Chapter 17: Cost & Benefits and Politics Flashcards
The nature of an issue affects who?
The groups involved
Provide a way to understand how issues affect political power
Cost & Benefits
Any burden, monetary, or nonmonetary that some people must or expect to bear from the policy
Cost
Any satisfaction, monetary, or nonmonetary that some people must or expects to receive from the policy
Benefit
What are the 4 types of Politics
Majoritarian
Interest Groups
Client
Entrepreneurial
Distributes cost to large numbers
Gives benefits to large numbers
Majoritarian
Cost are imposed on another small and identifiable group
Gives benefits to a relatively smaller and identifiable group
interest Groups
Cost are distributed widely
Relatively small groups that receives the benefits,
Client
There is little incentive for the opposition and to mobilize
Client
Cost are imposed on a small and identifiable groups
Gives benefits to large numbers
Entrepreneurial
Group has incentive to organize and build coalitions
Client