POLS 280 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Representative Democracy, Participatory Democracy, Deliberative Democracy
19 Sep 2016
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Approaches: descriptive- the rules of the game in canada. as they are, normative assessments- efficiency of an institution, its effectiveness. Transparency: explanatory- explanatory variable in understanding policy. Logics embedded in institutions and how they can be obstacles to policy change. National healthcare- rules of the game that divide powers shapes how healthcare develops. Feds have most of the money, provinces have most of the responsibility. No single parent rule- workers of the healthcare system are workers of the state: sociological approaches- mutually constitutive way society and institutions shape each other. Can"t understand canadian political economy if you ignore ties to uk. Shaped our approach to be strongly analytic, not descriptive. First to understand importance of institutions in shaping outcomes. Economic actors who didn"t want certain policies used federalism and judiciary to block that policy. One side, pointing to societal context but also looking to institutional framework of federalism and how that creates conflict between feds and provinces.
