ANALYTICAL OVERVIEW OF POLICY FORMATION

ANALYTICAL OVERVIEW OF POLICY FORMATION Discussion Paper: ­ Analytical overview of policy formation. Undertake a critical discussion of policy formation based on the readings and lecture presentations. Your discussion will address the following questions: · What is policy? · Who makes policy? · What does policy aim to achieve? · How does it work? · Who/what does it affect? Your discussion is primarily a theoretical discussion of policy formation and implementation, focussed on the above points and illustrated with examples from policy areas. It is not a critique of a particular area of policy or of a particular policy; the focus is on the process of formation and implementation. In order to complete this assignment students must: · Complete the allocated readings (I'll upload those readings) · Focus the discussion on policy formation and implementation · Use examples from lecture presentations to illustrate arguments · Follow academic convention of drawing on readings to support the discussion points · Produce a Discussion Paper that is well written and referenced