{"id":48257,"date":"2022-10-27T13:51:01","date_gmt":"2022-10-27T11:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.getsmarter.com\/blog\/?p=48257"},"modified":"2025-12-02T14:17:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T12:17:08","slug":"defining-public-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getsmarter.com\/blog\/defining-public-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Defining Public Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Defining Public Policy | LSE\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yPgxNHGMVIM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Transcript<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Public policy is an important way in which governments respond to the needs of citizens.<\/p>\n<p>Public policy is the system of laws, regulatory measures, courses of action, and funding priorities that are created by a governmental entity.<\/p>\n<p>Governments use public policy to solve societal and economic problems. The policies chosen by a government represent an aggregation of the individual preferences of individual members of society. Public policies differ widely between different countries.<\/p>\n<p>In the Netherlands, for example, healthcare is provided free by the state; while in the United States, healthcare is largely operated by the private sector. Countries differ in their solutions to societal issues, such as migration, climate change, abortion, and taxation.<\/p>\n<p>Frameworks help us to order and simplify reality, in order to understand trends and identify solutions to public policy problems. They also provide a lens through which we can make predictions about the consequences of different possible public policy reforms, and which we can use to suggest explanations for public policy processes and outcomes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When it comes to identifying and solving societal and economic issues, where does a government begin? 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