PPAS 3190- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 40 pages long!)

• School: York University
• Department: Public Policy and Administration Studies
• Course: PPAS 3190
• Professor: Sirvan Karimi

Document Summary

The pitfalls to the study of public policy that should be avoided: It should not be confined to discussion of public administration. It must be linked to the central concerns (power, ideologies and conflict) of political science. It must be put into a comparative perspective. Policy analysis: provides some guidance for governments on how to be efficient, looks for why the government chose this policy and not another. Our study of policy, should be on policy theory, that explains why the government makes these types of decisions. Public policy is not problem solving, there are more demands, which are in conflict with each other, and limited resources, the government has to make decisions and choices based on this, some choices may benefit some and not others. Should be confirmative, see if there is precedence that follows the. Dependent variables: actual characteristics of the program under consideration.