IMPORTANCE

CONTEXT
Structure
4.0 Learning Outcome
, 4.1
Introduction
4.2 Importance of Public Policy
4.2.1 Developing Study of Policy Science
4.2.2 Political and Reasons

Public policy a significantcomponent of the society government. It is a frequently

used in our daily in our academic literature where we often make references
national health policy, the new education policy, wage policy, agricultural policy, foreign
policy so on. It is an area, which to do with those spheres that are labeled as public.
public policy presupposes that there is of life that is not private individual,
but held in common.This Unit will highlight the importanceof role of the state,
and national
policy
agenda.
what John Dewey (1927) as "the public and its problems". is concerned with how
issues and problems come to be defined, and how they are placed on the
political and party agenda. But it is also the study of "how, why and to what effect
governments pursue particular courses of action and inaction",or as Dye puts it, with
"what governments do, why they do it, and what differenceit makes". This study of the
nature, causes, and effects of public policies requires we avoid a narrow focus and
draw on a variety of approaches and disciplines.