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Handbook 1997 : Faculty of Arts : Political Science

166-225/325 Public Policy - Making in Australia

Credit Points:

16.7 2nd and 3rd year

Prerequisite/s:

Normally 25 points of first-year Politics; students with only 12.5 points in Politics may apply to the 2nd/3rd-year coordinator.

Timetable:

Semester 1

Contact:

One 2-hour lecture and a 1-hour tutorial a week

Content:

This subject explores the means by which Australian society is steered, reproduced and reorganised through policy making. The key structures of policy making - political economy and culture - are mapped through a direct engagement in critical case studies from the Australian context. Analysis will focus upon the role of the actor in securing change or resistance in policy engagements and students will be encouraged to undertake their own case studies.

Assessment:

Essay work or equivalent totalling 5000 words.

Prescribed Texts:

  • Mark Considine, Public Policy: A Critical Approach
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