Day One - Policy Updating
Masterclass time: 9am - 5pm

8.30 Registration & welcoming coffee:

9.00 Welcome from facilitator, Professor Scott Prasser

Day 1 is a brief tour and refresher course on the key conceptual frameworks and underpinnings of modern policy development, institutional arrangements and constitutional frameworks.

It is about getting our core knowledge up to date. It ends by focussing on the limits and these parameters.

Introduction
  • Policy 101 - so what's the textbooks say again? Back to basics
    • Revisiting policy models, rational policy development, policy cycle
    • How is policy supposed to develop?
    • Key concepts of power and society
    • Systems and processes of government
    • Role of government: Some concepts and views
    • Role of public servants in policy work:
    Some concepts and views
    • Revisiting the policy environment
    • Frameworks for analysis
    • Key case studies
  • Review
    • Reassesment of the policy 200
    • What´s supposed to be happening?
    • What works for you?
    • What´s changing?
    • What´s threatening?
    • What´s not working?
    • What´s the future?
5.00 End of Day One:

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