PSYCHOLOGY OF PUBLIC POLICY (4 Credits)

Learning Outcomes:

On successful completion of this course, student will be able to: relate policy advocacy with the quality of urban community life; explain an analytical framework on the effectiveness of the policy options being considered; apply psychological,  interpretive and critical perspectives and principles to policy design and evaluation.

Topics:

1. Psychology and urban institutions
2. Enhancing the quality of urban life through policy analysis and policy advocacy
3. Carrying out an analysis of public policies
4. Relationships between the analytical dimensions
5. Indonesian public policy studies
6. The limitations of modern public administration
7. The changing context of public administration
8. Public administration as social design and social design in practice
9. Civil society, governance, and its potential
10. Revisiting urban psychology
11. Dimensions for analyzing public policies
12. The social constructionist approach and the self in social construction
13. Understanding action, praxis, and change