Public Policy

Public Policy

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According to Sapru (2004 , `Public Policy ' as an academic pursuit emerged in the beginning of 1950s and since then it has been acquiring new dimensions , and is struggling hard to acknowledge the status of a discipline in the comity of social sciences . As a study of products of government , policy forms a significant component in many a course and programme in numerous disciplines - political science , public administration , economics , management . So rapid is the growth that many researchers , teachers , public administrators now feel that it

is becoming more and more unmanageable . The disciplines need to comprehend public policy cut right across the old academic lines of demarcation Indeed it is this interdisciplinary quality which makes the field of public policy interesting and thought provoking

`Public policy ' is a concept now much in vogue . It is frequently used term in our daily life and in our academic literature , where we often make references to the national health policy , the new education policy , wage policy , agricultural policy , American or French foreign policy and so on . It is an area which had to do with those spheres which are so labelled as public . The concept of public policy presupposes that there is a domain of life which is not private or purely individual , but held in common

Thomas Dye , a leading scholar of policy analysis , says Traditional (political science ) studies described the institutions in which public policy was formulated . BUT unfortunately the linkages between important institutional arrangements and the...