POLS206 WK10 - PET & Public policy in NZ

Lowi (1964)

who directly/indirectly experiences coercion due to a policy

Wilson (1973)

who benefits or bears the concentrated/diffuse cost from policy

salience

issues considered both important AND a problem for residents

comprised of issue problem status and issue attention

(builds on wlezien)

issue attention

reasons ppl care abt a specific issue, e.g. structural and psychological reasons certain reasons are important to individuals

operating room politics

high salience, high complexity

the more complex an issue, the less the public are involved

e.g. hazardous waste regulation

board room politics

low salience, high complexity

very elite driven

e.g. antitrust regulation

hearing room politics

high salience, low complexity

quite easily put in place a policy that will address it

e.g. g*n control

street level politics

low salience, low complexity

e.g. billboard regulations

note on policy success

 

Never get a full success in the sense that you never get a complete policy failure - may address certain aspects/for a certain groups of ppl

NZ as a social laboratory

reputation of being innovative

rest of world follows suite

periodic willingness to innovate

reasonably easy to make big changes with less citizen participation (under liberal gov, this changed.)

timeline of social laboratory

1890 - richard seddon (king dick)

1930 - Michael Savage

1980 - David Lange