techniques 


  • Describing the significance and role of data and data analysis in public policy decision-making 
  • Understanding basic statistical concepts for policy evaluation, and their relevance in policy research


  • Probability distributions
  • Central limit theorem


  • Recognizing the link between statistical uncertainty and public policy 
  • Exploring how regression analysis is used in public policy to predict policy impacts 
  • Understanding policy assessment and experimental design concepts and policy impact evaluation methods 
  • Discussing challenges in conducting impact evaluation and the difficulty of causal inference
  • Practical exercises on analyzing and interpreting policy data using basic statistical techniques

Policy Communication and Operations in Public Policy 


  • Guidelines and techniques to present policy analysis findings to stakeholders 
  • Exploring different types of data visualization tools used in public policy messaging (e.g. spread charts, histograms, scatter plots, and other graphical representations)
  • Describing the policy cycle’s stages and political considerations:


  • Agenda setting 
  • Policy formulation 
  • Adoption 
  • Implementation 
  • Evaluation 
  • Support/ Maintenance 


  • Exploring the main components of a multi-stream agenda-setting strategy 
  • Key differences between gradual and non-gradual policy decision-making
  • Identifying common flaws in the process of implementing public policy 
  • Practical exercise on developing a policy brief that summarizes key findings on a selected policy issue

Policy Challenges and Government Influence 


  • Discussing the importance of political representation and accountability in policy-making and exploring different types of political representation 
  • Understanding key concepts and considerations in electoral and societal responsibility
  • Analyzing the influence of special interest groups on public policy:


  • Lobbying 
  • Advocacy


  • Discussing criticism of anti-corruption policies 
  • Exploring various systems impacting the public policy and policymaking:


  • Constitutional systems 
  • Election system disparities 
  • Contrasts between the parliamentary and presidential systems 


  • Analyzing the impact of veto players, decentralization and institutional change on public policy
  • Final presentation of policy analysis and solution

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