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166-041 Designing Public Policy for Australia | |
Note | Formerly available as 166-270/370. Students who have completed 166-270/370 are not eligible to enrol in this subject. |
Credit Points | 12.5 |
HECS Band | 1 |
Coordinator | Bruce Headey |
Prerequisites | Usually 25 points of first year politics or entry into Bachelor of Public Policy and Management. Students with only 12.5 points in politics may apply to the second/third year coordinator. |
Semester | 2 (view timetable) |
Contact | 30 contact hours per semester. Two 1-hour lectures per week for 10 weeks and a 1-hour tutorial per week for 10 weeks. The lecture and tutorial programs are staggered and cover the 12 weeks of semester |
Subject Description | In this subject recent debates and reforms in Australian and Victorian public policy and public sector management will be analysed. Topics include welfare policy, health policy, unemployment and gender issues. Major changes in the public sector, including privatisation and contracting out of services, will be assessed. Students will be encouraged to design and evaluate policy proposals. On completion of the subject students should: have an understanding of how to design policies which are socially effective, economically efficient and political feasible; have learned how to evaluate the benefits and costs of public policies and of changes in public sector management. |
Assessment | An essay or project of 2000 words and a 2-hour examination. |
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