Introduction to Policy Analysis 1

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  1. 5. _____-______ The primary concern on this branch of policy analysis consists of the tools of policy making, i.e. how to use methods of policy analysis to improve policy making. Its main activity is providing tools, methods, and procedures to governments fro planning, designing, and implementing the best policy solutions. It overall aim is to make the policy-making process more intelligent and rational through tools and procedure of planing and decision-making.
  2. 6. _____-______ (singular) The type of policy intervention used to influence the target population to achieve desired policy objectives (eg: regulation, incentives, information) (Hassel & Wegrich, 2022)
  3. 8. ________ The primary concern of this branch of policy analysis is the political process of policy-making, i.e. how to achieve good policies under conditions of contested politics. Its main activity is explaining policy processes and their outcomes, often with an emphasis on cross-sectoral comparisons. Its overall aim is to understand policy-making as the result of actors’ aims to influence decisions that allocate values and resources under institutional constrains.
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  1. 1. _____-______ (singular) Policy is not the same as a ________: while a ________ – a government action to address a particular issue by deploying the resources of government (authority, monetary resources, information, or personnel and organizational resources) - is the materialization of a policy. A policy can also be to not adopt a new ________ (Hassel & Wegrich, 2022)
  2. 2. Public policy today needs to _________ the three branches of policy analysis.
  3. 3. “_____-______ is usally defined as the field of study and practice dealing with the development, implementation, and evaluation of public policies and their outcomes” (Hassel & Wegrich, 2022). _____-______ is here discussed as work intended to advance knowledge of the causes of public problems, alternative aproaches to addressing them, the likely impacts of those alternatives, and trade-offs that might emerge when considering appropriate governmental responses to those public problems (Mitrom and William
  4. 4. _____-______ (singular) Any measure by governments to address a problem (Hassel & Wegrich, 2022). A course of action (or non-action) taken by a government or legislature with regard to a particular issue (Knill and Tosun, 2020). Any actions taken by governments that represent previously agreed responses to specified circumstances (Mitrom and Williams, 2012, p.4). Courses of action rather than just individual case-by-case decisions, that governments deploy in order to address societal problems that have entered the political agenda with the mandate and expectation to do something about them (Hassel & Wegrich, 2022, p.13)
  5. 7. ________ This branch of policy analysis is concerned with what should be done to address societal problems (hence Fritz W. Sharpf (1997) refers to this branch as ‘problem-oriented’ approach). It focuses on what difference policies make for society and the problem at hand. Its main activity concerns aquiring expert knowledge to provide the best solutions to policy problems. Its overall aim is to find optimal policy solutions to address particular policy problems.