Public Prevention Policies (21078)

Year: 2
Term: 3
Number of ECTS credits: 4

Syllabus

- Background information: understanding the importance of the political framework for the design, implementation and assessment of public prevention polices.

- Course typology and focus: a specialisation course, lectures and discussion seminars.

- Key aspects of the course: centred on the understanding of the analytical tools of political science and their application to public policies.

- Contents section 1. PUBLIC POLICIES AND THE WELFARE STATE Introduction to the study of public policies

  1. The development of the welfare state

- Contents section 2. IDENTIFICATION OF POLITICAL 'PROBLEMS' AND DELIBERATION

  1. Public policy analysis
  2. Agenda-setting and defining political problems
  3. Decision-making theory

- Contents section 3. PUBLIC POLICY IMPLEMENTATION, CONTINUITY AND CHANGE

  1. Continuity and change in public polices
  2. Implementation

- Contents section 4. POLICY-MAKING, INSTITUTIONS AND POLICY TRANSFER

  1. Transfer of political powers (devolution) and policy-making
  2. Policy transfer and learning from international practices

- Contents section 5. ARE PUBLIC POLICY PROBLEMS APOLITICAL?

  1. The depoliticising of public policy