Types of Social Policies Flashcards by Jon Bryx Ayag

It is a governing principle or plan of action to pursue societal aspirations;

Policy

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can be understood as political, management, financial, and
administrative mechanisms arranged to reach explicit goals.

Policy

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It is a part of public policy that has to do with social issues such as public
access to social programs.

Social Policy

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It aims to improve human welfare and to meet human needs for education,
health, housing and social security and others.

Social Policy

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6 types of Social Policy

RDRCES
Regulatory policy
Distributive policy
Redistributive Policy
Capitalization Policy
Ethical Policy
Substantive Policy

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Any attempt by the government to control the behavior of citizens,
corporations, or sub-governments (Meier, 1985)

Regulatory Policy

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It regulates how people act towards one another

Regulatory Policy

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Intended to govern the conduct of business

Regulatory Policy

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Police Power of the State

Regulatory Policy

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programs and initiatives that aim to regulate and monitor social
behaviors, practices, and institutions to promote public welfare
and ensure compliance with legal and ethical standards.

Regulatory Policy

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These policies aim to regulate and monitor social behaviors, practices, and institutions to promote public welfare, protect the
rights of individuals, and ensure compliance with legal and ethical
standards

Regulatory Policy

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include law enforcement; business regulation (prices, fraud, unfair practices, monopoly); limiting access to public goods (air, water, communications); and health and safety

Patterns of Regulatory Policy

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impose restrictions or limitations on the behavior of individuals and groups (Anderson, 1997)

Regulatory policy

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Diference of regulatory vs. self-regulatory policy

Regulatory are restricting and controlling. But unlike regulatory policies, self-regulatory policies are usually sought and supported by the regulated group as a means of protecting or promoting the interests of its members.

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designed to “limit the provision of goods and services to one or a few designated
deliverers, who are chosen from a larger number of competing potential
deliverers.”

Competitive Regulatory Policies

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intended to protect the public at large from the negative effects of private activity, such as tainted food, air pollution, unsafe consumer products, or fraudulent
business transactions.

Protective Regulatory Policies

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Examples:

allocation of radio and TV frequencies by governments

regulation of trade or professions (law, medicine, nursing, engineering, etc)

Competitive Regulatory Policies

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Examples:

Milk Code

Graphic warning labels in cigarette packaging

Licensing of health facilities

Protective Regulatory Policies

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This law regulates the employment of workers and establishes minimum
labor standards to protect the rights of workers and promote their welfare.

Labor Code of the Philippines

(Part of Regulatory Policy)

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This law protects the rights of consumers by regulating business practices
and ensuring the provision of quality goods and services.

Consumer Act of the Philippines

(Part of Regulatory Policy)

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This law sets the minimum wage rate for workers in the Philippines to
ensure that they are paid fairly and receive a living wage.

Minimum Wage Law

(Part of Regulatory Policy)

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This law regulates smoking in public places to promote public health and
reduce the risk of smoking-related diseases.

Anti-Smoking Law

(Part of Regulatory Policy)

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This law sets the standards and regulations for building construction to
ensure the safety and security of occupants.

National Building Code

(Part of Regulatory Policy)

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Different sections of the 1987 Constitution also exhibit show the state’s
regulatory policies, such as but not limited to:

Sec. 5, 24, 25, 27, 28

Section 5. The maintenance of peace and order, the protection of life, liberty,
and property, and promotion of the general welfare are essential for the
enjoyment by all the people of the blessings of democracy.

Section 24. The State recognizes the vital role of communication and
information in nation-building

Section 25. The State shall ensure the autonomy of local governments.

Section 27. The State shall maintain honesty and integrity in the public
service and take positive and effective measures against graft and
corruption.

Section 28. Subject to reasonable conditions prescribed by law, the State
adopts and implements a policy of full public disclosure of all its
transactions involving public interest.

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This policy aims to establish the correct practice of moral and ethical issues. separate category from the regulative policies of law and commerce.

Ethical Policy

Policy bases for ethical policy in the 1987 Philippine Constitution are shown in the following:

Sec. 11, 15, 16, 17 Section 11. The State values the dignity of every human person and guarantee full respect for human rights. Section 15. The State shall protect and promote the right to health of the people and instill health consciousness among them. Section 16. The State shall protect and advance the right of the people to a balanced and healthful ecology in accord with the rhythm and harmony of nature. Section 17. The State shall give priority to education, science and technology, arts, culture, and sports to foster patriotism and nationalism accelerate social progress, and promote total human liberation and development.

actions “intended to manipulate the allocation of wealth, property, personal or civil rights, or some other valued item among social classes” welfare, civil rights for social minorities, aid to poor cities or schools,

Redistributive Policy

these policies are difficult to pass because the less powerful must prevail over the more powerful interests or at least persuade more powerful groups that it is right and just to approve the redistribution of some resource to the less powerful.

Redistributive Policy

Can also involve the transfer of resources from the less well off to the better off

Redistributive Policy

benefits—the poor, urban areas, economically depressed areas—were depicted as unworthy recipients, and the policies intended to help them were severely criticized. tax cuts that shifted benefits from the poor to the wealthy

Redistributive [Policy]

programs and initiatives that seek to redistribute wealth, income, or other resources from the wealthy to the poor and marginalized sectors of society. These policies aim to address poverty and inequality by redistributing resources from the wealthy to the poor and marginalized sectors of society.

Redistributive Policy

civil rights is a good illustration of this notion of at least the perception of the redistribution of rights Blacks demanding rights and resources guaranteed under the Constitution🡪 many people resisted these policies because they believed that they would somehow be losers if blacks were “winners” of these rights. Same-sex marriage

Redistributive Policy

This program aims to distribute land to landless farmers and provide them with support services to improve their productivity and income.

Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) (Part of Redistributive Policy)

What law seeks to make the tax system more progressive by reducing income taxes for low-income earners while increasing taxes on higher-income earners.

Tax Reform for Acceleration and Inclusion (TRAIN) Law (Part of Redistributive Policy)

involve the granting of some sort of benefit to a particular interest group or other well-defined, relatively small group of beneficiaries

Distributive Policy

takes a resource from a broad group of people and gives the resource to a narrower group; Example: farm subsidies and federal spending on local infrastructure projects such as dams, flood control systems, aviation, highways, and schools.

Distributive Policy

These benefits are usually distributed in the process of developing authorization and appropriations bills as part of the budgeting process

Distributive Policy

policy allows for a considerable amount of negotiation and distribution of benefits to members of Congress (increase fund allocation in their districts, cited during their re-election bids)

Distributive Policy

Is a kind of policy where government efforts to distribute benefits to some portion of the population and pay for those benefits from general tax revenues.

Distributive Policy

are in the form of subsidies, support for education, research and extension, creation of distributive public goods, and provision of government insurance

Distributive Policy

programs and initiatives implemented by the government to promote equitable distribution of resources and opportunities, particularly to marginalized and disadvantaged sectors of society

Distributive Policy

These policies aim to address poverty and inequality by ensuring that marginalized sectors of society have access to essential services and opportunities.

Distributive Policy

Involve allocation of services or benefits to particular segments of the population – individuals, groups, corporations, and communities. Typically involves using public funds to assist particular groups, communities, or industries. ( Anderson, 1997)

Distributive Policy

programs and initiatives implemented by the government to promote equitable distribution of resources and opportunities, particularly to marginalized and disadvantaged sectors of society

Distributive Policy

This program provides financial assistance to poor families in exchange for fulfilling certain conditions, such as sending their children to school and getting regular health checkups.

Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) Program (Part of Distributive Policy)

This law aims to provide access to quality and affordable healthcare services for all Filipinos, particularly those who are indigent, senior citizens, and persons with disabilities.

Universal Health Care (UHC) Law (Part of Distributive Policy)

This program provides cash grants to poor households to support their daily needs and improve their access to education and health services.

Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) (Part of Distributive Policy)

This program provides affordable rice to low-income families through the distribution of subsidized rice.

National Food Authority (NFA) Rice Subsidy Program (Part of Distributive Policy)

aims to support small local infrastructure and other priority community projects which are not included in the national infrastructure program involving massive and costly projects

Countrywide Development Fund (CDF) (Part of Distributive Policy)

Illustrates the “power of the purse” that has been constitutionally vested in the House of Representatives Declared as unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in the case of Belgica v. Ochoa

LEGISLATIVE acts providing allocations like the Countrywide Development Fund (CDF) and the Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) | Part of Distributive Policy

program improves the access of poor Filipinos to health and education services

Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT or 4Ps) programs | Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) is Conditional Cash Transfer

address infrastructure constraints that have resulted to the country’s weak economic growth in the past

Public-Private Partnership (PPP, RA.7718) initiative

UCT for indigent senior citizens

Php 2,400/year

UCT for Pantawid Pasada Prog

PhP20,500 (2019)

Adopts an integrated and comprehensive approach to health development which shall endeavor to make essential goods, health and other social services available to all the people at affordable cost. Priority for the needs of the underprivileged, sick, elderly, disabled, women, and children shall be recognized. The Act also shows the policy of the State to provide free medical care to paupers. Php 60.6 Billion for 2018

R.A. 7875: National Health Insurance Act of 1995 amended by RA 10606 (Part of Distributive Policy)

Refers to policy where the government taxes one group of people to provide benefits to another group. This policy comes in the form of income stabilization (unemployment, retirement); welfare (head start, food stamps, school lunch programs); health care (Phil Health, aid for senior citizens); and housing and income distribution (sin tax, etc.). Involve deliberate efforts by the government to shift the allocation of wealth, income, property, or rights among broad classes or groups of the population, such as haves and have-nots, proletariat and bourgeoisie “The aim involved is no use of property but property itself, not equal treatment but equal possession, not behavior but being.” (Anderson, 1997)

Distributive Policy | R.A. 7875: National Health Insurance Act of 1995 amended by RA 10606

The constitutional bases for Distributive policies are the following

Sec. 9, 10, 21, 26 Section 9. The State shall promote a just and dynamic social order that will ensure the prosperity and independence of the nation and free the people from poverty through policies that provide adequate social services, promote full employment, a rising standard of living, and an improved quality of life for all. Section 10. The State shall promote social justice in all phases of national development. Section 21. The State shall promote comprehensive rural development and agrarian reform. Section 26. The State shall guarantee equal access to opportunities for public service and prohibit political dynasties as may be defined by law.

this policy aims to increase the productive capacity of social institutions

Capitalization Policy

this policy highlights that financial subsidies given by the Center to regional and local governments and central and state business undertakings

Capitalization Policy

This policy is not directly linked to public welfare infrastructural and development policies for government business organizations to keep functioning properly

Capitalization Policy

This agency provides skills training and development programs to equip Filipinos with the necessary skills and knowledge to gain employment or start their own businesses.

Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) - Part of Capitalization Policy

These programs provide access to credit and financial services to individuals and small businesses who have limited access to traditional banking services.

Microfinance Programs - Part of Capitalization Policy

These programs provide training and assistance to individuals and communities to help them establish sustainable livelihoods and generate income.

Livelihood Programs - Part of Capitalization Policy

Capitalization Policy bases from the Philippine Constitution are shown in the following:

Sec. 12, 13, 14, 18, 19, 20, 22, 23 Section 12. The State recognizes the sanctity of family life and shall protect and strengthen the family as a basic autonomous social institution. It shall equally protect the life of the mother and the life of the unborn from conception. The natural and primary right and duty of parents in the rearing of the youth for civic efficiency and the development of moral character shall receive the support of the Government. Section 13. The State recognizes the vital role of the youth in nation-building and shall promote and protect their physical, moral, spiritual, intellectual, and social well-being. It shall inculcate in the youth patriotism and nationalism and encourage their involvement in public and civic affairs. Section 14. The State recognizes the role of women in nation-building and shall ensure the fundamental equality before the law of women and men. Section 18. The State affirms labor as a primary social economic force. It shall protect the rights of workers and promote their welfare. Section 19. The State shall develop a self-reliant and independent national-economy effectively controlled by Filipinos Section 20. The State recognizes the indispensable role of the private sector, encourages private enterprise, and provides incentives to needed investments. Section 22. The State recognizes and promotes the rights of indigenous cultural communities within the framework of national unity and development. Section 23. The State shall encourage non-governmental, community-based, or sectoral organizations that promote the welfare of the nation.

concerned with the general welfare and development of the society programs like provision of education and employment opportunities, economic stabilization, law and order enforcement, anti-pollution legislation

Substantive Policy

These policies have vast areas of operation affecting the general welfare and development of the society as a whole. do not relate to any particular or privileged segments of the society.

Substantive Policy

Such policies have to be formulated keeping in view the prime character of the constitution socio-economic problems and the level of moral claims of the society. deals with the stable society living in the inhabitants in a given political system

Substantive Policy

programs and initiatives that aim to address the root causes of social problems, promote social justice, and improve the overall quality of life for all Filipinos. These policies aim to promote social justice, protect human rights, and improve the overall well-being of all Filipinos by addressing the root causes of social problems and promoting social inclusion.

Substantive Policy

This program aims to provide universal access to health care by pooling resources to fund health services for all Filipinos.

National Health Insurance Program - Part of Substantive Policy

This law seeks to protect the country's water resources and ensure that all Filipinos have access to safe and clean drinking water.

Clean Water Act - Part of Substantive Policy

This law aims to promote proper waste management practices to protect public health and the environment.

Ecological Solid Waste Management Act - Part of Substantive Policy

This law seeks to eliminate discrimination against women and promote gender equality in all spheres of society.

Magna Carta for Women - Part of Substantive Policy

This proposed law seeks to protect the rights of all individuals, regardless of their gender, sexual orientation, and gender identity.

Anti-Discrimination Bill - Part of Substantive Policy

Types of Social Policies Flashcards

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