153-0410/03 – Public Policy (VP)

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.

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 .).

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