Thursday November 13

Public Policy

Discussing Economics and Externalities 

Administrative Items for Class

• PAPER DUE ON TUESDAY - Questions?

• Announcements?

• What is "New & Groovy in Public Policy?" 

THE PUBLIC POLICY TOOLKIT

• Definitions - What is public policy?

• Contexts - What information is needed when making policy?

• Models - What are specific ways to analyze policy making?

• Federalism - Recognizing Levels of Gov't & Tools Used

• Variables - Cause (IND) and Effect (DEP)

• Process  - Stages of Public Policy 

• Data Conclusions "Filling In Gaps" and Policy Consistency

• Policymaker Types 

• Lowi Policy Categories

• Evaluation  - DEALING WITH EXTERNALITIES

USBudget.com            1999

BUDGETS – Entitlements/Mandatory  v.  Discretionary Spending  (PP 155, 157)  

DEFICIT and the Debt Clock and   USTreasury

THE FY Budget Making Process And      Budget Simulation

   Economics Evaluation and the Environment

SHOULD WE DRILL FOR MORE OIL IN ALASKA?

Environmental, Economic and Evaluation Policies

• Play in Peoria - Policy Environment in Systems Theory

• Indicators - IN ANY policy LIKE HEALTH

• Before and After - What policy/contextual event changed things (9.11.01)

• Others? _____________

• Pre/Post

• With v. W/out

• Cost/Benefit Analysis  NIH and at Berkeley and Law Schools

• Symbolic and Tangible Effects

• Ratios...

  628  

  Theories Influencing a Policy Environment - Continuum of Ideologies

  VERY PRO _____________________________VERY CON

  Economics and the Environment

Budget Simulation and the Environment (CRS)...Domestic Policy -- For the Planet

SHOULD WE DRILL FOR MORE OIL IN ALASKA?

  Section 1002

Wrestling with Group Behavior Evaluation, Economics and and COMPLEX Issue Networks

  Yes - ANWR.org and Both Sides  and No-MSNBC.com

ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY

PUBLIC CHOICE Theory, Group Theory and Externalities  

17. What is the cost of a sunrise over the Great Smoky Mountains?

Q.   What is the price of clean drinking water for our children?

Priceless….yet in today’s world it actually must HAVE a price

in order to be considered as a policy issue.

COST/BENEFIT RATIOS and ASSESSMENT OF RISK

Potable, Swimmable, Fishable, Grey and Waste Water

History – Many years…..1970 Earth Day to today

Legislation/Regulation - EPS

Approaches – Command and Control v. Market Influenced

  Keeping Track of the PolicyMakers           From both sides (Hard Green)

RESOURCE POLLUTION and RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

 Policy Orientation

Best cleanup ever in past 30 years

OR

Rearranging Deck Chairs on the Titanic

Harbinger of disaster in next 30 years

Air– CAA and CAAA  removing particles and gases

Types and Sources

• Motor Vehicles – CO and SO2
• Industrial and Power Generation – NO x and SO2
• Day-to-Day use – PM10s, Acid Rain

Water    - WPCA

• Pollution – Runoff, Chemicals, Nitrogen/Farming
• Management – Wetlands, Coastal,  Sewage Treatment

Waste

• US 4 pound/person/day  * 365 = 1,500 pounds/person/year
• Double waste rate of 1960
• BILLIONS OF DOLLARS in municipal waste removal and storage
• Toxic Waste -  Chemical, Nuclear/Radioactive  Superfund - NPL

Land

• Wilderness – National Parks, Nat'l Forests
• Endangered Species Act – Bald Eagle, Snail Darter
• Urban Growth – Sprawl, Greenspaces and Culture

TAKINGS – When the government tells you to do something to your land in order to

Better protect the environment; are they taking away your rights?

POLLUTION CREDITS and EMISSIONS TRADING – Should pollution be trading in the open market

In the same way that stocks, commodities and other financial means are?

GROWTH – Is growth the only measure of a society’s success? 

LOCAL ISSUES…But a global context   “Think Globally, Act Locally.”

GAME THEORY - Made Real...