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O'Reilly, Patricia. "Finding the Balance in Public Policy Simulations and Role Playing" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the APSA Teaching and Learning Conference, San Jose Marriott, San Jose, California, Feb 22, 2008 <Not Available>. 2010-01-24 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p245627_index.html>

O'Reilly, P. , 2008-02-22 "Finding the Balance in Public Policy Simulations and Role Playing" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the APSA Teaching and Learning Conference, San Jose Marriott, San Jose, California Online <PDF>. 2010-01-24 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p245627_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Abstract: ABSTRACT Simulations and Role Playing are particularly suited to teaching public policy. Because of the complexity of policy making and the increasing emphasis in the field on the need for more complex methodological approaches to its understanding, public policy presents a difficult field of teaching. Instructors and textbook authors necessarily present the student with a more coherent, rational and predictable process than exists in reality. Some of this bias can be alleviated by immersing the students in a policy making simulation. This paper recommends the use of four types of person-to-person, role playing, policy simulations: an intergovernmental meeting, a legislative assembly session, an all-party policy committee meeting, and a policy sector management meeting. Best practices which involve the balancing of key elements of these four types of simulations are presented and discussed.

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