Online Courses Handbook 2003

3525 (v.9) Public Policy 313

Area:	School of Marketing
Contact Hours:	3.0
Credits:	25.0
Lecture:	1 x 3 Hours Weekly
Prerequisite(s):	2965 (v.8) Introduction to Government 204 or any previous version OR 8983 (v.9) International Policy 201 or any previous version
The political economy of bureaucracy, including advanced state theory (pluralist, neo pluralist, new right, elitist, corporatist and marxist), critical organisation theory and decision theory, new right political economy or bureaucracy (especially Niskanen's bureaucratic oversupply model), theories of public budgets, measures of bureaucratic efficiency, and accountability and control mechanisms.