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Presentation Chapter Four Power Points New pps5011
Presentation Chapter Four Power Points New pps5011
Presentation Chapter Four Power Points New pps5011
MAKING PROCESS
Stages of public policy development
Agenda setting
What is Agenda?
– Many of the issues that draw the attention of legislative are not
likely to be discussed widely in the public.
– Because the public’s cognizance or identification of policy issues
is low.
– Awareness and information are mostly confined to a narrow
segment of the public known as “attentive public”
Cont…
• Systemic agenda:
Interest Groups
Administrative Agencies (professional &
(Career officials and political corporate
appointees ) representatives)
Reflective questions
1. Who sets agenda in Ethiopian reality?
• Table 7.1
1.The goals of the policy
• Categories of goals
Equity
Efficiency
Security
Liberty
– Mechanical cause
– Accidental cause
– Intentional cause
– Inadvertent cause
The Causal Model Revisited
3. Policy Tools/Instruments
• Who, what, and how to carry out the designed policy into
action.
• Who, what, and how to carry out the designed policy into
action
2. Performance evaluations
• Examine program outputs rather than inputs ,such as
number of patients seen ,number of children taught
Within governments
• Usually conducted by the primary agency in charge of
implementing the policy.
– Most governments also have central agencies with
exclusive or major evaluation responsibilities ,such
as Government Accountability Office, Auditor
General, etc
• Is a costy process