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Terminated in academic year 2012/2013

Public Policy

Type of study Follow-up Master
Language of instruction Czech
Code 153-0410/02
Abbreviation VP
Course title Public Policy
Credits 4
Coordinating department Department of Public Economics
Course coordinator prof. Ing. Dušan Halásek, CSc.

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.

E-learning

The course is created by e-learning form in Moodle system.

Literature

Little, I.M.D. ethics, Economics and Politics. Principles of Public Policy. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. 162 pp. ISBN 0-19-926872-X(pbk).

Advised 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.