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Public Policy quiz 6
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| policy feedback | policies can be both outputs of policy process as well as inputs into the process; policy influences policy |
| e.g. of policy shaping policy | people are still fighting for/against Affordable Care Act |
| e.g. of policy shaping politics (policies -> politics -> policies) | Roe v. Wade affected policy in conservative states to reduce it, eventually led to Dobbs reversal (new policy) |
| policyscape | political landscape laden w/ existing policies created at earlier points in time and structure multiple dimensions of politics |
| e.g. of policyscape | Affordable Care Act based on existing MedicAid and MediCare |
| policy (design, resources, implementation) leads to | attitudes and behaviors of: elites, mass public, institutions, interest groups |
| policy analysis | used to predict most valuable approaches to solving social problems; uses policy feedback to see if it works |
| policy process | whether adoption is feasible and how to make it feasible |
| streams of inquiry to understand policy feedback (between policy time 1 and 2) | meaning of citizenship, form of government, power of groups, political agendas and definition |
| policy agenda and problem definition | shapes future conflicts, new constituencies created (e.g. citizen's minds changes), upkeep |
| upkeep | created policies place themselves on agenda perpetually |
| governance | shapes future alternatives, affect administration arrangements, limit gov action, resources (can we afford?), public v private? |
| power of groups | new groups created from new policies, visibility of costs and benefits, design of policies affects creation of social movements |
| e.g. new groups created from new policies | pro-life groups created/bigger after Roe v. Wade |
| e.g. of design of policies affecting social movements | 1964 Civil Rights Act, led ppl to start fighting harder for voting rights, led to 1965 Voting Rights Act |
| meaning of citizenship | members of political community, status/standing of citizens, identity, created for enslaved Black Americans and kids |
| citizenship | rights, duties, obligations, imposed by gov as well as citizen's responses to them, including political attitudes and participation |
| mechanisms of policy feedback for mass politics | civic engagement; feeling of gov listening to ppl |
| e.g. policy feedback | Social Security: if a politician tried to mess with it, their career is over (super popular) |
| resource effects | fungible resources increase civic engagement, incentive to keep benefit, affected by party |
| e.g. resource effects | fungible resources = GI bill; incentive = senior citizens and social security |
| interpretive effects | policies affect how ppl see selves as citizens, those who earned a benefit must prove need, effects of efficacy |
| effects of efficacy | how well you feel your gov represents you; leads to civic engagement |
| policy feedback looks at __ why? | history to see where we are now and determine/predict how policy shapes future |
| external (to subsystem) context | external parameters, long-term structures, short-term constraints and resources, events |
| group 1 (and 2) | members, policy positions, beliefs |
| e.g. of group policy positions | exec branch changes its mind based on who's in office |
| debate | major issues, points of consensus/conflict, framing, facts and evidence |
| advocacy coalition framework (ACF) | model/framework for understanding interactions of groups and coalitions of advocacy coalition groups, 2-4 form based on beliefs |
| beyond the macro | scholarship on policy focuses on macro politics features; ACF looks to interaction of specialists as they learn problem/solutions |
| scholarship on policy focus on macro politics | changes in socioeconomic conditions, social movements, terrorism |
| 3 premises to ACF; 1 | need to study policy over long period of time (10 yrs or more) |
| 3 premises to ACF; 2 | policy subsystems focus (interaction of actors from dif institutions) |
| 3 premises to ACF; 3 | policies can be understood like belief systems: pursue policies to promote their values |
| core policy beliefs | never changes, central to group's belief system |
| e.g. core policy belief | Indigenous ppl of Bears Ears protecting land |
| policy core belief | may change if smth very influential occurs |
| secondary aspects | most likely to change as actors learn abt effects of policy implementation |
| policy subsystem | unit of analysis (e.g. Bears Ears debate) |
| assumptions to ACF | subsystem actors could be anyone trying to influence affairs; individuals are rational, don't need context to form opinions |
| assumptions to ACF part 2 | individuals prone to "devil shift"; subsystems simplified by aggregating actors into advocacy coalitions |
| devil shift | tendency of losing sides of policy debates to cast winners in negative light |
| advocacy coalitions | form on basis of shared beliefs and coordination strategies |
| e.g. advocacy coalitions | county wants Bears Ears not a monument for tax revenue, businesses want it not a monument to build/ make money |
| external parameters | basic attributes of the problem and distribution of resources; sociocultural values and structure, constitutional structure |
| external events | changes in socioeconomic conditions, public opinion, governing coalition, other policy positions |
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