Public Policy Flashcards
I. What is public policy?
B. Facets of public policy
- Policy choices
- Putting Choices into action
- The effects of policy
I. What it is public policy?
Types of Domestic Policy
- Distributive Policy
- Protective Regulatory Policy
- Competitive Regulatory policy
- Redistributive policy
- Crisis policy
I. What is public policy?
Types of Foreign policy
- Structural policy
- Strategic policy
- Crisis Policy
I. What is public policy?
Types of Intermestic issues
Terrorism & Homeland security
Immigration
International trade
Environmental issues
III. Process
A. Five stages of the policy-making process
B. Agenda-setting
C. Making policy choices
D. Budgeting
E. Implementing policy
F. Policy evaluation & change
III. Process
A. Five stages of the policy-making process
- Agenda-setting
- Making policy choices
- Budgeting
- Implementation
- Evaluation
III. Process
B. Agenda-setting
- Political agenda
- Political entrepreneurs
- Governmental agenda
III. Process
D. Budgeting
- Revenues & expenditures
- Mandatory and discretionary spending
a. ) Mandatory spending
1. / Entitlement programs
2. / Interest on the debt
3. / Other forms of mandatory spending
III. Process
E. Implementing policy
- Bureaucracy
- Rules & routines
- Coordination of resources
- Staffing & funding
IV. Politics
A. Factors affecting policy change
B. Political patterns that shape domestic policy
C. Tendencies in American foreign policy
IV. Politics
A. Factors affecting policy change
- Incrementalism
- Conditions for major change:
a. Sense of nat’l urgency or crisis
b. alignment of political forces in direction of change
IV. Politics
B. Political patterns that shape domestic policy
Distributive policy
• policies that subsidize activities gov’t wants to promote
Protective regulatory policy
•rules & actions intended to protect public by setting conditions for various activities to take place
Competitive regulatory policy
•rules & regulations designed to limit provision of specific goods and services by controlling who may deliver these services or products
Redistributive policy
•rules and actions designed to alter the distribution of wealth, property, rights, or other values in society
IV. Politics
C. Tendencies in American foreign policy
Walter Mead’s 4 schools of American foreign policy:
Hamiltonians
Wilsonians
Jeffersonians
Jacksonians
IV. Politics
Hamiltonians
- View the US as a great power in the world & see this as appropriate
- comfortable with use of military power & diplomacy with regimes of different types
- expect that world trade will eventually lead to an international system that is freer, more prosperous, and friendly to the US
- Promote US commercial and financial interests overseas
IV. Politics
Wilsonians
- Believe the US has both a moral & practical obligation to spread democratic forms of gov’t worldwide
- The moralistic, crusading strain in US foreign policy, deeply interested in the domestic behavior of other states
- Strongly prefer peaceful resolution of international conflicts, but can be military and missionary cast once at war.
IV. Politics
Jeffersonians
- Emphasize the need to avoid military interventions or alliances abroad
- US must be an example to others, but should keep its own affairs and not intervene forcibly overseas
- Moral and financial costs of US foreign policy strategy should be kept to a bare minimum
- Fear corrupting effects of international power politics & war on US traditions of limited government, including increased debt, taxes, large armed forces, and erosions of civil liberties
IV. Politics
Jacksonians
- Intense American nationalists, based in the country’s heartland
- Take great pride in the nation’s military and look to protect the sovereignty, honor, economic well-being, & security of the US in a dangerous world
- Generally skeptical of elite-sponsored legal, multilateral, and idealistic plans for international improvement, including US commitments to that end
I. What is Public Policy?
A. Definition: principles upon which social laws are based
B. Facets of Public Policy
C. Domestic, Foreign, and “Intermestic” Policy
