SWP 302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Ontario Health Insurance Plan, Economic Liberalism, Incrementalism
20 Oct 2018
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Monday, September 18, 2017
SWP 302 Week 2
Social Policy = Action & Inaction
Formation Management, Control SS(social structure)
Non-Mkt decisions
Steer Society
Levels = Micro, Mezzo, Macro
Public Policy/ Social Policy/Political Ideology
Models = economic liberalism, social protection, cultural integration
Approach = universal
target
Policy making = incremental/ comprehension
• EI, ODSP, OW = which is more stigmatizing?
• Personal policy – micro
• Ryerson policy – mezzo – organizational
• Country policy – macro – municipal (no smoking, parking)/ provincial (minimum wage,
OHIP)/ federal (immigration, Aboriginal population)
• Homeless people – is it a policy? Issue of homelessness unintended consequences of
inaction becoming a policy
➢ Government deciding not take an action/ no policy is it a policy? *exam question
Social Policy:
o Structure:
o Solve: exists to solve a problem
State = social policies that are social that are not applicable to business
Business =
NGO
• non-profit sector
• when the state makes decisions that are non-business
civil society
Steer society- a free hand (businesses take over)
= in a direction other than that which it would normally go on its own
Public Policy: any policy that involves the public
ex: highway & traffic
➢ all policies are public, but not all social policies are public
➢ all social policies are public but not all are public
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Document Summary
Models = economic liberalism, social protection, cultural integration. Policy making = incremental/ comprehension: ei, odsp, ow = which is more stigmatizing, personal policy micro, ryerson policy mezzo organizational, country policy macro municipal (no smoking, parking)/ provincial (minimum wage, Issue of homelessness unintended consequences of inaction becoming a policy. Social policy: structure, solve: exists to solve a problem. State = social policies that are social that are not applicable to business. Ngo: non-profit sector, when the state makes decisions that are non-business civil society. Steer society- a free hand (businesses take over) Public policy: any policy that involves the public ex: highway & traffic. All policies are public, but not all social policies are public. All social policies are public but not all are public. = in a direction other than that which it would normally go on its own. + hindering the system & trying to change. Go back: logical & methodical process, conservative.
