PAF 1250 Lecture 17: PAF1250 12/5
11 Dec 2016
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Public policy: an attempted solution to a public problem. Public policy in real life is messy in how it get done. A decision not to intervene is also a policy. There are different situations, pressures, the context is different. Identifying the problem that now you will try to solve a: legislative and executive branches are proactive, courts/judicial branch is reactive d, what you identify as the problem matters. Mon/wed 10:45-12:00 pm: policy implementation, actually do it b, e) early childhood education (important policy) Implement policy that has been approved: policy evaluation, effectiveness i. If the benefits outway the cost ex) recycling was so expensive -> very inefficient: equity (or equitable) ex) sanitation i. If it is delivered to all residents/ constituents in the same manner. 1: stop and frisk -> issue about equity, responsiveness i. When they make decisions or informed on public opinion. You do what you feel is best. Even if it"s against what the public thinks.
