You should read the first 3 chapters of Gill Walt's book, and come to class prepared to answer all of the following questions:

1. What are the three main levels of policy analysis?  At what level have you been working, or which level is most relevant to the work you will be doing?

2. How has the role of the state changed in your country recently?  To help you analyse this, make a list of the public and private sector involvements in the health sector in 1980 and 1995, and compare the lists.  Has there been any change?  Who owns the hospitals, clinics, pharmacies, training institutions?  Is the private sector involved in the provision of health care or in special services such as cleaning or catering?

3. Define and be able to give one example of each of the four exogenous factors which describe the context in which policymaking occurs.

4. Many people, even in those living in liberal democracies where they can vote for their representatives to government,  feel that policymaking is actually in the hands of small groups of elites (based on political, industrial, military, social, or land-owning positions.  To what extent is your own country's policymaking profile characterized by groups of elites?  What characterizes them or sets them apart from the general population?