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Policy Design

Course code

RIV6029.YK

old course code

Course title in Estonian

Poliitika kujundamine

Course title in English

Policy Design

ECTS credits

6.0

Assessment form

Examination

lecturer of 2024/2025 Spring semester

Kersten Kattai (language of instruction:Estonian)

lecturer of 2025/2026 Autumn semester

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

Course aims

Understand the logics and stages of the policy-making process and policy analysis; acquire the prerequisites to analyse policies within the framework of policy making process.

Brief description of the course

The process and stages of policy-making and policy analysis. Structuring policy problems - the types of policy and the methods of structuring. Agenda setting. The methods of proposal for policy choices. Different perspectives of decision-making process analysis. Policy instruments and implementation. Legitimacy, policy actors and lobbing. Methods of policy evaluation and monitoring. Valuing policies, different monitoring.

Learning outcomes in the course

Upon completing the course the student:
- orientates the literature of policy making;
- understands the model of the policy making process and the logic of its stages, and is able to understand and analyse public policy within the framework of policy making process;
- presents and argues their research findings.

Teacher

Kersten Kattai

The course is a prerequisite

Public Policy Analysis (RIT6034.YK)

Study programmes containing that course