POG 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Neoliberalism, Decommodification, Negative Relationship

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Politics and Public Administration
• Course: POG 100
• Professor: Joerg Wittenbrinck

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Origin: united states (core principle of the american constitution is that the states principles are related. Spend an enormous amount of money on military but all economic decisions are made by the state) Characterized by separately elected (executive branch (president) and legislative branch (congress) Principles: unified head of state and head of government, separation of powers, checks and balances. Citizens want it all from their institutions: effective government (maximized in the. Tradeoffs between these models of decision-making can explain cycles of discontent and social movement activity. (*see lecture 9*) Public policy: whatever governments choose to do or not to do (dye 1984, 1) or a course of action or inaction chosen by public authorities to address a given problem or interrelated set of problems (pal 2001, 6) Definition: the collection of social policies intended to provide social security, opportunity and social justice. Comprehensive system of social protection emerged after world war ii. Esping-andersen (1990): three worlds of welfare capitalism.