PSCI 4407
Public Policy: Content and Creation
The content and creation of public policy. Focus on the explanation, prediction and design of policy. Perspectives and examples are drawn from a variety of frameworks and from both Canadian and non-Canadian contexts.
Undated
Readings
- through the publisher.
- Goodin, Rein & Moran (2006). The public and its policies. In M. Moran, M. Rein & R.E. Goodin. Eds. The Oxford Handbook of Public Policy. Oxford: OUP. [E-book available via university library]
- Hassel A. (2015). Public Policy. International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, Second Edition, Volume 19, pp. 569-575 [E-book available via university library]
- Stone, D. (2012). The Market and the Polis, in Policy Paradox: The Art of Political Decision Making, 3rd ed., pp. 19-36. New York: W. W. Norton and Co.
- Cairney, Chapter 3 (Power and Public Policy), pp. 46-68 Crawford N.C. (2009). Homo politicus and argument (nearly) all the way down: Persuasion in politics.
- Bachrach, P., & Baratz, M. S. (1962). Two faces of power. American Political Science Review, 56(4): 947- 952.
- McFarland, A. (2015). Power. International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, Second Edition, Volume 19, pp. 760-764 [E-book available via McOdrum]
- Torgerson, D. (1986). Between knowledge and politics: Three faces of policy analysis. Policy Sciences 19(1): 33-59.
- financial crisis. Journal of European Public Policy, 22(2), 219-237. DOI: 10.1080/13501763.2014.994023
Prerequisites & course information
Prerequisite(s): Fourth-year Honours standing or permission of the Department, and one of PSCI 2401 , PSCI 3402 , PSCI 3405 , PSCI 3409, or PAPM 2001 and PAPM 2002 . Seminar three hours a week.