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Chapter Seventeen Policymaking
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Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. 17-2 Public Policies and Purposes A public policy is a general plan of action adopted by government to solve a social problem, counter a threat, or pursue an objective. All public policies are the means by which government pursues certain goals within specific situations.
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Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. 17-3 Public Policies and Purposes (Cont’d) People disagree about public policies because they disagree about one or more of the following elements: The goals government should have The means it should use to meet them How the situation at hand should be perceived
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Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. 17-4 The Policymaking Process Difference in values causes people inside and outside of government to disagree on goals. Value conflict often places freedom versus order or freedom versus equality at odds.
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Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. 17-5 Types of Policies Distributive policies, which allocate resources so that some segment of society can receive a service or benefit, Redistributional policies, which are explicitly designed to take resources from one sector of society and transfer them to another, and Regulation: rules which guide the operation of government programs and business markets.
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Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. 17-6 The Policymaking Process (Cont’d) Achieving objectives in policy involves different approaches or tools. The basic public policy tools include: Incentives, which suggest that people can be induced to do certain things if the rewards become substantial enough Disincentives, which are policies that discourage particular behavior
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Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. 17-7 Basic Public Policy Tools (Cont’d) Government offering a service or program, and the Establishment of rules.
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Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. 17-8 The Policymaking Model Four stages 1.Agenda setting: The stage during which problems get defined as political issues, 2.Policy formulation: The stage in which formal policy proposals are developed, often incrementally, and officials decide whether to adopt them as legislation, regulations by administrative agencies or court decisions,
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Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. 17-9 The Policymaking Model (Cont’d) 3.Implementation: The stage in which policies are put into effect. 4.Policy evaluation: The stage that analyses the results of the policy. These stages, when combined, represent a circular process.
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Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. 17-10 Figure 17.1: The Policymaking Process
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Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. 17-11 Fragmentation and Coordination Multiple forces pull government in different directions and make problem solving less coherent than it would be ideally. Although some degree of fragmentation is inevitable in a decentralized, federal system of government, mechanisms of coordination can bring some coherence to policymaking.
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Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. 17-12 Issue Networks The working relationships developed between many different parts of government and many different sets of participants counter the argument of a fragmented, pluralist system.
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Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. 17-13 Issue Networks (Cont’d) Issue networks consist of groups of individuals from inside and outside the government who share knowledge and work together to develop policy in a specific area. Policymaking takes place not only within institutions but also among them. Entry into an issue network is facilitated by a mastery of the technical complexities of the policy area.
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Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. 17-14 The Nonprofit Sector Nonprofit organizations are neither governmental organizations nor private sector organizations and do not distribute profits to any entity. Most nonprofits supported by a mix of public and private funds. Nonprofits have a role to play both in administering and developing policy.
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Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. 17-15 Figure 17.3: America's Nonprofits
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