This essay will be required to be 4000 words total and split into 2 parts: A 500 word policy analysis plan, and a 3500 word essay focusing on the policy challenge described in the Topic.
In this assignment you are required to research and explain the policy challenges in reference to the Topic through references to policy theories, and how governments are, might, or have sought to address the policy challenge.
The 500 word policy analysis plan should be laid out in the following way:
Issue: Describe the policy challenge you are going to analyse.
Background: What does the reader need to understand about this policy challenge? When/How did it become a matter of public concern? Why is it a challenge that you want to explain and which lends itself to political and policy analysis? Make the reader impressed by your choice of policy: why is this policy challenge important.
Thesis: How are you going to apply theory to help explain how this policy challenge became an issue of public concern? How can our understanding of what governments do explain how policy has been developed and implemented to address this challenge? Is there a particular aspect of the policy challenge that you particularly want to examine and why? If so, why? And how are you planning to shed light on this question?
Conclusion: What have you achieved, better understood, and want to share through undertaking this analysis?
The 3500 word essay to follow should incorporate everything described in the policy analysis but in much more detail and with references.
