Public Policy
How do we conceptualize Public Policy?
Administrative Items for Class
Attendance
Oral Presentation?
Memos Returned
Remember Policy Paper Topic Precis Coming Up
Announcements? Appl Lecture Series and Constitution Day celebration
What is "New & Groovy in Public Policy?"
PUBLIC POLICY MODELS and CONTEXTS in action...
CONTEXTS OF PUBLIC POLICY
A Model - an approach to follow or duplicate
WHY UNDERSTAND PUBLIC POLICY?
Advocacy
Analysis
Explain
Evaluate
Patterns?! >>>:-)
Others________________?
MODELS OF PUBLIC POLICY - O'Gorman's list (using Kraft/Furlong and others)
Systems Theory - Easton
Institutionalism
Process
Rationalism - 'The Rational Actor"
Incrementalism
Group Theory
Elite Theory
Public Choice Theory
Game Theory
Others (Normative/Empirical)?
David Easton - 1957
Systems Theory - How public policy is created within a larger set of conditions...a graphical approach of understanding public policy.
APPLICATION
In the Media
(From the New York
Times, 9/13/00):
“President Clinton vetoed two
Republican congressional tax-cutting bills in August as too expensive and two
skewed toward the wealthy….some tax relief to small businesses may occur in
the FY 2001 Budget negotiations.”
Can
you see textual evidence of THREE models of politics in the quote above?
Please write down which models you see, based on the evidence, and
explain which words you see that suggest the models you chose.
“The FAA (Federal
Aviation Administration) will set up new airport security procedures in the wake
of the World Trade Center/Pentagon bombings last week.”
(CNN.com)
Can
you see evidence of at least TWO models of politics in the previous quote?
Write down the models, and why you chose them.
Find "evidence" of the use of a policy model on the online news page that you see.
