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- Public Policies:
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Public policies are decisions of government. They come as a result of the activities of government directed at achieving certain objectives.
- Politics:
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refers to how decisions are allocated authoritatively in the society.
- Policy cycle:
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refers to a framework which suggests that the policymaking process develops through stages of activities involving decision-makers, and through which a policy proposal is developed and implemented.
Introduction
Governments across the globe want to achieve specified objectives in education, health, agriculture, transportation, housing, environment, and other sectors of the economy to affect people’s lives positively. Citizens of a particular country may desire many things and government being the representative of the people is obliged to do those things through the instrumentalities of public policies. Inherent in the concept of public policy is the notion and...
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Quadri, M.O. (2020). Public Policy and Politics. In: Farazmand, A. (eds) Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31816-5_187-1
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