PL SC 490
Sample Syllabus
Sample Lesson
Introduction
Definition of Public Policy Implementation
Definition of Public Policy Implementation, continued
The Relationship between Policy Design and Policy Implementation
The Bureaucracy – The Major Policy Actor of the Implementation Process
Challenges and Pitfalls of Policy Implementation
Definition of Public Policy Evaluation
Four Types of Policy Evaluation: Process and Outcome
Four Types of Policy Evaluation: Impact and Cost-Benefit
Seven Important Barriers to Effective Policy Evaluation
Seven Important Barriers to Effective Policy Evaluation, continued
Essential Activities in the Evaluation Process
Internal and External Policy Evaluators
Definition of Public Policy Change and Termination
Factors Necessitating Policy Change
Policy Termination
Summary

Essential Activities in the Evaluation Process

Essential Activities in the Evaluation Process

  • Identification of goals and objectives of the program or policy to make measurement possible.
  • Comprehension of the mission statement or noting the absence of one.
  • Construction of an analytic model of what hte program or policy is expected to achieve; this includes a set of theoretical propositions about means-ends relatinoships.
  • Development of a research design to distinguish program or policy goals from what is actually achieved.
  • Collection of data or actual measurement.
  • Analysis and interpretation of data.

(Theodoulou and Kofinis, 2004, p. 198)

 

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