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Policy Making

Course code

RIV6009.YK

old course code

RIV6009

Course title in Estonian

Poliitika kujundamine

Course title in English

Policy Making

ECTS credits

5.0

Assessment form

Examination

lecturer of 2023/2024 Spring semester

Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.

lecturer of 2024/2025 Autumn semester

Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.

Course aims

The purpose of the course:
To understand policy analysis and its' methods, the process of policy making and its' stages;
To implement the acquired competence of public policy to theoretically map and decipher policy perspectives;
To deepen the general knowledge of central theoretical approaches of political sciences.

Brief description of the course

The course gives an insight to the following subjects:
The development of public policy as a dicipline - the need for such dicipline and its' generalistics. The main frames of research of public policy. The process of policy-making, political analysis. Structuring policy problems - the types of policy models and the methods of structuring. Prognosis of policy outcomes. The methods of proposal for policy choices. Proposals of policy choices - approaches and methods. Policy implementation and outcome monitoring. Valuing policies, different methods of monitoring. Different perspectives of desicion-making process analysis.

Learning outcomes in the course

Upon completing the course the student:
- understands policy analysis and its' methods, the process of policy making and its' stages;
- can implement the acquired competence of public policy to theoretically map and decipher policy perspectives;
-has deepen the general knowledge of central theoretical approaches of political sciences.

Teacher

Kersten Kattai

Study programmes containing that course