Overview

To view overview information, please select an offering from the drop-down menu above.

Academic contacts

To view unit coordinator information, please select an offering from the drop-down menu above.

Offerings

MURDOCH-S1-EXT-2022-ONGOING
MURDOCH-S1-INT-2022-ONGOING
MURDOCH-S2-EXT-2021-2021
MURDOCH-S2-INT-2018-2021

To view more information about assessments, contacts and learning activities specific to one of these offerings, please select an offering from the drop-down menu above.

Enrolment rules

Enrolment in Master of Public Policy and Management, Master of Development Studies, Master of International Affairs or Master of International Affairs and Security, Master of Health Administration, Policy and Leadership or Master of Health Policy and Leadership.

Other learning activities

To view other learning activity information, please select an offering from the drop-down menu above.

Learning activities

To view learning activity information, please select an offering from the drop-down menu above.

Learning outcomes

1.
The ability to demonstrate advanced knowledge of the public policy process
2.
The ability to link policy process and policy design with policy theory
3.
The capacity to conceptualise theoretical approaches to policy problems
4.
The capacity to understand contemporary policy theory

Assessments

To view assessment information, please select an offering from the drop-down menu above.

Additional information

Unit content:

The key academic debates covered in this unit include: 

  • The relationship between public policy practice and policy theory 
  • The link between policy problems and policy design
  • Analysing policy learning and policy change.
  • Political power and multiple streams framework 
  • Advocacy coalitions, lobbyists and stakeholders
  • Economics, budgets and punctuated equilibrium