PAP 2300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Policy, Public Choice, Amitai Etzioni

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Public Administration
• Course: PAP 2300
• Professor: Frank Ohemeng

Document Summary

Whatever governments choose to do or not to do . A course of action or inaction chosen by public authorities to address a given problem of interrelated set of problems . Public policy must be considered to encompass the actual activities undertaken by a government whether or not a government"s objectives and strategies are explicit, or are congruent with its activities . A purposive course of an action followed by an actor or set of actors in dealing with a problem or matter of concern . James e. anderson (1948) said: gregory p. marchildon (2001) said. The systematic laying out of the objectives of a government" as well as the practical measures that are proposed to achieve those objectives" . An important means for understanding the policy making process is to desegregate the policy process into a series of discrete stages and sub-stages. The resulting sequence of stages is referred to as the policy cycle: formation, implementation, evaluation.