ADS654 : Policy analysis / Faculty of Administrative Science & Policy Studies

This course utilizes an interdisciplinary approach which incorporates political science, economics, socio-psychology, and management science techniques. The Political science components emphasizes process and feasibility, the economics component emphasizes deduction and optimization, social psychology component emphasizes experimentation and attitudes and management science and research techniques are used as methods of policy analysis and evaluation. The course addresses a number of issues ranging from public problems, agenda setting, policy cycle, policy recommendation, policy evaluation to policy termination and forecasting techniques.