Module Four: Policy Communities
Learning Objectives
At the conclusion of your participation in Module 4, you should be able to:
- Analyse drivers, needs and interests of communities.
- Analyse and compare alternative policy development and delivery cases.
- Explain the policy life cycle.
- Define a policy problem.
- Investigate evidence based policy formation.
- Plan for effective participation in policy development.
- Apply an accountability model to your work.
Welcome to Module 4: Policy Communities – Participation and accountability.
The collaborative imperative raises questions about whether we are moving towards a new era of public policy in Australia as governments seek new collaborative ways to do business: what are the benefits? What are the risks? As discussed in the previous module, government is seeking to participate with community organisations and private business in pursuit of sustainable service systems and policy outcomes.
We will systematically step through the key elements of policy work, commencing with policy communities. Remember in Module 1 we referred to stakeholders and interest groups as being active in influencing government policy.
As we have unprecedented access to data and ways to integrate random, multiple sources of data, new policy making skillsets are emerging – watch the following YouTube video in which an UK policy professional discusses – data science, graphic design and ethnography – as new policy setting skillsets.
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15 mins