Flashcards in Lecture 1 - Introduction Deck (19)
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what's a policy?
it guides actions through guidelines, rules, regulations, laws, principles, and directions
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who uses policy?
- government
- private sector
- civil society
- universities
- communities
- households
- individuals
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policy is not...
- law
- politics
- management
- economics
- science
- arts
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what do policies identify?
- problems
- principles
- goals
- issues
- roles
- responsibilities
- actions
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what options are evaluated against when making a policy?
- probable effectiveness
- potential cost
- resources required for implementation
- political context
- community/stakeholder support
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what's the difference between politics and public policy?
politics: how power's exercised
public policy: examines making of guidelines by the government; focuses on decisions made
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true or false: public policy includes what the government intends to do AND what it chooses not to do
true
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power derives from:
consent of the governed
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what is the role/responsibility of citizens pertaining to public policy? (4)
- participate in deliberative discourse
- information seeking
- communicating with decision makers
- voting in elections
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where is the power to make policies delegated to?
elected officials; but we can still dictate interest and can promote
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stone says policy making is a constant struggle over criteria for
- classification
- boundaries of categories
- definition of ideals that guide the way people behave
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stone says how people define their preferences depends on how...
choices are presented to them and by whom
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who are actors in policy? (13)
- legislatures
- interest groups/non-profit organizations
- courts
- consultants
- elites
- bureaucracies
- policy networks
- think tanks
- scientists
- public administrators
- citizens
- business
- media
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define community
must have a membership and some way of defining who is a member. it can be political or cultural and defines social, economic, and political rights.
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define power
- phenomenon of communities
- subordinate individual self interest to other interests operating through influence, cooperation and loyalty.
- based on strategic control of info
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define institution
humanly devised constraints that structure human interaction. made up of formal constraints, informal constraints, and their enforcement characteristics. they define the incentive structure of societies and specifically economies
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list some formal constraints
rules, laws, constitutions
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list some informal constraints
norms, social conventions, moral behaviors
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