153-0410/01 – 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 | 2010/2011 | 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 be able to:
- assess the role and sense of public policy in society,
- explain the concept of structure of public policy and approaches to defining partial public policies.
Skills – you will be able to:
- characterize the importance of public policy for social practice,
- define the public interest as a public policy objective,
- break down and apply the criteria, procedures and methods of partial public policies.
Habits - you get:
- quality basis about participants in public policy, resp. partial public policies,
- understanding of the role of citizen (civil society) in participation in enforcement of public interest in public policies.
After ending of the course, students will:
- differentiate, compare and be able to identify the concept of policy and public policy,
- be able to conclude partial matters relating to public policy,
- appreciate the role of public policy and state differences of partial public policies,
- plan, design and formulate different approaches to designing public policies,
- be able to defend the content and objectives of public policy,
- be able to compare different approaches to implementing public policies,
- discuss the benefits of public policy in people's lives.
Teaching methods
Lectures
Individual consultations
Summary
The course acquaints students with various theoretical and methodological approaches used in the analysis, design and application of selected public policies, including defining the appropriate fields of their applications. In detail there are discussed some of the theories on which public policy is based on or linked to them. In the application section describes some public policies applied either together across the EU (agriculture, trade, transport, foreign and security, budget) or within the scope of the EU and the Member States - ie the community policies (social, environmental, trade, energy, etc .).
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.
Way of continuous check of knowledge in the course of semester
Students solve and send corresponding tasks via Moodle system.
E-learning
The course is created by e-learning form in Moodle system.
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
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