Introduction

Question 1

what makes democratic regimes special?

Answer 1

responsive (elected, accountable, responsible) public authorities, within a set of constitutional rules, decide over a set of issues or policy areas.

Question 2

What are three different models of Public Management regarding bureaucracy?

Answer 2

Westminster model
Napoleonic model
New Public Management

Question 3

def. Westminder model

Answer 3

problem solving orientation

Question 4

def. Napoleonic model

Answer 4

formal validation of administrative acts

Question 5

def. New Public Management

Answer 5

attempt to find a compromise between the two “classic” models

Question 6

By who are the two definitions of public policy?

Answer 6

Dye (1972)
Jenkins (1978)

Question 7

Dye’s def. of public policy + features (4)

Answer 7

anything a government chooses to do or not to do

Features:
sphere of action: public vs. private
key actors: government
choice: to decide vs. not to decide
decision focus: not much attation paid to consequences

Question 8

Jankins def. of public policy + features (4)

Answer 8

a set of interrelated decisions taken by a political actor or group of actors concerning the selection of goals and the means of achieving them within a specified situation where those decisions should, in principle, be within the power of those actors to achieve

Features:
actors
content
process
capacity

Question 9

What is the structure of the policy content? (4)

Answer 9

objectives
principles
procedures
instruments

Question 10

What are the stages of the policy process and what are they?

Answer 10

agenda-setting: problem recognition
formulation: proposal of a solution
adoption (or decision-making): choice
implementation: putting solution into effect
evaluation: monitoring results

Question 11

What are the key actors in the overall policy process (4)

Answer 11

insitutional actors (e.g. governments, presidents)
non-institutional actors (e.g. political parties, media)
public administration (e.g. key component of institutional actors)
public management (e.g. crucial in policy implementation)

NOTE: Public management and multilevel governance requires mapping all potentially relevant actors (institutional and non-institutional)

Question 12

What are main features of Public Policy Theory?

Answer 12

explicitly normative
multidisciplinary
problem-solving oriented

NOTE: Lasswell is considered the fater of public policy as a political science subdiscipline

Question 13

From what perspectives is public policy as a science contested?

Answer 13

Positivism and Post-positivism (constuctivist)

Positivism: best solution can be found technically
Post-positivism: solution can be found only politically (there is no best solution)

Difference: def. of “common good”

Question 14

What are the key features of the deductive approach?

Answer 14

public choice & class analysis

public choice: actors as rational utility maximisers
class analysis: groups (not actors) try to maximise their interest, and the state is a product of the capitalists

Question 15

What are the key features of the indeductive approach?

Answer 15

pluarlism, (neo)corporatism, neo-institutionalism, statism

Pluarlism: Groups legitimate the Sate
(neo)corporatism: State legitimates the groups
neo-institutionalism:
statism:

check notes

Question 16

What are the four modes of regulation?

Answer 16

no regulation: does not exclude people, does not preserve, no cost
privatisation: excludes people, preserves, limited collective cost
state property: does not exclude, preserves, universal cost
common property: includes selectivels, preserves, shared cost