The Final Post

Well, here I’m writing the last post of the semester and, I expect, from the English Program, and this blog will be about a very interesting topic, how the environment affects the policies made by the public administration. The first relevant question about this is really the public administration makes policies? an issue that has been addressed by various authors. For example, Woodrow Wilson says that the politic and the administration must be separated, leaving the creation of policies for the first group, so that the administration is only responsible for implementing them, but on the other side of the spectrum academics like Ora-orn Poocharoen and Oscar Oszlack pose that the administration plays an important role in the formulation of policies.

Anyway, in both cases the environment plays an important role when policies are being created. There is a lot of cases of policies that were born product of the pressure that the society exerted, a clear example of this is the educational reform, which arose as a result of the large number of mobilizations carried out by secondary and higher students and that forced the government to carry out reforms around what the mobilized students demanded.

Examples like the above proves how the environment and the pressure made by different groups affects the making of new policies, and this will surely continue to happen in the future because the necessities of the people change with the time, so one day the citizens will demand one policy about one topic and the other will demand another about a different one.

So, that’s all, thanks for being reading my blogs this semester, may the force be with you.