Conclusion: How Public Policy Shapes Politics

According to George Burdeau, politics is what love is to reproduction; a necessary enchantment that responds to an imperative, summoning neither sarcasm nor ridicule (Burdeau, 1979). In the path we have described, public policymaking appears as a necessary political activity which enchants the world by showing that social problems are soluble; that culprits will be punished; that public policies are in place; and that those in authority have the power to decide. Public policymaking thus proposes to restore order that problems, conflicts, and all sorts of disillusions have disordered. As Julien Freund explained, public policymaking is a political activity which reconciles the antinomial dialectics of order and disorder, agreement and conflict, enchantment and disillusionment.