POLI 357 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Canadian Human Rights Commission, Health Policy
27 Sep 2016
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Poli 357 intro to public policy september 14, 2016. Politics is who gets what, when, and how. harold d. lasswell. Therefore, the study of politics is who gets what, when and how. Can talk about them in terms of typologies . Lowi"s typology (1964) first person to type policies. He said there were three: regulatory protective policies. Sometimes meant to break things up, so powers built by other companies have to share with smaller businesses. Rogers) which do not have to share with others: distributive most uncontentious policies. You support me, i"ll support you : redistributive most contentious and most difficult to get past. Typically involve disadvantaged groups who do not have political power. These typologies help us to identify patterns of policy. Diverse activities by different bodies are drawn together into stable and predictable patterns of action which (as often as not) come to be labelled. The key here is a state organization is involved.
