PAM 2300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Child Support, Child Abuse, Gun Control

• School: Cornell University
• Department: Policy, Analysis and Management
• Course: PAM 2300
• Professor: Rosemary Avery

Document Summary

Social regulation: crime policy, child support guidelines, marriage contracts, gun control. Airline regulation: for safety means that the cost of airlines will go up. Symbolic policies: have little real material impact on people, but, they appeal to people"s cherished values, can be highly contentious. How does the government decide whether to provide goods for individuals or groups. Collective: if provided for one, provided for all, e. g. , national defense, public libraries, highways, information, etc. Benefits that may be broken into units for distribution to individual users or beneficiaries: e. g. , public housing, welfare checks, health insurance. Collective: anyone in the country can use it. Private: only certain groups of people have access to medicare. Collective: the government invests in a private benefit to you so that everyone is healthy. Government produces goods and services that afford citizens both individual and collective benefits. The principle of federalism: the state and the government share power.