153-0310/02 – Public Policy (VP)
| Gurantor department | Department of Public Economics | Credits | 4 |
| Subject guarantor | prof. Ing. Dušan Halásek, CSc. | Subject version guarantor | prof. Ing. Dušan Halásek, CSc. |
| Study level | undergraduate or graduate | Requirement | Compulsory |
| Year | 2 | Semester | winter |
| | Study language | Czech |
| Year of introduction | 1999/2000 | Year of cancellation | 2012/2013 |
| Intended for the faculties | EKF | Intended for study types | Follow-up Master |
Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences
Knowledge – you will know:
- to judge the function and the sense of the public policy in the society,
- to make clear the structure of the public policy idea and approaches to particular public policies definitions.
Skills – you will be able:
- to characterize the public policy meaning for social practices,
- to define sections of the public interest as the public policy objectives,
- to divide and exercise criteria, procedures and methods of public policies.
Habits – you will gain:
- quality base about public policy participants or particular public policies,
- awareness of citizens role during the participation on public interests enforcement into public policies.
After the completion of this subject, students will:
- distinguish, compare and be able to identify the policy and the public policy conception,
- be able to conclude particular questions relevant to the public policy,
- evaluate the public policy role and mention differences of particular public policies,
- plan, propose and form different approaches during the public policy conception,
- be able to argue the content and objectives of the public policy,
- be able to compare different approaches during the public policy implementation,
- discuss public policy gains in the life of people.
Teaching methods
Lectures
Seminars
Individual consultations
Summary
The aim of the subject is oriented towards the description of the kinds of
theoretic and metodologic approaches which are used in analysis and creation
of each public policy, including its specification.
Compulsory literature:
Recommended literature:
Bogason, P. Public Policy and Local Governance. University Press,
Cambridge, 2000.
Braun,D., Busch, A. Public Policy. Political Ideas. Edward Elgar Publishing,
Inc., 1999.
Middleton, R. Government versus the Market.University Press, Cambridge, 1996.
Parsons, W. Public policy. Cheltenham: Edvard Elgar Publishing Ltd.,1995.
Peters, B.G. Public Policy Instruments. Edward Elgar Publising, Inc., 1998.
Way of continuous check of knowledge in the course of semester
During the semester, students actively perform predeterminated topics.
E-learning
Other requirements
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Prerequisities
Subject has no prerequisities.
Co-requisities
Subject has no co-requisities.
Subject syllabus:
1. Defining public policy as a science discipline and as social practice. The birth of public policy in the Czech Republic, areas of interests of public policy, definition of subject.
2. Public policy local, national, european, world, global.
3. Theory of bureaucracy and organizational theory. Market, government and civil sector as regulators of social life. Relationship between public policy and the theory of bureaucracy, bureaucracy models, sociological and political science approach.
4. The role of other science disciplines in public policy, such as: sociology, political science, economics, law, psychology, geography. Public administration institutions as mechanisms of implementation of public interest, politics as a conflict to promote differentiated interests.
5. Ethics and normative models of public policy. Tradition of society and development of values, models of public policies, definition of the relationship between the regulators of social life.
6. Selected public policies common to all EU states.
7. – 9. Selected community public policies (national and EU).
10. Law as an instrument of public policy. Relationship of law, politics and morality, legal relations, objects, subjects.
11. Implementation of policies. The method to achieve the objectives, theoretical models of implementation, implementation of policies as a political process.
12. Public interest and public policy. The concept of public interest, individual and social genesis, the process of application of public interest.
13. The role of stakeholders in the implementation of public interest. The issue of elites in public policy. Basic groups of participants and their roles. The concept of elite, elite theory, lobbying.
Conditions for subject completion
Occurrence in study plans
Occurrence in special blocks
Assessment of instruction