HECOL300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Root Mean Square, Global Governance, Moral Agency
23 Jan 2018
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Values inform policy and values are shaped by policy *like the debate of who came. Saturday, september 12, 2015: note: values are the bridge between politics and policy, 3 approaches to understanding this bridge. Political philosophy (moral agency of the state) Political sociology (politics as a social mirror) Policy sciences (policy making as what ought we to do: also normative, but good questions on what to do in the face of a particular circumstance, helps identify the policy"s underlying values. They are the basis for choice, because they are motivators of action (steward) like how we use our values (consciously or not) to inform choices. Instrument-related values ways in which the policy is enacted (heavy-handed. *controlled tightly by the state for example) : administrative values values of public servants of the policy . Inevitable incompatibility between values and the incremental nature of policy decisions *changes in the problem de nition, nature/context of policy, policy processes, and policy instruments.
