Public Policy, Gen (r) Javed Hasan 03-01-2011

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PUBLIC POLICY

What is Public Policy?

Relationship with State Craft

Methodology

Process


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STATECRAFT

A highly intentional Art

Imparts purpose to state actions as against mere

reaction to events

Art of managing state affairs

Applied to conduct of all facets of inter & intra- state

relationsdiplomatic , political, economic, military


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STATECRAFT ?

Doctrines, dispositions, policies, processes

and operations that promote governance,

security and prosperity of a state


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STATECRAFT

Evolves through interaction of leaders, society &

state

Leader - Society - State relationship is dynamic

and evolving

Statecraft is relevant to socio-cultural environment

Embedded in the political culture of a society


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POLITICAL CULTURE

Commonly held beliefs on how governmental,

political and economic life should be carried out

Traditional, Tribal, Patriarchal vs Rational,

Democratic culture

Political Rationality/Culture

Bureaucratic Rationality/Culture


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Tetzel, a Dominican monk, Upon arrival in a town,

he would be greeted by a prearranged procession of

clergy and commoners coming out to meet him withflags and lighted candles while church bells rang joyful

tunes. Traveling with a brass-bound chest and a bag of

printed receipts, and preceded by an assistant friar

bearing the Bull of Indulgence on a velvet cushion,he would set up shop in the nave of the principal

church in front of a huge cross raised for the occasion

and draped with the papal banner. At his side an agent

of the Fuggers kept careful count of the money thatpurchasers dropped into a bowl placed on top of the

chest, as each received a pointed indulgence from the

bag.


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I have here, Tetzel would call out, the passports

to lead the human soul to the celestial joys of

Paradise. For a mortal sin, seven years of penancewere due. Who then would hesitate for a quarter-

florin to secure one of these letters of remission?

Warming up, he would say that if a Christian had

slept with his mother and put money in the Popesbowl, the Holy Father had the power in Heaven and

earth to forgive the sin, and if he forgave it, God must

do so also. In behalf of the deceased, he said that as

soon as the coin rang in the bowl, the soul for whom itwas paid would fly out of Purgatory straight to

Heaven.


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The folly was not pursuit of counter-productive policy

so much as rejection of any steady or coherent policy

either political or religious that would have improvedtheir situation or arrested the rising discontent.

Disregard of the movements and sentiments

developing around them was a primary folly. They

were deaf to disaffection, blind to the alternative ideasit gave rise to, blandly impervious to challenge,

unconcerned by the dis-government, fixed in refusal to

change, almost stupidly stubborn in maintaining a

corrupt existing system. They could not change itbecause they were part of it, grew out of it, depended

on it.


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they gave themselves to drifting into vanities,

congregating in absurdities, planning short-sightedly,

plotting dementedly. (George Meredith: The Egoist)


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An effective theory is a framework created to model

certain observed phenomena without describing in

detail all of the underlying processes. (StephenHawking , The Grand Design)


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Different theories can successfully describe the

same phenomenon through disparate conceptual

frameworks. In fact, many scientific theories thathad proven successful were later replaced by other,

equally successful theories based on wholly new

concepts of reality. (Stephen Hawking , The Grand

Design)


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According to even conservative estimates, during

this cosmological inflation, the universe expanded

by a factor of1,ooo,ooo,ooo,ooo,ooo,ooo,ooo,ooo,ooo,ooo in

.oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo1. It was as

if a coin 1 centimeter in diameter suddenly blew up

to ten million times the width of the Milky Way.

(Stephen Hawking , The Grand Design)


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Every systematic science, the humblest and

the noblest alike, seems to admit of two

distinct kinds of proficiency; one of which may

be properly called scientific knowledge of the

subject, while the other is a kind ofeducational acquaintance with it. For an

educated man should be able to form a fair

off-hand judgment as to the goodness or

badness of the method used by a professor

in his exposition.


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To be educated is in fact to be able to do this;

and even the man of universal education we

deem to be such in virtue of his having this

ability. It will, however, of course, be

understood that we only ascribe universaleducation to one who in his own individual

person is thus critical in all or nearly all

branches of knowledge, and not to one whohas a like ability merely in some special

subject.


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For it is possible for a man to have this

competence in some one branch of

knowledge without having it in all.

Aristotle (on the Parts of Animals)


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N. Aims

N. Objectives & Goals

NATIONAL SECURITY STRATEGYOrchestration of Instruments & Elements

NATIONAL POLICY

(Main N. Course)

JUDICIARY

Strategic Appraisal

NationhoodN. Id

Basis NationalismN PurposeN. Interests

EXECUTIVE

LEGISLATURE

Elements of N. Power

Geo, Population, Water,

Minerals, Land, Military,Media, Executive,

Legislature, Judiciary

Inst of Statecraft

Media, Edu,

Eco, Mil, Foreign,Interior, Religious

Values, Beliefs, Attitudes (Lt and Rt of Centre Beliefs

Taxes/Govt, Welfare State vs. Rights, F Policy, Pluralism, Religion: Dynamic vs.

Static, Tradition vs Modernity, Dogma vs. Rational, Muslim vs. Islamic, Federalismvs. Constitutionalism, Nationalism vs. Sub Nationalism, Equality Liberty Fraternity

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N i l li Di i


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National policy Directive

Purpose, Interests

N. Aims N. Objectives & Goals

NATIONAL SECURITY STRATEGY

Orchestration of Instruments & Elements

NATIONAL POLICY

(Main N. Course)

JUDICIARY

Strategic Appraisal

NationhoodN. Id

Basis NationalismN PurposeN. Interests

EXECUTIVE

LEGISLATURE

Elements of N. Power

Geo, Population, Water,

Minerals, Land, Military,Media, Executive,

Legislature, Judiciary

Inst of Statecraft

Media, Edu,

Eco, Mil, Foreign,Interior, Religious

Values, Beliefs, Attitudes (Lt and Rt of Centre Beliefs

Taxes/Govt, Welfare State vs. Rights, F Policy, Pluralism, Religion: Dynamic vs.

Static, Tradition vs Modernity, Dogma vs. Rational, Muslim vs. Islamic, Federalismvs. Constitutionalism, Nationalism vs. Sub Nationalism, Equality Liberty Fraternity

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Th M t f Fi h


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The Masters of Fiqh

SYRIAN LEGISTS

Influenced by Syrian and

Umayyad governmental practices

MEDINA LEGISTS IRAQI LEGISTS

Claimed closer memory of

Prophets Sunnah, and less

taint of innovations

Used analogy but also preferred

equity; influenced by Iraqi and

Abbasid government practices

Al-Awza i Malik b. Anas(715-795)

Malik i school

al-Shaybani

(d.805)

Abu-Hanifah

(d. 767)

Hanifi school

Abu-Yousuf

(d.798)

al-Shafi i

(d. 820)

Shafi i

schoolRigorous care to verify hadits, especially of Prophets Sunnah; Use of analogy

Ibn-Hanbal

(d. 855)

Hanbali school

Dawud b. Khalaf

(d.883)

Zahiri school

Emphasis upon & restriction to literalist use of Quran and hadiths of the Prophets Sunnah

Emphasis upon using carefully chosen hadits; preference for a weak hadithover a strong analogy


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Everything one has a right to do is not best tobe done. (Benjamin Franklin)


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How much, does a mans efforts depend on

the age in which his work is cast!.


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Folly, in one of its aspects, is the obstinate

attachment to a disserviceable goal.


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Considering that Those seeking change were

engaged in all the practices that the rules forbade,

the will was missing. Change of course must come

either from will at the top or from irresistible

external pressure.

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