POLI 1P98 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Pacific Partnership, Corporatism
21 Mar 2018
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What are interest: anyone who claims a stake in a policy decision and who seeks to influence that decision. Interests usually take the form of groups (i. e. interest groups), though they are sometimes influential individuals. Interests may have material self-interest ( e. g. , industry associations, labour unions) or they may have selfless causes (e. g. , environmentalists) In any given policy process, there are usually opposing interests ( with policy- makers stuck in the middle. Ca(cid:374)ada(cid:859)s policy (cid:373)aki(cid:374)g (cid:858)style(cid:859: a policy making style refers to the interest that participate in policy making and how they are reconciled, canada: policy style can be described as centralized pluralism: Pluralism is a policy process characterized by multiple, competing groups seeking to influence policy decisions. Pluralist processes tend to be relatively open and unstructured. In canada all interests compete to influence the centre of government (i. e,. the pm and.
