PUP 3002 FSU Exam 1 – Questions With
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Government action designed to address the
demands of a set of citizens to resolve a social issue
Public Policy The Study of Public Policy:
-The systematic, scientific analysis of government
activity, including laws, regulations, and funding
priorities, and its influence on society.
-Accountability
Why study public policy? -Efficiency gains
-Equity of policy delivery
Whose interests precisely are being served by the
Accountability
government?
-In order for democracy to succeed, the governed
must consent to the ruling government body.
Consent of the governed
-In order to consent, citizens must be informed of
government actions.
-The process by which policies are passed and
implemented
The study of public
-Why specific policies are pursued and why others
policy attempts to
are not
answer:
-How well do government actions fit citizen
demands.
, Policy efficiency
-Whether the resources, time and energy of a policy
are delivering the greatest policy outcomes, for a
given level of resources
Which policies most effectively solve the underlying
Efficiency Gains
problem at the lowest cost?
How we can improve policies to:
-cost less
-provide more
-ideally... both!
The extent to which a government delivers the
benefits of a policy evenly across all communities.
Are all communities treated equally or do certain
Equity
communities benefit disproportionally?
-wealth
-ethnic makeup
-economic class
-Nation; state; local
Federalism -National and state possess constitutions
-Different goals and policy preferences
Executive: president, governor, mayor
Legislative: two houses (at the national and state
level)
Executive and legislative
-Goals and policy preferences often vary between
competition
branches
-Often, varying goals and preferences between
members of legislative
-National, state and local all possess an array of
Judiciary criminal, civil and administrative courts
-Prosecute violations of executive and legislative
, -Democracy makes policymaking difficult
-Competing interests, institutional barriers, and
public opinion make solving societal problems
tedious and costly
Democracy vs. Autocracy
-Likely better than the autocracy
-Citizens have control over government
-Governments must appease citizens to stay in
power
-Proposed by Harold Laswell (1951)
-A heuristic demonstrating the pathways by which
The policy making
policies are identified, proposed, evaluated,
process
implemented and terminated.
-7 stages
1. problem and solution identification
2. agenda setting
3. policy formulation
The 7 stages of the policy
4. alternative formulation
making process
5. policy selection and adoption
6. policy implementation
7. policy evaluation
-How do social issues become defined as social
problems?
-Once social issues have been defined as social
problems, how are solutions to those problems
identified?
Step 1: problem and -Stakeholders
solution identification -Policy demands
-Credible action
-Who gets what is determined by pressure
-That said, 'collective action problems' exist among
stakeholders
-Connecting problems to solutions
-The policy entrepreneur
Stakeholders Those who are affected by a policy problem
The demands exerted by stakeholders on the
Policy demands
political actors
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Terms in this set (137)
Government action designed to address the
demands of a set of citizens to resolve a social issue
Public Policy The Study of Public Policy:
-The systematic, scientific analysis of government
activity, including laws, regulations, and funding
priorities, and its influence on society.
-Accountability
Why study public policy? -Efficiency gains
-Equity of policy delivery
Whose interests precisely are being served by the
Accountability
government?
-In order for democracy to succeed, the governed
must consent to the ruling government body.
Consent of the governed
-In order to consent, citizens must be informed of
government actions.
-The process by which policies are passed and
implemented
The study of public
-Why specific policies are pursued and why others
policy attempts to
are not
answer:
-How well do government actions fit citizen
demands.
, Policy efficiency
-Whether the resources, time and energy of a policy
are delivering the greatest policy outcomes, for a
given level of resources
Which policies most effectively solve the underlying
Efficiency Gains
problem at the lowest cost?
How we can improve policies to:
-cost less
-provide more
-ideally... both!
The extent to which a government delivers the
benefits of a policy evenly across all communities.
Are all communities treated equally or do certain
Equity
communities benefit disproportionally?
-wealth
-ethnic makeup
-economic class
-Nation; state; local
Federalism -National and state possess constitutions
-Different goals and policy preferences
Executive: president, governor, mayor
Legislative: two houses (at the national and state
level)
Executive and legislative
-Goals and policy preferences often vary between
competition
branches
-Often, varying goals and preferences between
members of legislative
-National, state and local all possess an array of
Judiciary criminal, civil and administrative courts
-Prosecute violations of executive and legislative
, -Democracy makes policymaking difficult
-Competing interests, institutional barriers, and
public opinion make solving societal problems
tedious and costly
Democracy vs. Autocracy
-Likely better than the autocracy
-Citizens have control over government
-Governments must appease citizens to stay in
power
-Proposed by Harold Laswell (1951)
-A heuristic demonstrating the pathways by which
The policy making
policies are identified, proposed, evaluated,
process
implemented and terminated.
-7 stages
1. problem and solution identification
2. agenda setting
3. policy formulation
The 7 stages of the policy
4. alternative formulation
making process
5. policy selection and adoption
6. policy implementation
7. policy evaluation
-How do social issues become defined as social
problems?
-Once social issues have been defined as social
problems, how are solutions to those problems
identified?
Step 1: problem and -Stakeholders
solution identification -Policy demands
-Credible action
-Who gets what is determined by pressure
-That said, 'collective action problems' exist among
stakeholders
-Connecting problems to solutions
-The policy entrepreneur
Stakeholders Those who are affected by a policy problem
The demands exerted by stakeholders on the
Policy demands
political actors
