Different Approaches to Public Policy Making

Public policy is one of the most fundamental tasks of governments today. They carry out various social activities, such as preventing social conflicts, mobilizing public resources, organizing bureaucratic organizations, and collecting taxes from people. This chapter mentions different approaches to public policy making that have emerged so far. It first mentions theoretical approaches to public policy based on what public policy making is and how it was born. In this way, it explains the reasons for the emergence of different views on public policy making and these different approaches. It then explains the frameworks and perspectives put forward for the public policy making process. Thus, it mentions different ideas about how public policy making should be. In this sense, the purpose of this chapter is to draw a general framework for these approaches and to reveal the theoretical and conceptual background for public policy making. In this context, it presents a summary of the discussions on the public policy making process, both theoretically and practically.