Test #3 Flashcards
Refine public policy
Any decision or action by a govemmental authority that results in the allocation of something that is valued
Tripes of public policy are
Functional
Objective. - distributive, redistributed regulatory extractive, symbolic
What, the process of public policy decision making?
Problem identification
Problem definition
Specification of alternate response s
Policy selection and enactment
Policy implementation
Public evaluation
Policy continuations /modifications, termination
Policy prescription
Advocates propose that public policies should be adapted and how they should be implemented
Actors can you be influenced by studies analysis or some agent of political socialization
Name the three ideal types that explain public policy decision making
Elite approach ,class approach and pluralist approach
Elite approach
Key characteristics: politics characterized by political stratification, political elite run it, the mass second
According to US: c. Wright Mills who are the elites?
Warlords
Corporation chieftans
Political directorate
Elite approach the ruling elite do what
Rich people in power making policies
What does the under structure/government do in the elite approach
They are the puppets of the elite that do with the elites say used as disguise
What’s the role of the mass of elite approach
Regular people that are apathetic/Basically don’t care this approach is common in non-democratic countries
Are the key characteristics of the class approach
Shares concept of stratification like the Eli approach
Identifies classes as well
However there is evidence of class conflict
Explain the diagram of the two different characterizations of the class approach
Pluralist approach
Pluralism involves multiple groups that compete actively for political interests
In the pluralist approach many different political resources may influence what what
Policy decision makers by many number of supporters political skill and status
What is the step process of the policymaking Pluralist approach
Number one establish rules of the game for the group struggle
Number to determine the interest of competing groups in the levels of political resources mobilized by those groups
Number three find a public policy that Approximately balances the positions of all active groups in terms of interest and resources
Number for an act these balance points as public policy decisions
Number five implement the resulting policy
The downfall of the pluralist approach
Pluralism rejects idea that small elite or single class dominates public policy process
Some groups are likely to win every time
Money trumps all other resources
Government not neutral but guided by strong ideology