| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Policy Analysis | concerned with "who gets what", "why", and what difference does it make" Not only concerned with what policies govt pursue, but why, and the concequences. |
| Public Policy | what the goverment does or does not do |
| Distributive Policy | provides benifits for those who behave in a manner described by the agency. Often called subsitites or grants. No "needy", just a need to participate in the program. |
| Redistributive Policy | shifts pulic tax dollars in an attempt to alleviate poverty. Must be poor by goverment definition. (Ex. Tax Credit, Income Deductions) |
| Substantive Policy | refers to the "what," particularly if a good or service is delivered. It can be distributive or redistributive in its content though. It is written by legislators, Congressional members, or council/board members and takes the form of bills, acts or ordinances. |
| Procedural Policy | refers to the "how" of policy and it is regulatory in nature. It is written by bureaucrats after they have been assigned a policy to implement. It is what 'breathes life' into policies and create programs. |
| Symbolic Policy | It neither gives benefit or punishes. Generally, it appears in the form of resolutions. Here, legislators or council members resolve to 'feel' a certain way about some thing, or might recognize through a private bill, some individual for something he or she did. Keep in mind though, this type of policy does NOTHING materially. |
| General Regulation | impose a standard of conduct or a method for engaging in a particular profession or occupation. For example, you cannot wake up tomorrow and start selling hot dogs on the street corner. You are required to apply for a business licenses, a tax identification number and a health certificate. |
| Protective Regulations | are intentionally sought out by certain professions to regulate their occupation. (Ex. Bar exams for lawyers.) |
| Adjudication | is the legal process by which an arbiter or judge reviews evidence and argumentation including legal reasoning set forth by opposing parties or litigants to come to a decision which determines rights and obligations between the parties involved. |
| Iron Triangle | an alliance of sub-governmental units along some mutually beneficial line. |
| Models | are a way to simplify the complicated. |
| Oversight | Congress checks the bureaucrats and makes sure that in fact, they are implementing the law as Congress would like. |
| Systems Model | According to Easton, "The political system is that group of interrelated structures and processes which function authoritatively to allocate values for a society." System theory portrays public policy as an output of the political system. |
| Pluralist Model | It is also referred to as group theory model. It begins with the proposition that the interaction among groups is the central fact of politics. |
| Elite Model | suggests that "the people" are apathetic and ill-informed about matters of policy, that wealthy actually shape mass opinion on policy more than the masses shaping higher up opinion. |
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