POG 214 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Optimal Matching, Regulatory Capture, Administrative Behavior

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

Document Summary

Funding must be allocated, personnel must be assigned, and rules of procedure developed to make a policy work. Their function is to assist the executive in the performance of its tasks. This is because of the key role played by laws codifying the results of decision making and empower specific state agencies to put those decisions into practice. How to deal with implementation problems: policy actors can try to enhance their capacity to deal with implementation problems and overcome resource constraints in numerous ways: Implementation theory: bottom up: examined the actions of those affected by and engaged in the implementation of a policy, more organic and decentralized. Importance of values and behaviours of the agents in formal and informal subsystems. Instruments: economic theories of instrument choice tend to be overly deductive and lack solid empirical base in studies of actual instrument choice by governments.