Politics is the means by which a community makes collective decisions about public issues.
This article provides an overview of the relationship between politics and public policy. It will examine what politics is, why it exists, the venues in which it occurs, and the ways in which it can shape public policy. Politics is only one way of determining public policy decisions. Politics will be contrasted with the other ways of making public policy, namely, ideology, expertise, and authority. This article will also examine the sources of politics, the contrast between politics and rationality as sources of policy, and the question of how power is distributed in modern democracies.
Public policy refers to the decisions and actions that are taken by the government when it addresses public issues or those that concern the entire community. Politics refers to the way in which.
