HECOL300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Occupy Wall Street, Arab Spring, Neoliberalism
23 Jan 2018
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Pay attention to policy players" on the policy eld. Players" can be: government agencies, interest groups, associations, social movements, and others domestically and internationally. Important for governments to acquire information from non-governmental actor > need for cooperation to implement. The nature of these communities and networks is crucial to policy development and implementation > especially for decentralized government and devolution of power: cheaper when communities can deliver services, can determine success of policy implementation. 1st model: pg. 236 policy community bubble diagram & pg. 240. (+) maps actors, understand their relationships, make predictions about the process. Don"t capture the complexities of policy processes. Policy networks are not just domestic ex) international governance bodies like the un, Don"t include technology in network formation and development *technology powerful factor in policy and dif cult to predict. Don"t necessarily have stable values or identify based coalitions. Government decentralization brings government closer to the people. Government reliance on community due to government downsizing.
