Week 3 Flashcards
Micro policy
-minor changes
-increasing funding to community health centres
-increasing housing subsidy amounts for tenants
Meso policy
-operation of mid-level institutions like advisory boards or government departments
-creating a telehealth line
-changing eligibility requirements for social assistance
Macro policy
-broad issues like the general shape of political systems and how power is wielded
-bigger scale
-creation of a national daycare program
Pluralism
-like consensus model
-interest groups are the most important unit of analysis
-still bias, some political groups only listen to certain interest groups
2 models of pluralism
-eatons model of the political system
-kingdons policy stream convergence
Critiques of pluralism
-fails to consider role of political power or ideology
-offers simplistic explanations
New institutionalism
-some pluralism but also includes the influence of institutions
-explains and states that government structures develop over time and persist
-policy makers are constrained based on the institutions that currently exist
Sub types of new institutionalism
-historical institutionalism
-rational choice institutionalism
-sociological institutionalism
Historical institutionalism
-analysis of institutions over time (how they have functioned/operated in the past and why)
Rational choice institutionalism
-looking at economic policies etc
Sociological institutionalism
-also looking at how culture and norms has influenced policy
Critiques of new institutionalism
-doesnt look at how policy develops or changes over time
-institutions change so not best unit of analysis for explaining change
Political economy approach
-market approach
-focus on economic, political, and social structures
-concerned with mode and production
-feminist political economy
Main tenets of neoliberalism
-markets perceived as most efficient in production and distribution of resources
-societies are comprised of autonomous individuals
-competition is primary source of innovation
-governments should be very small
-there should be few government regulations
-goal of society should be economic growth
