GAZI UNIVERSITY INFORMATION PACKAGE - 2019 ACADEMIC YEAR

COURSE DESCRIPTION
PUBLIC POLICIES AND ETHICS/7870004
Course Title: PUBLIC POLICIES AND ETHICS
Credits 3 ECTS 7.5
Semester 2 Compulsory/Elective Elective
COURSE INFO
 -- LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION
  Turkısh
 -- NAME OF LECTURER(S)
  Doç. Dr. Murat AKÇAKAYA
 -- WEB SITE(S) OF LECTURER(S)
  http://www.websitem.gazi.edu.tr/site/akcakaya
 -- EMAIL(S) OF LECTURER(S)
  akcakaya@gazi.edu.tr
 -- LEARNING OUTCOMES OF THE COURSE UNIT
Knows administrative and political decision-making processes, models and approaches,
Understands ethical contradictions between common good and individual interest.
Analyze, various processes public policy.
Gets information about philosophical roots of ethic.
Estimates examples of different countries in terms of Turkey.




 -- MODE OF DELIVERY
  The mode of delivery of this course is Face to face
 -- PREREQUISITES AND CO-REQUISITES
  There is no prerequisite or co-requisite for this course.
 -- RECOMMENDED OPTIONAL PROGRAMME COMPONENTS
  There is no recommended optional programme component for this course.
 --COURSE CONTENT
1. Week  Public policy: Definition, relationship between policy and politics, development and the situation in Turkey
2. Week  Public policy formulation, implementation and evaluation
3. Week  Public policies, editing, re-editing and re-distribution
4. Week  Influential actors in public policy processes
5. Week  Public policy formulation and decision-making models (rational approach, limited rationality, incremental model)
6. Week  Public policy formulation and decision-making models (evidence-based models, garbage can model)
7. Week  Public policy formulation and decision-making models (systems theory, elite theory, group theory, institutional approach)
8. Week  Public policy formulation and decision-making models (public choice theory, game theory, deliberative approach, post-positivist models)
9. Week  Public policy analysis methods
10. Week  In Turkey, public policy formulation, implementation and evaluation processes
11. Week  Actors involved in the public policy process in Turkey
12. Week  Public policy transfer
13. Week  Participation in public policy
14. Week  General Evaluation
15. Week  
16. Week  
 -- RECOMMENDED OR REQUIRED READING
  Smith, Kevin B., C.W. Larimer, The Public Policy Theory Primer, Westview Press, 2009. Anderson, James E., (2003), Public Policymaking: An Introduction, Fifth Edition, Houghton Company, Boston,. Sobacı, Mehmet Zahid (2009), İdari Reform ve Politika Transferi Yeni Kamu Yönetiminin Yayılışı, Turhan Kitabevi, Ankara.
 -- PLANNED LEARNING ACTIVITIES AND TEACHING METHODS
  Lecture, Question & Answer, Demonstration, Drill - Practise
 -- WORK PLACEMENT(S)
  none
 -- ASSESSMENT METHODS AND CRITERIA
 
Quantity
Percentage
 Mid-terms
1
20
 Assignment
1
20
 Exercises
0
0
 Projects
0
0
 Practice
0
0
 Quiz
0
0
 Contribution of In-term Studies to Overall Grade  
40
 Contribution of Final Examination to Overall Grade  
60
 -- WORKLOAD
 Efficiency  Total Week Count  Weekly Duration (in hour)  Total Workload in Semester
 Theoretical Study Hours of Course Per Week
15
3
45
 Practising Hours of Course Per Week
0
 Reading
15
5
75
 Searching in Internet and Library
15
4
60
 Designing and Applying Materials
0
 Preparing Reports
1
3
3
 Preparing Presentation
1
3
3
 Presentation
1
3
3
 Mid-Term and Studying for Mid-Term
1
1
1
 Final and Studying for Final
1
1
1
 Other
0
 TOTAL WORKLOAD: 
191
 TOTAL WORKLOAD / 25: 
7.64
 ECTS: 
7.5
 -- COURSE'S CONTRIBUTION TO PROGRAM
NO
 PROGRAM LEARNING OUTCOMES
1
2
3
4
5
1To be able to analyze those phenomenon and issues related with the discipline of Local Goverments through a multi-disciplinary and integrated approach and to produce proper solutions.X
2To be capable of following the theoretical and practical developments within the fields of political and social sciences, administrative sciences, urbanization and environmental problems and law on national and international scales.X
3To have competence in the theories and other conceptual approaches related with the discipline of Local Governments and to have the capacity to comment on these theoretical constructions from a critical perspective.X
4To gain a repertoire on European Union s administrative structure, local government policy in Turkey, globalization and localitization debates and new approaches in public administration.X
5To be equipped with the knowledge of Turkish Constitutional order, legal framework of human rights and international law.X
6To be able to reach the academic literature on public administration, to prepare a research design based on this theoretical framework, to conduct a scientific research by utilizing both the quantitative and qualitative methods and to analyze gathered data as well as to produce findings out of them.X
7To have professional and social responsibility as well as the skills to produce scientific knowledge in line with the ethical principles; to be able to make scientific publications.X
8To be able to analyze those phenomenon and issues related with the discipline of Local Governments through a multi-disciplinary and integrated approach and to produce proper solutions.X
9To be capable of following the theoretical and practical developments within the fields of political and social sciences, administrative sciences, urbanization and environmental problems and law on national and international scales.X
10To have competence in the theories and other conceptual approaches related with the discipline of Local Governments and to have the capacity to comment on these theoretical constructions from a critical perspective.X