The paper focus on the incorporation of public policy (PP) by public administration (AP), in the US and in Brazil. The paper is based upon an analysis of: a) studies about the development of PA as well as about PP; b) the presence of public policy as a subject in PA's journals and c) master programs on PA and on PP. The paper shows that PA in the beginning didn't include PP as its subject, due to the paradigm of the discipline, which dissociated administration and politics. But, in the sixties and seventies, the policy analysis movement was followed by the creation of schools and courses of PP and by the reform of the programs on PA. These programs include since then public policy analysis in its curricula and the new programs of PP include disciplines on management. In Brazil, the inclusion of PP as a subject by PA occurred at the same time as it occurred in the US, under the influence of this country. This inclusion reflected, nevertheless, Brazilian specificities such as the emphasis on development and on planning, the context of an authoritarian regime and the tension associated with the institutional insertion of the programs of PA: in Brazil the links between the courses of public administration with schools of business were responsible for a dilution of the identity of the PA subject, affecting the development of the field of public policy inside this discipline.
public policy; policy analysis; public administration; policy studies and training; history of public administration