PSCI 5086
Making effective use of technical information; justifying aspirations; administrative procedures; litigation; politics; of general applicability to environmental problems; aimed at the first and third party participant.
This course provides an introduction to the decision process of public policy: the set of activities that together define the continuum of public policy decision-making. For the student, the course has two primary goals: 1) to gain a basic conceptual understanding of the public policy decision process; and 2) to become adept at analyzing the various dimensions of the decision process for the purpose of strategizing and making recommendation about how to realize a set of preferred policy outcomes in applied policy settings. To these ends, the course plan alternates between the intensive consideration of a set of readings about the different phases of the policy decision process, and the analysis and application of decision process concepts to cases selected by students.