Akademik Dersler - İçerik

Weeks	Topics
Week - 1	Core concepts of the public policy process and contributing actors; Sequential Policy Process Framework (Stages Model); analytical model of policymaking; Systems Approach and Causal Funnel; early theoretical approaches; Multiple Streams Framework (MSF) and Policy Regime Approach; modern theoretical frameworks of public policy;
Week - 2	Core concepts of the public policy process; actors contributing to the public policy process; Sequential Policy Process Framework (Stages Model); Systems Approach; Causal Funnel; Multiple Streams Framework (MSF); Policy Regime Approach;
Week - 3	National and international actors in the public policy process; national actors; formal actors: legislature, executive, judiciary; informal actors: political parties, citizens, media, civil society organizations, think tanks; Presidential Government System; policy councils and offices; new policy actors;
Week - 4	Early stages of the public policy process; agenda universe; public agenda; political/government agenda; decision agenda; issue framing; problem definition; importance of problem definition; Multiple Streams Model: problem stream, policy stream, politics stream; policy monopolies;
Week - 5	Exam Preparation
Week - 6	Exam Preparation II
Week - 7	Mid-Term Exam
Week - 8	Policy formulation process; policy alternatives; identification of alternatives; policy formulation; policy evaluation; policy goals and values: efficiency, equity; policy cycle; types of policy: distributive policies, redistributive policies, regulatory policies; techniques for evaluating alternatives; Cost-Benefit Analysis; Cost-Effectiveness Analysis;
Week - 9	Legitimacy; legality; decision-making; policy adoption process; actors in the adoption and enactment process; legislature; cabinet; bureaucrats; adoption stage; agenda-setting stage; policy formulation stage; implementation stage; evaluation stage; relationships among stages of the policy process;
Week - 10	Context and importance of the implementation stage; implementation as the most critical stage; feasibility; Top-Down implementation model; Bottom-Up implementation model; policy analysts: technician, politician, entrepreneur; street-level bureaucrats; implementing actors; citizen participation; use of technology; contemporary implementation trends;
Week - 11	Policy evaluation; definition of evaluation: goal effectiveness, efficiency, outcomes; monitoring; distinction between evaluation and monitoring; types of evaluation: pseudo evaluation, formal evaluation, decision-theoretic evaluation; administrative evaluation, judicial evaluation, scientific evaluation; evaluation methods: experimental methods, qualitative methods, economic methods, performance methods; policy change; policy termination;
Week - 12	Exam Preparation I
Week - 13	Exam Preparation II
Week - 14	Final Exam