JSB178 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-4: Policy Analysis, Wicked Problem, Glyn Davis
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From the australian policy handbook by catherine althaus, peter bridgman and glyn. Week 1 chapter 1: why policy matters (p. 5-11) Public policy is how the government and politicians make changes and differences to the community. Politicians are elected to make decisions on the behalf of society and policy is what governments do and neglect to do for the majority. Policy can be viewed as an authoritative choice of government, as a hypothesis that brings about cause and effect or as an objective of government action. Policy as hypothesis: knows that policy is created with some uncertainty and is then tested on critical and demanding situations, does not view public policy as an experiment, claims that good policy will make clear behavioural assumptions. Policy as a hypothesis knows that there is no way to know how people will react to changes and implementations of policy.
