MPA Subject Course

1. Presented by:
JERALD M.LADRINGAN
MPA 2020-2021
THE
OF
NATURE
PUBLIC POLICY
DR. LIBERTY R. MENDAÑA
Subject Professor, PPPA
Public Policy and Program Implementation

2. • public policies are governmental
decisions, and are actually the
result of activities which the
government undertakes in
pursuance of certain goals and
objectives.
The Nature Of Public Policy

3. 1) Public Policies are goal
oriented.
• Public policies are
formulated and
implemented
• to attain the objectives
which the government
has in view for the
betterment of the public
2) Public policy is the
outcome of the
government's
collective actions.
• pattern or course of
activity or' the
governmental officials and
actors in a collective
sense than being termed
as their discrete and
segregated decisions
3) Public policy is what
the government
actually decides or
chooses to do.
• the relationship of the
government units to the
specific field of political
environment in a given
administrative system.
• variety of forms like law,
ordinances, court
decisions, executive
orders, decisions etc.
4) Public policy may be
positive or negative.
• POSITIVELY IF depicts
the concern of the
government and involves
its action to a particular
problem on which the
policy is made.
• Negatively, involves
decisions by the
governmental officials
regarding not taking any
action on a particular
issue
The Nature Of Public Policy

4. Nature and Scope of Public policy
1. The authoritative allocation of values for a society
2. The process of deciding who gets what, when, where and how
3. What the government chooses to do or not to do about a specific problem
4. Establish the boundaries of our freedom and color the contours of our interactions
with other people in our political, social and economic systems.

5. CHARACTERISTICS
OF PUBLIC POLICY
1. It is purposive
and goal oriented
2• Public policies are
made up by public
authorities
3 • Public policy
consists of set of
pattern of action
taken over time
4• Public policy is
a product of
demand
5 • Government
directed course
of actions
6 • It can be
positive or
negative

6. The
importance of
public policy
It avails
learners to
understand
what public policies are,
How they are made,
The politics involved in
formulating them,
The theoretical models for
analyzing policies
The impact they have on the
citizens

7. The importance of
public policy (ctd)
• it helps to know the intentions of the
government for a particular sector, depart.
• the public can measure the achievements
made by the government
• Helps to respond to the needs of the society
• For scientific understanding of the course and
effect relationship

8. Some public
policy areas
•
Educati
on
policy
• Social
welfare
policy
• Health
care
policy
•
Criminal
justice
policy
• Social
policy

9. Policy
• a plan of action for tackling political issues.
• often initiated by a political party in government,
• reforms and changes by interested actors (opposition parties and
lobby groups
Political
system
(Gabriel Almond)
• a set of interactions having structures,
• each of which performs its functions in order
to keep it like an on-going concern,
• it is a set of processes that routinely converts
inputs into outputs
Policy making
process
• is a part of politics and
political action.
Relationship
Between Politics And
Public Policies

10. https://www.slideshare.net/denissanchawa/public-policy-an-introduction