The course Public Policies aims for students to understand the appropriateness of a scientific analysis of various government initiatives with budgetary costs. This includes identifying the actors involved, their motivations, their possibilities for action, their strategies, the decision-making process, the choice of different implementation methods for each public policy, and finally, the necessity to carry out an evaluation of these initiatives.
UNIT 1: Public Policies and Economy
Topic 1: Introduction to Public Policies
1.1 Concept of public policies
1.2 Political economy
Topic 2: Transformation of the Role of the State in the Economy
2.1 Liberal state and welfare state
2.2 Ideological debates around social policies
2.3 Necessity of the public sector
2.4 Actions of public power: allocation, stabilization, and redistribution
2.5 Main forms of public intervention in the economy
UNIT 2: Phases of Public Policies
Topic 3: Agents Involved in Public Policies
3.1 Map of actors
3.2 Interest groups
3.3 Institutional distribution of competencies
Topic 4: Political Agenda and Decision-Making
4.1 Configuration of the agenda
4.2 Programming and decision-making
4.3 Legitimacy of decisions
4.4 Decision process and foreseeable results
Topic 5: Policy Development
5.1 Changes in the bureaucratic model
5.2 Innovations in policy implementation
5.3 Confluence between management and politics
Topic 6: Evaluation of Public Policies
6.1 Concept and purpose of evaluation
6.2 Object of evaluation
6.3 Active subject of evaluation
6.4 Types of evaluation
6.5 Means of regulation and accountability
6.6 Institutionalization of public policy evaluation
Ordinary Call:
To be evaluated in the ordinary call, students must have completed all the activities subject to evaluation. These activities must be submitted by the deadlines indicated by the professor. If, for a duly justified and communicated reason, they cannot be submitted within the period, they may be submitted before the exam date so that the professor can grade them, although the professor is not obliged to provide feedback on these activities.
Students have the right to take the final written exam even if they have not submitted all the other activities, but the final grade will only be calculated if all activities have been submitted according to the evaluation criteria and weightings established in this teaching guide. Failure to submit or complete any activity will be recorded as "Not presented" in the exam record.
Extraordinary Call:
The evaluation criteria are the same as for the ordinary call, so all evaluation activities considered during the course must be submitted. The grades of activities already completed (including the final written exam) will be kept while pending activities are completed. The same weighting criteria as in the ordinary evaluation will apply. This measure is only valid during the current academic year. Failure to pass the extraordinary call will require retaking the entire course upon re-enrollment.
Final exam: 50%
Assignments: 35%
Participation: 15%
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