AP gov chapter 17
Example of distributive
$2 billion dollars in grants to research colleges
Obese people
60 million people being discriminated against via employment, insurance, seating. Government done nothing
Example of fragmentation
61 board security congress committees all on how to regulate boarders
Public policy
A plan adopted by a government to address a problem or threat
Example of redistributional
Alabama shift taxes to take from wealthy and give to poor
Example of policy formulation
Americans with disabilities act
Policy evaluation
Analysis and follow up on policy to see how effective it is
Daylight savings time
Captialism, agriculture, electricty (awake and spending more money, growing more crops using less electricty cuz more light)
Who are in issue networks
Congress lobbyists scholars lawyers
Iron triangle
Congress, bureaucracy, interest groups
Example of issue networks
Drug co. Insurance co. Environmental groups. Consumers
Example of regulation
Environment standards or trucking regulations put down via NAFTA
Incentives
Give a reward for doing what government wants
Distributive
Gives benefits to specific group or institution
Disincentive
Gov setting policies to discourage certain behavior
Regulation
Government intervention in a business market to meet a goal
fragmentation
Government may address a problem in different and competing ways
Incentives and disincentives
How does the government encourage people to do what they want
Pluralism
Issue networks plural of majoritarian
Example of implementation
Medicare drug program, obamacare
Nonprofits
Organizations work for public good and aren't part of gov
Example of nonprofits
PTO, Salvation Army, Ozone house, SASA
Issue definition
Part of agenda setting: way we think about a problem
Feedback
Part of policy evaluation: via studies, surveys, polls how effective was policy
Implementation
Policies are carried out by gov (local state or federal enforcing laws)
Policy formulation
Policies proposals are developed and officials decided whether to adopt them
Agenda setting-policy formulation-implement-evaluation
Policy making process
Ethics in government act of 1978
Prevents in and outer from lobbying former government office for one year to stop "revolving door"
Agenda setting
Problems are defined as political issues
Issue networks
Shared knowledge groups of representatives of various interests involved in specific policy
Example of disincentive
Sin taxes on cigarettes,alcohol,and gambling
Example of agenda setting
Social security reform
Redistributional
Takes resources from one group and transfers it to another
Example of incentive
Tax deduction from charitable donation
Distributive, redistributional, regulation
Three types of public policy
Example of coordination
War on poverty, using dept. of homeland security to unite all committees
Example of policy evaluation
Was TANF effective?
Coordination
When government tries to unite different groups to address an issue
President,congress,interest groups
Who sets the agenda
No perfect policy, must always be changed and improved
Why is the policy making process cyclical
Terri schiavo
Woman how had her feeding tube removed
