Course Info

Length: 1 Week

Type: In Classroom

Available Dates

Venue

  • Oct-14-2024

    Istanbul

  • Oct-14-2024

    Kuala Lumpur

  • Oct-21-2024

    Singapore

  • Oct-21-2024

    Paris

  • Oct-28-2024

    Barcelona

  • Oct-28-2024

    Dubai

  • Nov-04-2024

    London

  • Nov-04-2024

    Amsterdam

  • Nov-11-2024

    Istanbul

  • Nov-11-2024

    Kuala Lumpur

  • Nov-18-2024

    Paris

  • Nov-18-2024

    Singapore

  • Nov-25-2024

    Barcelona

  • Nov-25-2024

    Dubai

  • Dec-02-2024

    Amsterdam

  • Dec-02-2024

    London

  • Dec-09-2024

    Istanbul

  • Dec-09-2024

    Kuala Lumpur

  • Dec-16-2024

    Singapore

  • Dec-16-2024

    Paris

  • Dec-23-2024

    Barcelona

  • Dec-23-2024

    Amsterdam

  • Dec-30-2024

    Dubai

  • Dec-30-2024

    London

Course Details

Course Outline

5 days course

The significance and goals of public policy

• Using game theory to analyze public policy.

• Understand the importance of public policy in society.

• Understand the significance of theoretical and empirical models in understanding public policy.

• Goals of public policy

• Recognizing market failures.

• Distinguishing between public and private goods.

Interactions between people and strategic interactions

• Determine the rationality assumption.

• Explain the concept of limited rationality and its importance in studying human behaviour.

• Explain the fundamental notions of balance.

• Be familiar with typical strategy games.

• Factors that contributed to the collapse of negotiating.

Institutions and public policy

• How businesses may respond to market failures.

• Fundamental institutional theory prerequisites

• Justifications for agency inactivity and evasion.

• Outlines the broad policy answers to the manager's and agent's challenges.

• Vertical and horizontal integration costs and advantages

• How institutions may solve issues of public policy.

Quantitative abilities in public policy

• Data analysis and description methods, as well as acquiring the fundamental logic underpinning statistical analysis

• Basic statistical ideas.

• Be familiar with probability distributions and the central limit theorem.

• The connection between statistical uncertainty and public policy.

• The significance of regression and its relationship to public policy issues.

• Apply statistical knowledge to interpret policy statements.

Evaluation of Public Policy

• Key concepts in effective assessment and experimental design.

• The fundamental difficulty of causal inference.

• Emphasize the significance of effect evaluation in public policy.

• Difficulties in performing impact evaluations.

• Evaluation of the experimental design to determine its impact.

Policy communication

• Practical knowledge and abilities for effective policy communication.

• Distinguish between different types of data visualization, such as spread charts and histograms.

• The utility of data visualizations in public policy messaging

Operations in public policy

• The policy cycle's stages and the political considerations that influence each step

• The significance of establishing the plan in public policy.

• Define the components of a multi-stream agenda-setting strategy.

• Differentiating between gradual and non-gradual policy decision-making.

• Common flaws in the process of implementing public policy.

• Examine the policy's influence on the evaluation process.

• Conduct research on strategies for each step of the policy cycle.

Accountability, representation, and public policy

• The significance of political representation and accountability.

• Recognizing the many kinds of political representation.

• Distinguishing between selection and approval in the context of electoral responsibility.

• Distinguishing between examples of vertical, horizontal, and societal responsibility.

• The influence of special interest groups on public policy.

• Criticism of anti-corruption policies.

Policies of public policy

• The influence of constitutional systems on public policy.

• The influence of election system disparities on public policy.

• The impact of the contrasts between the parliamentary and presidential systems on public policy.

• The impact of a veto player on the policy's result.

• Examining how electoral incentives influence government expenditures.

• Decentralization's impact.

• Assess the impact of institutional change on the result of public policy.

Government Policy Challenges

• Apply what you've learned in this course to real-world political scenarios.

• Policy solution comparison.

• Examining real-world political case studies

• Make public policy decisions based on the findings of the impact assessment.

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