Policy Advocacy - POGO8083

Policy Advocacy is a graduate course in policy communication, requiring no specialist knowledge or experience of public policy or administration. The course forms part of the ANU Master of Public Policy degree but may be taken by students enrolled in most other master degrees. The course examines strategies and tactics used by policy advocates inside and outside government when marshalling argument and evidence to promote their preferred outcomes. The aim is not to train students in the arts of policy advocacy but to strengthen students' understanding of the nature of advocacy and of place of policy advocacy in the policy process. The course materials draw on many disciplines: history, literature, rhetoric, philosophy, as well as the contemporary social sciences, including social psychology. Examples include many Australian cases but the aim is more general: to stimulate learning about the many ways that policy advocacy shapes policy choice, especially in political systems with open forms of deliberative democracy.

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