Understanding Public Policy

Understanding Public Policy

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Understanding Public Policy

In-depth understanding of the concept of public policy is essential to understand that governments do and why they are doing it referring to the particular concerns of society. Proper consideration of the public policy helps to evaluate the performance of the legislative and administrative entities. It is worthy to mention that the overall phenomenon of public policy consists of different and significant stages. It is vital for the policymakers to adopt the approach of prior research about the issue before crafting and enforcing public policy ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM CSL_CITATION {"citationID":"7hfDRrkB","properties":{"formattedCitation":"(Dunn, 2015)","plainCitation":"(Dunn, 2015)","noteIndex":0},"citationItems":[{"id":1668,"uris":["http://zotero.org/users/local/lMSdZ3dY/items/JKTNHZPJ"],"uri":["http://zotero.org/users/local/lMSdZ3dY/items/JKTNHZPJ"],"itemData":{"id":1668,"type":"book","title":"Public policy analysis","publisher":"Routledge","ISBN":"1-317-34484-7","author":[{"family":"Dunn","given":"William N."}],"issued":{"date-parts":[["2015"]]}}}],"schema":"https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json"} (Dunn, 2015). The broad idea of public policy closely linked with different factors. Understanding of these various components is essential to better develop the practice of policy in society. Here the particular focus is to critically overview the notion of public policy concerning the phase of policy analysis and the overall impact of the plan on the society.

The successful form of public policy can only achieve through by giving appropriate attention to every phase. It is one systematic process that can only achieve by considering the effective establishment of different steps. Policy analysis is one of the important components of the main idea of public policy. The facet of policy analysis further helps to effectively and efficiently meet the standards of development and implementation stages. Both the segments of development and implementation play a vigorous role to launch the suitable and aligned form of public policy for the citizens. Importance of policy analysis can never be ignored because it is referred to as the source of crucial information that influences the domains of development and policy implication.

Policy analysis is the only tool for the policymakers to figure out the actual performance of the governments. It also helps to determine the actual goal of the lawmakers from the idea of public policy. The implementation stage of the policy clearly illustrated that what is actually achieve from the establishment of any policy for the people. In other words, it can be recognized as the phase that reveals about the performance of the governments in the form of outcomes of the policy ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM CSL_CITATION {"citationID":"U6TBfq8I","properties":{"formattedCitation":"(Dye, 2002)","plainCitation":"(Dye, 2002)","noteIndex":0},"citationItems":[{"id":1656,"uris":["http://zotero.org/users/local/lMSdZ3dY/items/PXB8G573"],"uri":["http://zotero.org/users/local/lMSdZ3dY/items/PXB8G573"],"itemData":{"id":1656,"type":"book","title":"Understanding Public Policy","publisher":"Prentice Hall","URL":"https://books.google.com.pk/books?id=R5ApAQAAMAAJ","ISBN":"978-0-13-026008-6","author":[{"family":"Dye","given":"T. R."}],"issued":{"date-parts":[["2002"]]}}}],"schema":"https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json"} (Dye, 2002). Only the paradigm of policy analysis can be helpful to identify and evaluate the required information to make judgements about public policy.

The influence of public policy can explore in many different and significant forms. The overall practice of public policy based on the idea to attain and sustain the welfare of the citizens. The functioning of society can never completely measure without the articulation of public policy. Assessment of the social impact of public policy is one significant criterion to evaluate the usefulness of the policy. It is viable to analyze how commendably public policy influences the lives of people. The pattern set by the governments in the form of public policy can be a source of social change in society. The fundamental aim of the public policy identifies as the legal perspective to provide facilitation to all the citizens of the society. The features relevant to the public policy ultimately appears in the form of outcomes at a social level. Different social concerns or issues can never be sorted without the provision of the suitable public policy. The social impact of public policy can better reveal through the different aspects such as the factors of justice, environment, health, education, transportation, immigration, security, etc. All these features play a critical and imperative role in the entire functioning of the society ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM CSL_CITATION {"citationID":"21K22YAR","properties":{"formattedCitation":"(Burns & Gimpel, 2000)","plainCitation":"(Burns & Gimpel, 2000)","noteIndex":0},"citationItems":[{"id":1670,"uris":["http://zotero.org/users/local/lMSdZ3dY/items/Q8I4TN49"],"uri":["http://zotero.org/users/local/lMSdZ3dY/items/Q8I4TN49"],"itemData":{"id":1670,"type":"article-journal","title":"Economic insecurity, prejudicial stereotypes, and public opinion on immigration policy","container-title":"Political science quarterly","page":"201-225","volume":"115","issue":"2","author":[{"family":"Burns","given":"Peter"},{"family":"Gimpel","given":"James G."}],"issued":{"date-parts":[["2000"]]}}}],"schema":"https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json"} (Burns & Gimpel, 2000). All these social concerns can never be validated or properly addressed without the intervention of the government that appears in the form of public policy.

The objective of social welfare also indicates the strong influence of public policy in society. Different policy formations and strategies enforced by the government to make the lives of the citizens better. Various steps in the form of public policy are adopted by the decision-makers to enhance opportunities of employment for all the eligible citizens. Public policy issues are ultimately linked with the concerns of the citizens. Different social anticipations are used by the policymakers to formulate the public policy according to the actual needs of the citizens of the society. The concerns and issues of the society referred to the main problem which provides a basic approach of policy development and implementation offering by the policymakers.

Different forms of limitations is another crucial feature of concern associated with the approach of policies set by the government. It is critical to explore that government have a limited domain of authority under the perspective of the legal phenomenon. The feature of law restricts the power of the governments concerning the perspective of policy development and its implementation. The concept of separation of power is adapted to regulate the authority of the government that also appears in policy making and establishment ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM CSL_CITATION {"citationID":"Z82ZiZ7M","properties":{"formattedCitation":"(Campbell, 2002)","plainCitation":"(Campbell, 2002)","noteIndex":0},"citationItems":[{"id":1671,"uris":["http://zotero.org/users/local/lMSdZ3dY/items/QE7DXM9I"],"uri":["http://zotero.org/users/local/lMSdZ3dY/items/QE7DXM9I"],"itemData":{"id":1671,"type":"article-journal","title":"Ideas, politics, and public policy","container-title":"Annual review of sociology","page":"21-38","volume":"28","issue":"1","author":[{"family":"Campbell","given":"John L."}],"issued":{"date-parts":[["2002"]]}}}],"schema":"https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json"} (Campbell, 2002). Check and balance is another criteria that come into existence to identify the approach of the governments about the phenomenon of public policy.

To conclude the discussion about the comprehensive understanding of the public policy, it is significant to indicate that active consideration of different aligned domain helps useful role to determine the policy. Proper planning is mandatory which is only possible from the deep assessment of all the related aspect. The objective of identification of necessary information can only possible through the stage of policy analysis. The phase of policy analysis assists decision-makers to make their decisions according to the available information.

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ADDIN ZOTERO_BIBL {"uncited":[],"omitted":[],"custom":[]} CSL_BIBLIOGRAPHY Burns, P., & Gimpel, J. G. (2000). Economic insecurity, prejudicial stereotypes, and public opinion on immigration policy. Political Science Quarterly, 115(2), 201–225.

Campbell, J. L. (2002). Ideas, politics, and public policy. Annual Review of Sociology, 28(1), 21–38.

Dunn, W. N. (2015). Public policy analysis. Routledge.

Dye, T. R. (2002). Understanding Public Policy. Prentice Hall. Retrieved from https://books.google.com/books?id=R5ApAQAAMAAJ