POG 214 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Public Law, Soft Law, Responsible Government

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Politics and Public Administration
• Course: POG 214
• Professor: Carolyn Johns

Document Summary

Public policy decision-making: policy decisions usually produce some kind of a formal or informal statement of intent on the part of authorized public actors to take (or not to take). It is state centered: can be characterized by: the choice among policy alternatives that have been generated and their likely effects on the problem estimated. It"s the most overtly political stage as many potential solutions to a given problem must somehow be examined but one (or a few) are selected. This only gives them a voice and not necessarily a. Parliamentary systems tend to fall in the former (elected executives). Early models of decision-making: rational model, asserted that public policy decision-making was inherently a search for maximising solutions (considering costs and benefits). It"s rational in the sense that it prescribes procedures for decision-making that, in theory will lead every time to the choice of the most efficient possible answer.