Public Policy Analysis

Course Information

  • the date

10/03/2025

  • Duration

5 days

  • The city
  • Cost
  • Type

Online

Course details

Public policy analysis is a field of research that focuses on systematically examining public sector decision-making processes and consequences. It is a subfield of political science that studies government agencies' creation, formulation, execution, and assessment of policies.

The Public Policy Analysis course aims to improve participants' analytical skills and decision-making abilities by providing them with a solid understanding of public policy analysis's fundamental concepts and theories, emphasising analytical methods and techniques used by analysts and policymakers.

This course also equips participants with tools for public policy analysis and introduces them to quantitative and qualitative data collecting methodologies.

It also gives them the chance to put these skills to use in a real-world case study and better grasp the difficulties that come with performing public policy analysis.

Participants will have a firm grasp of the many tools utilised by policymakers throughout the world after finishing this course and practical experience using these techniques in various case studies.

في نهاية دورة تحليل السياسات، سيتمكن المشاركون من:

تحسين مهاراتهم في تطوير وتنفيذ السياسات العامة وتطوير الحلول العملية التي يمكن استخدامها في مبادرات السياسات العامة أو داخل الشركة التي يعملون بها.

إنشاء أطر تحليلية للتفكير النقدي عند تطوير السياسات العامة.

اكتساب فهم قوي للأدوات الكمية ومنهجية البحث لإجراء تقييمات الأثر القائمة على الأدلة، فضلاً عن مهارات الاتصال العملية للسياسات العامة.

الأفراد يريدون استخدام خبراتهم في صياغة السياسات القائمة على الأدلة ورصدها وتقييمها.
مديرو البرامج الذين يريدون تحسين قدراتهم في إدارة العمليات.
مديرو المشاريع المسؤولون عن إنشاء وتنفيذ المشاريع.
أولئك الذين يسعون إلى بناء أو تحسين قدراتهم في تحليل السياسات العامة أو تحسين جودة عملهم في مجال السياسات.
الأفراد الذين يتعاونون مع الحكومات والدوائر لتعزيز العمليات والأولويات.

Course outline

Introduction to Public Policy

  • Understanding the significance and purpose of public policy
  • Identifying market failures and distinguishing between public and private goods
  • Examining the role of theoretical and empirical models in analyzing and predicting policy outcomes
  • Introduction to game theory and how it is used to analyze strategic interactions between decision-makers in policy settings
  • Understanding the rationality assumption and the limited rationality concepts, and their role in policy analysis
  • Exploring typical strategy games in policy studies and factors contributing to the collapse of negotiations
  • Practical exercises on using game theory and strategy gams in policy analysis and studies

Institutions and Public Policy Implementation

  • Describing the role of institutions in shaping public policy outcomes
  • Exploring corporate strategies for addressing different market failures
  • Understanding the fundamental institutional theory prerequisites
  • Outlining different justifications for agency inactivity and evasion
  • Discussing the cost and advantages of vertical and horizontal integration
  • Discovering different methods used by institutions to solve public policy challenges
  • Real-world examples of policy failure and institutional response

Policy Analysis and Evaluation Techniques

  • Describing the significance and role of data and data analysis in public policy decision-making
  • Understanding basic statistical concepts for policy evaluation, and their relevance in policy research
  • Probability distributions
    Central limit theorem
  • Recognizing the link between statistical uncertainty and public policy
  • Exploring how regression analysis is used in public policy to predict policy impacts
  • Understanding policy assessment and experimental design concepts and policy impact evaluation methods
  • Discussing challenges in conducting impact evaluation and the difficulty of causal inference
  • Practical exercises on analyzing and interpreting policy data using basic statistical techniques

Policy Communication and Operations in Public Policy

  • Guidelines and techniques to present policy analysis findings to stakeholders
  • Exploring different types of data visualization tools used in public policy messaging (e.g. spread charts, histograms, scatter plots, and other graphical representations)
  • Describing the policy cycle’s stages and political considerations:
    • Agenda setting
    • Policy formulation
    • Adoption
    • Implementation
    • Appraisal
    • Support/ Maintenance
  • Exploring the main components of a multi-stream agenda-setting strategy
  • Key differences between gradual and non-gradual policy decision-making
  • Identifying common flaws in the process of implementing public policy
  • Practical exercise on developing a policy brief that summarizes key findings on a selected policy issue

Policy Challenges and Government Influence

  • Discussing the importance of political representation and accountability in policy-making and exploring different types of political representation
  • Understanding key concepts and considerations in electoral and societal responsibility
  • Analyzing the influence of special interest groups on public policy:
    • Lobbying
    • Advocacy
  • Discussing criticism of anti-corruption policies
  • Exploring various systems impacting the public policy and policymaking:
    • Constitutional systems
    • Election system disparities
    • Contrasts between the parliamentary and presidential systems
  • Analyzing the impact of veto players, decentralization and institutional change on public policy
  • Final presentation of policy analysis and solution

For inquiries and booking