{"id":371730,"date":"2026-09-14T10:15:57","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T04:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=371730"},"modified":"2026-09-14T10:17:22","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T04:47:22","slug":"pub-ad-optional-daily-brief-14-september-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/pub-ad-optional-daily-brief-14-september-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Pub Ad Optional Daily Brief \u2013 14 \u2013 September \u2013 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"red-h2-box\"><strong>Thinker of the Day | Harold D. Lasswell<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Harold D. Lasswell is widely regarded as the father of policy sciences because he developed an interdisciplinary and problem-oriented approach to public policy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Works &#8211;<\/strong> The Policy Orientation (1951)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Views <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lasswell viewed politics as the process through which society distributes Values, Resources, Privileges Opportunities<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This helps explain why public policy is not merely technical but also deeply political.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Policy sciences should be<br \/>\nProblem-oriented<br \/>\nContext-sensitive<br \/>\nInterdisciplinary<br \/>\nValue-conscious<br \/>\nAction-oriented<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>He advocated combining political science, economics, sociology, psychology and law to improve policymaking.<\/p>\n<p>Knowledge of policy &#8211; Understanding how policies are formulated and implemented. Knowledge in policy &#8211; Using expert knowledge to improve actual policy decisions.<\/p>\n<p>Lasswell identified policy functions such as Intelligence \u2192 Promotion \u2192 Prescription \u2192 Invocation \u2192 Application \u2192 Appraisal \u2192 Termination<\/p>\n<p>These stages represent information gathering, policy formulation, implementation, evaluation and possible termination.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lasswell transformed policy analysis from the study of government decisions into an interdisciplinary science of problem-solving and value allocation.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"red-h2-box\"><strong>Keyword of the Day | Quasi-Market<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>It is a system in which public services are delivered through market-like competition and choice, but the government continues to finance, regulate or oversee the service. It is not a completely free market and not a traditional government monopoly.<\/p>\n<p>Julian Le Grand &#8211; Quasi-markets can combine public objectives with competition and consumer choice.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pub Ad PYQ Vault | Day 44 | PYQ (2020)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cMarkets, hierarchies and networks represent modern governing structures in government.\u201d Explain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thinker of the Day | Harold D. Lasswell Harold D. Lasswell is widely regarded as the father of policy sciences because he developed an interdisciplinary and problem-oriented approach to public policy. Works &#8211; The Policy Orientation (1951) Views Lasswell viewed politics as the process through which society distributes Values, Resources, Privileges Opportunities This helps explain&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/pub-ad-optional-daily-brief-14-september-2026\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pub Ad Optional Daily Brief \u2013 14 \u2013 September \u2013 2026<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12183],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-371730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pub-ad-optional-daily-brief","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}