90-842 Public Policy Implementation
6 units, Carnegie Mellon University
Presidents governors legislators elected officials and judges have issued orders passed laws approved policies and set goals for hundreds of years. But approving or legislating the most enlightened public policy or program does not guarantee that it will be implemented in an effective way or even in the way intended by the policy maker. Rarely are the people who make public policy decisions the ones who implement those decisions. In a democratic government saying it is does not make it so This course is designed to study review and analyze policy implementation in the public sector. This is a look at government bureaucracy In a democratic society how does one effectively get from the declaration of a policy to its implementation particularly when implementation has been such a low priority for our elected officials Implementation involves the complex interactions of many elements translating ideas into workable programs making decisions for both program design and operation communicating with both constituencies and affected decisionmakers overcoming the resistance of bureaucrats and assessing and evaluating the results. Examples of programs and policies will be used throughout the course. Each student as a member of a team will develop an implementation plan for a selected policy or program. The course will also involve lots of reading that highlight implementation issues. a hrefhttpwww.heinz.cmu.eduacademicresourcescourseresultscoursedetailsindex.aspxcid127...Read Morea
Prerequisites: none listed
Courseweave needs JavaScript to show sections, workloads and planning tools.