Бакалавриат
2025/2026
Введение в публичную политикy
Статус:
Курс обязательный (Международная программа «Международные отношения и глобальные исследования»)
Кто читает:
Факультет мировой экономики и мировой политики
Где читается:
Факультет мировой экономики и мировой политики
Когда читается:
1-й курс, 3, 4 модуль
Охват аудитории:
для своего кампуса
Преподаватели:
Ульданов Артём Александрович
Язык:
английский
Кредиты:
3
Контактные часы:
48
Course Syllabus
Abstract
This course introduces students to the field of public policy. It is focused on a comprehensive process of forming, implementing, and analyzing decisions aimed at solving socially significant problems. The course examines public policy as a cycle that includes agenda setting, policy alternative development and formulation, decision-making, implementation, evaluation and feedback. During the course, we will discuss the role of key actors (state institutions, media, expert communities, interest groups, social movements), the institutional frameworks themselves, and theoretical approaches that are designed to analyze policy processes.
Learning Objectives
- The purpose of the course is to familiarize students with the current theoretical approaches to public policy and to provide them with a systemic understanding of how policymaking is organized in different circumstances and contexts. Students will be introduced to theoretical frameworks and learn to apply them to analyze specific cases from various fields (social, environmental, security, etc.). This allows for the development of critical thinking, analytical skills in working with information, and better grasp of different peculiarities associated with policy processes
Expected Learning Outcomes
- The student is familiar with the basic theoretical approaches in the field of public sphere.
- Illustrates public policy crowdsourcing and collaboration technologies.
- The acquaintance with basic notions of media sphere, public sphere, theories of discourse and speech acts
- Know and understand the concept of evidence-based policymaking
- Know and understand the Policy Cycle Theory and be able to apply it
- Know different definitions of public policy, know the differences between policy, politics and polity
- Employ evidence from different sources in conducting an analysis of an issue
- To analyze discourses and narratives
- Identify the various theoretical approaches for explaining important changes in public policy
- Know the features and limitations of contemporary approaches to the study of governance and public policy
- To differentiate between existing definitions of public policy
- To comprehend features and limitations of contemporary approaches to the study of public policy
- To identify the various theoretical approaches for explaining policy change and stability
- To be able to describe the interconnections between the public sector, private sector and civil society
- To be able to use the basic concepts and approaches attributed to the studies of public sphere and deliberative democracy
- To be able to apply the Policy Cycle Model in the analysis of policy processes
- To recognize the differences between the stages of the policy cycle
- To assess how policies in different areas frame issues and construct different target populations that are supposed to be affected by these policies
- To employ evidence from different sources in conducting an analysis of an issue
- To be able to analyze policies from an evidence-based standpoint
Course Contents
- What is public policy (and what it is not)
- The evolution of approaches to the study of public policy: the market and the polis
- The public sphere, civic participation, and deliberative democracy.
- The policy cycle framework: from stage models to more adaptive and flexible approaches
- Social construction of target populations and the role of discourse in public policy
- Policy advice, expertise and evidence-based policymaking
Assessment Elements
- The final examIndividual oral exam where we will discuss different aspects of policymaking process and questions related to the frameworks/approaches that were studied during the course
- Group projectIn small groups (3-4 members) students are supposed to apply the policy cycle framework to a policy case of their own choice. They must describe all the stages, highlight policy dynamics and explain the role of stakeholders involved
- Participation in seminars and seminar discussions
Interim Assessment
- 2025/2026 4th module0.25 * Group project + 0.25 * Participation in seminars and seminar discussions + 0.5 * The final exam
Bibliography
Recommended Core Bibliography
- Araral, E. (2013). Routledge Handbook of Public Policy. New York: Routledge. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=513571
- Fives, A., & Breen, K. (2016). Philosophy and Political Engagement : Reflection in the Public Sphere. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1216680
- Politics and public policy, Van Horn, C. E., 2001
- Rochefort, D. A. (1997). Studying Public Policy: Policy Cycles and Policy Subsystems. By Howlett Michael and Ramesh M.. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1995. 239p. $28.00. American Political Science Review, (02), 455. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsrep&AN=edsrep.a.cup.apsrev.v91y1997i02p455.456.21
Recommended Additional Bibliography
- The Oxford handbook of public policy, , 2006