ABKF2203 PUBLIC POLICY ANALYSIS - Assignment Topic

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dateline: 9th July 2012

The INFO:

Public policy is about making decisions.  These decisions are by no mean easy because values, ideologies and politics are involved.  Under these trying circumstances, public policy analysts and policy makers are required to make decisions.  For instance, policy decision has to be made on whether to terminate the Internal Security Act (ISA), to abolish the Universities & University Colleges Act (AUKU), to enact a new legislation on polluters pay for polluting the environment and to introduce the 1Malaysia health care plan.  When these decisions are made, they are being made in a socially changing and politically loaded environments.

PURPOSE

The purpose of this individual assignment is to gauge a student’s overall understanding on the concepts and approaches to public policy analysis and to expose students to the methods of policy analysis based on a current issue or problem

REQUIREMENTS

The assignment should cover the following two scopes:

Scope 1:

Critically discuss the different approaches to public policy analysis

Scope 2:

Using one of the issue or problem mentioned above, or identifying one current public policy issue of your own choice, describe how this particular issue can be analyzed using one of the approaches as discussed in Scope 1.

                                                                                           [Total: 30 marks]

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