Though, it has just started in Pakistan and getting pace with public and private sector universities. Are we ready for this discipline ? How we should teach this course to get maximum outcomes ?
There are different debates on this issue. Some suggest it should have a major component of quantitative and economics, where some believes that it should be Political Science and leadership focused, and some some believes that it should be technology focused.
"The Harris School of Public Policy Studies at the University of Chicago has a more quantitative and economics approach to policy, the Heinz College at Carnegie Mellon uses computational and empirical methods, while the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and the Trent Lott Public Policy Leadership Institute at the University of Mississippi have a more political science and leadership based approach. The Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs provides traditional public policy training with multidisciplinary concentrations available in the environmental sciences and nonprofit management. The interdisciplinary Engineering and Public Policy department at Carnegie Mellon addresses problems in public and industrial policy in which the technical details are of central importance." source:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_policy
National Defence University - Department of Government and Public Policy is not an exception in this regard. We are interested to learn that what mix we should offer to our students.
Is our program at NDU is Political Science and Leadership focused like Kennedy School of Government and Public Policy ? or Quantitative and Economic focused like Harris School of Public Policy Studies ? or Technology focused like Carnegie Mellon Heinz School?
our program at ndu is quantitative and economic focused like Harris School of Public Policy Studies.
ReplyDeletea leadership component must be included in the degree program.
Public policy is the multidisciplinary subject, different school of thoughts use different terminologies to get maximum outcomes,as we also know that each school of thoughts has its own pros&cons, but in my point of view Harris school of Public policy studies at the university of Chicago use better terminology better than others by focusing quantitative and economic approach, thats why it is also known as Chicago school of economics,so our program at ndu should focus on economic based, and if teachers are willing to have some amendments in courses, they should, because they are professional , highly qualified and know better than a student,
ReplyDeletei think Public policy is all about comparative study of wellbeing of people. but wellbeing is subjective! how can we say a person is well-off or wellbeing, if with food, dress, and shelter, then how much food, how kind of dress, how kind of shelter? guys it is very interesting! a very beautiful house in F7 is a shelter for somebody, a slum in F6 is also a shelter for a person living there... so what to provide is impotent but how much to provide is more impotent.
ReplyDeletehere the economic or the quantitative approach (quantitative analysis) for problem solution is not enough, there should be the understanding of sociological conditions is very impotent, so there should be Sociology as a compulsory course. hope u agree with me