POL214Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Primus Inter Pares, Human Development Index, Gender Empowerment Measure
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Slide: policymaking we were talking 2 weeks ago about the policy tools and policy instruments that policymakers can use in their toolkits. Slide: policy instruments these are sorts of things that policy makers can do if they want to change or influence public policy. Ignore problem (doing not on = doing something) leave problem to private sector symbolic r ponse (e. g statement, task force) Director general communications, adm human resources, adm policy. Development, senior legal counsel are all appointed on merit, they don"t serve at the pleasure of gov- a pm can"t decide to ditch these kind of people underneath that row there are a whole bunch of people. Introduced merit principle in place of patronage for hiring bureaucrats. Not firmly entrenched until 1930s idea of merit took hold and saw the end of patronage in the bureaucracy. Hiring decisions now based on skills and qualifications of candidates so now based almost exclusively on merit.
