DUNIA mEnDaN

dari ChangkatNingkeBTP Dear Learners  (Public Policy Analysis), Bachelor Degree (Hons) in Political Science OUM I refer to Chapter 2 Politics & Policy in the Online Module. Need your feedback and comments : Is politics and policy making a matter of expert knowledge? Is there a tension between expert knowledge and democratic representation in the political process? If so, under what conditions is that tension present and absent.

dari ChangkatNingkeBTP * OUM Political Science Learners please go to the e-forum via h ttp://lms.oum.edu.my/loginft.php Public Policy A nalysis  is the monitoring of different government agendas that directly affect a specific community. The kinds of topics examined can vary from the impact of infrastructure on a city to smoking laws. The idea behind  public   policy   analysis  is to provide the government with facts and statistics about the extent to which such initiatives are working. Legislators who seek to pass specific laws and government officials who work toward their application may be particularly interested in  public   policy   analysis . This is often because, when social problems arise, it is up to such  policy  makers to find proper solutions. Vandalism, poor student performance in schools, high crime rates, environmental problems, and traffic collisions are some of the many examples of problems that are often addres...

dari ChangkatNingkeBTP 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 ...

dari ChangkatNingkeBTP Dear Learners taking Open University Malaysia's Bachelor of Political Science with Honours . Please take note that online forum have been updated. This forum is to facilitate learning & sharing processes throughout this Semester May 2012. Please explore all learning materials available in the OUM Student Portal via LMS OUM . I will also in the midst of updating alls  necessaries notes and links which will surely benefit blended-based students. Assignment has also been uploaded in the site and a certain date of submission. Wish you all dear Learners all the success in the world and beyond. " Do not follow where the path may lead.  Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail ."   ( Harold R. McAlindon ) Best regards, Hamdan M Salleh