Analysis of public policies: frompolitical science to sociology of public action

Abstract

Over the last 50 years, the field of public policy analysis undergone significant transformations, principally related to the research of this field of study, as well as to the methodology and approach adopted .If public policy has been the subject of research on this academic field with excellence, as it represents the form of state intervention in the management of public affairs, developments in the international socio-political context changed the specifics and forms of this intervention, forcing researchers to frame an alternative concept of public policy, And then, the establishment of transitional paradigm to contribute in the approach of the new form of public policy to manage the public issue And understand ingits contents and tools, instead of focusing exclusively on the goals And the motives of the decision maker in adopting choices