SE 15

Question 1

What are policy values?

‘what we think good and bad, important and trivial, right and wrong, noble and
contemptible” (Berlin, cited in Stewart, 2009)

“the valued ends embodied in, and implemented through, the collective choices we
make through policy processes” (Stewart, 2009)

priorities, internal compasses or springboards for action” (Rezsohazy, cited in
Stewart, 2009)

Answer 1

What are policy values?

‘what we think good and bad, important and trivial, right and wrong, noble and
contemptible” (Berlin, cited in Stewart, 2009)

“the valued ends embodied in, and implemented through, the collective choices we
make through policy processes” (Stewart, 2009)

priorities, internal compasses or springboards for action” (Rezsohazy, cited in
Stewart, 2009)

Question 2

What are policy values?

“broad principles of commonality and difference that operate as a kind of deep
structure in public policy” (Stewart, 2009)

“the choice-making of enacted policy”
“the informing principle of collective action: it is both motivator and object”
(Stewart, 2009)

Answer 2

What are policy values?

“broad principles of commonality and difference that operate as a kind of deep
structure in public policy” (Stewart, 2009)

“the choice-making of enacted policy”
“the informing principle of collective action: it is both motivator and object”
(Stewart, 2009)

Question 3

What are policy values?

Political Values
Underpin the broad design
p_________s of the governments
of nation states

Freedom
o c racy
Equality
Change very l_____e over time

Answer 3

What are policy values?

Political Values 
Underpin the broad design 
principles of the governments 
of nation states 
Freedom 
o c racy 
Equality 
Change very little over time

Question 4

What are policy values?

Policy Values 
Manifest themselves in 
particular a\_\_\_s of government 
action 
Design of health/education/etc. 
systems 
Support given to regions (eg. 
Provinces & territories) 
Change more readily over time 

Answer 4

What are policy values?

Policy Values 
Manifest themselves in 
particular areas of government 
action 
Design of health/education/etc. 
systems 
Support given to regions (eg. 
Provinces & territories) 
Change more readily over time 

Question 5

Why worry about policy values?

Many policy problems/issues are explicit and based in value o____________s
All policy questions are v____e-based

Answer 5

Why worry about policy values?

Many policy problems/issues are explicit and based in value orientations
All policy questions are value-based

Question 6

Why worry about policy values?

All public policy is value-laden
All public policy a_______s is value-laden

Public policy is the process through which governments of nation states a_______e values

Answer 6

Why worry about policy values?

All public policy is value-laden
All public policy analysis is value-laden
Public policy is the process through which governments of nation states allocate values

Question 7

What do policy values do?

Values as m_________s
Values as the basis for choice
Stewart (2009)

Answer 7

What do policy values do?

Values as motivators
Values as the basis for choice
Stewart (2009)