POLI 2P99 Lecture Notes - Policy, Summative Assessment, Environmental Policy
6 Nov 2013
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Slide 1: the policy cycle agenda setting to evaluation. An overview of the stages of a policy cycle: 1) problem definition, 2) agenda setting, 3) policy formation, 4) instrument selection, 5) policy implementation, 6) policy evaluation. Much of our previous lectures have explicitly or implicitly focused on theories of policy formulation. E. g dynamic and structuralist theories of decision making in canada. Why things are the way they are. Slide 3: policy implementation as a stage of the policy process the policy implementation stage is the process whereby programs or policies are carried out the translation of plans into practice. Policy implementation involves the transformation of goals into actions that directly touch citizens" lives/welfare. Slide 5: there are two kinds of goals: general and operational implementation mostly focuses on operational goals. E. g can government bureaucracies be rightly described as restricted to policy implementation in the narrow sense of the word, or are they involved in.
