Health Sciences 3400A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Basic Income, Smoking Cessation, Drug Education

• School: Western University
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: Health Sciences 3400A/B
• Professor: Maxwell Smith

Document Summary

Introducing taxes: produce and sell however sellers want, getting taxes, putting taxes to drug and addiction programs, how to market to the general public, don"t want flashy branding on the packaging. The set of techniques by which governmental authorities wield their power in attempting to ensure support and effect or prevent social change: want to change people"s behaviours, want to make policy objectives. The means by which policy objectives are pursued: also known as, policy tools, policy techniques, policy means. Why are policy instruments important: even when there is broad agreement over policy objectives, there are often disagreements about the means by which those objectives should be pursued. Instruments for government action set up relationships between the state and its citizens: discourse on public policy instruments is discourse on power. Labelling (e. g. , menu labelling in restaurants: will help policy makers to choose which ones are best for their policy objective.