POLI107 Week 11 Lecture notes - policymaking processes

Flashcards on Public Policy

Policy Definition (Lasswell)

Who gets what, when, how

Policy Definition (Anderson)

A purposive course of action followed by an actor or set of actors in dealing with a matter of concern …, public policies are those developed by governmental bodies and officials

Distributive Policy

Policy where coercion is remote and directed at individual conduct. Example: Education policy, Economic policies

Regulative Policy

Policy where coercion is immediate and directed at individual conduct. Example: Environmental policies, Labour policy

Constituent Policy

Policy where coercion is remote and directed at the environment of conduct. Example: Major changes on an electoral system, Creation of new public authorities

Redistributive Policy

Policy where coercion is immediate and directed at the environment of conduct. Example: Social welfare policies, Public health

Incrementalism

A mutual adjustment process that may produce small ranges of budgetary outputs.

Garbage Can Model

A process in which problems, solutions, and participants move from one choice opportunity to another in such a way that the nature of the choice, the time it takes, and the problems it solves all depend on a relatively complicated intermeshing of elements.

Path Dependence

Specific patterns of timing and sequence matter; large consequences may result from relatively small and contingent events; courses of action are difficult to reverse.

Institutional Friction

Increases as institutions add costs to the translation of inputs into outputs.

Dynamic Representation

The continued responsiveness of the government to the preferences of its citizens.

Thermostatic Model

Public preferences influence policy, and policy influences subsequent public preferences.