PPPM106 - Policy Design and Analysis (Offered in 2016 - 17, T1)
This course teaches students how to systematically analyse complex policy problems and conduct policy design and formulation to address long-term challenges. The skillset students acquire in this course is generic in nature which allows them to apply these tools to different domains (e.g. Transport, Environment, Energy, Health, etc.) to solve policy problems. This makes this course crucial for policy analysts, strategists, strategic planners, programme assessors and evaluators, and professionals with functions that require long-horizon thinking and decision-making such as consultants, managers, engineers and politicians and policy makers. Relevant theories and techniques and their limitations will be covered. Some of these topics covered in the course for analysis of policy problems and designing of policy solutions are: wicked problems, dialogue mapping, actor analysis, actor networks, system mapping, problem formulation and definition of goals, objectives, and decision making criteria, information gathering, generation of a library of policy measures, analysis and selection of policy measures, multi-criteria decision making, generation of alternative solutions, and analysis of the trade-offs of the alternative policies.
