BERNICE NEL

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Postmodern Public Policy

20 Feb 2017, 18:49 Publicly Viewable

Firstly when one looks at public policy it seeks out to achieve a certain desired goal that is considered to have the best interest of all members of society.

There are quite a few public policies that relate to the above mentioned such as:

  • Regulatory Policy – This intends to monitor and control activities.
  • Distributive Policy – It’s mainly to subside or general to give aid to the society/ communities
  • Redistributive Policy – Focusing on restructuring economy and wealth among society
  • Security Policy – Based on maintaining peace and stability.

The main content behind Public Policy is initially the problem formulation, setting a public policy agenda, initiation, the basic design, different analysis and lastly the monitoring and evaluation of the final composition.

This brings us to the processes which include: the making of a specific policy and the implementations steps that will be required, generating the strategies and project management.

According to diverse authors understanding of public policies they define policy as a declaration and implementation of intent that allocations through the political process, of various values to groups in a society.  It has been stated that public policy is hence a legislator intends pursuing articulated goals. Policy is both a comprehensive framework or guide line that delimits action. Its a mechanism engaged to recognize societal goals.

The postmodern thought of public policy is primarily to address the critique of meaning, multiple forms of knowledge, exclusive of privileging any type of social actor.  Nevertheless the challenge is not only about the meaning but in addition to political institution demand amore directly democratic and discursive practise in the making of policy.

Therefore Stone made a quite convincing point where he stated that the rational approach to policy making misses the fact that policy problems and objectives aren’t prearranged rather constructed through specific category of language.

Consistent with the postmodern awareness that a society constructed, meaning was and still is made through language, actions and cultural objectives which also includes theory. This is way policy making bases its analysis on interpreting facts and values.

Postmodern Public Policy introduces a new way of investigating the urgent difficulties confronting the public sector. Both public policy and public management dominates their technical-instrumental thoughts through neutrality, objectivity and managerialism.

This political content shapes the identification and selection of alternatives.