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Didi HillPolitical Science 102 9:40-10-55October 30, 2013Chapter 9 Study Guide Questions & Answers1. What is public policy? What are some examples of it?(pg. 233) Public policy is any decision or action by a governmental authority that results in the allocation of something that is valued. Examples: A security unit can arrest a suspected terrorist; a national government can decide to declare war on a rival country2. What are the 4 general approaches to the study of public policy?(pg. 233) 1) to classify and compare various types of public policies by means of taxonomy 2) analyze the various stages of the policy process and attempts to explain the dynamics at each stage 3) studies the impacts of a particular public policy because what matters is how the policy makes a difference in the lives of the individuals and the groups 4) more prescriptive, evaluating what public policy ought to be implemented, given existing goals, conditions, and resources. 3. What are the 5 different types of public policies?(pg. 234-236) 1) Distributive: providing goods and services, beneficial, mainly money given to people to perform these tasks 2) Redistributive: taking one thing from a place and giving it to another place 3) Regulatory: controls the manner to which you do something, limits actions, examples: speed limit, abortions 4) Extractive: taking money 5) Symbolic: giving someone a medal for service4. What is the policy process? What are the stages?(pg.236) Sequence of events from idea to completion of the idea; 1) Issue Identification 2) Problem Definition 3) Specification of Alternatives 4) Policy Selection 5) Implementation 6) Evaluation5. Why are there always actors trying to influence public policy decisions?(pg. 239)Every public policy affects someone’s interests therefore there will always be people against or for the public policy being established.6. What are the 3 “political” explanations of the public policy process? What do they provide?(pg. 239) 1) the elite approach 2) the class approach 3) the pluralist approach; they each provide a different explanation of how politics works, how influenced is exercised, and what forces seem to shape the decision that result in public policy7. What are the two key concepts of elite approach? What are the two major stratums? What is mass? What is the third stratum in the middle of the pyramid?(pg. 240-241) Politics(the struggle for power to control policy) and political stratification(the population that is segmented into separate groups that are in layers with higher or lower amounts of power); the two major strata: does more of what there is to do(in the public policy process) and gets more of what there is to get(in valued impacts from policy decisions) Mass: does less and gets less; the third stratum is the political understructure: political officials and administrators who carry out the elite’s policy directives 8. What is the shared concept between elite approach and class approach? What is the stratum in class approach?(pg. 241) Stratification; Classes: a large group of individuals who are similar in their possession of or control over some fundamental value9. Who is Karl Marx and how does he divide society?(pg.244) He is the best-known class theorist, he differentiates classes primarily on the basis of a group’s relationship to the major factors of production in the economic system; he separates society into 2 classes: 1) the capitalist class: includes those who own significant amounts of the major factors of production 2) the proletariat class: includes those who own little more their own labor10. What are some of the modifications to Marx’s ideas that contemporary analysts suggest using?(pg.241) They usually identify more than just 2 major class strata, characterized by political, social, and economic; some argue that it is control (rather than ownership) of the means of production that is most important; some point out that the key elementsthat distinguish different class strata are status, kinship, ethnicity, religion, or tradition-based authority; others posit that possession of knowledge and information resources has become the crucial resource distinguishing classes in postindustrial, high-tech societies11. What is the third crucial concept of class approach?(pg. 245) Class Conflict12. What can happen if there is conflict between two classes?(pg.246) the lower class can overthrow the higher class meaning new class gains dominance in the system13. What is the pluralist approach? How is it grounded? (pg.246) multiple groups compete actively in the pursuit of their political interests; by the group which is any aggregate of individuals who interact to pursuit a common interest14. What are the assumptions that go with pluralist approach?(pg. 246-247) 1) group memberships are multiple and overlapping 2) many different political resources might influence those who make public policy decisions15. How are the elite and class approaches similar?(pg.252) the fundamental feature of society in both is stratification, the government is one of the key mechanisms controlled by the dominant group and the government’s policy decisions are intended to maintain that group’s domination16. How does Pluralist differ from both elite and class approach?(pg.253) Rejection of the notion of social stratification, it conceptualizes a sociopolitical world composed of many groups, with each individual belonging to multiple


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