Policy Making Flashcards
What is the most important decision that affects policy making?
Deciding what belongs on the political agenda
What are issues that people believe require governmental action?
Political agenda
Is government action increasing or decreasing in scope? Why?
Increasing because changes in attitude and the impact of events tends to increase the number of things government does
What are the 4 factors that determine what politics is about?
Shared political values, the weight of custom and tradition, the impact of events, and changes in the way elites treat politics
What is the idea that as people become better off things hat once were thought normal become intolerable called?
Relative deprivation
How do courts affect the issues that are on the political agenda?
They act as tripwires and set off a chain of events to alter the political agenda
How does the bureaucracy affect policy making?
It is so big that it becomes a source of political innovation
How is the senates role in policy making different than the founders intended?
They now create political change instead of acting as the balance and moderators
How does the media influence policy making?
It both publicizes new matter that are then added to the agenda or publicizes the matters that others added
What are the four types of politics?
Majoritarian, interest group, client, and entrepreneurial
What are widely distributed policies that promise benefits at a large number of people at a cost they will have to bear?
Majoritarian politics
What is the major influence on politics?
the perception of costs and benefits
Which coalition creates narrowly distributed issues fought out by organized interest groups with strong incentive to mobilize?
Interest Group Politics
Why is the public usually not informed about the policies of interest groups?
because they usually do not directly affect the public
What is the type of coalition when a small group benefits but a large group pays the price?
Client politics
