Comparative Public Policy

(3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

The course introduces students to debates in public policy and then examines the changing nature public policy provision in a number of policy areas: Civil service reform, education, welfare, the environment, food safety and financial regulation. In general terms the case studies draw on experience from the anglo-saxon public policy world (Ireland, the UK, New Zealand and Australia). The course seeks to explore the rise of state intervention in the post war period under the aegis of the Keynesian welfare state and attempts at reform thereafter that have been informed by the ideas of the New Right.