Health Sciences 3400A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Presupposition, Making Money, Royal Canadian Mounted Police

• School: Western University
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: Health Sciences 3400A/B
• Professor: Kathleen Gamble

Document Summary

Concerned with what difference it makes: how it effects how we live our lives. Political and social sciences: and the ability of this discipline to describe, analyze and explain public policy. Policy is to be thought of qualitatively not quantitatively: formal lengthy discussion of a subject. In this course we are thinking about public policy. Form of political discourse that takes place on levels of government. Primary agent of public policy is the government. Private business decisions, decisions by charitable organizations, interest groups and other social groups or individuals are not in themselves public policies: however they can influence policy. It is the job of politicians to create and transfer this information over to us (the public) To understand the causes and consequences of policy decisions. This should improve our knowledge of society: problem solving. To study the cause and consequences of the policy which can be used to seek solutions and practical problems: policy recommendations.