PUP-3002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Unintended Consequences, Government Failure, Literature Review
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Concepts: policy design, policy instruments, implementaion, policy output, government failure. Planning how a policy intervenion will be conducted: need to understand how diferent stakeholders will respond, consider the moivaions and tendencies of. Implementaion: the process of translaing the goals of policy into an operaional program. Policy instruments: regulate, subsidize, raion, tax and spend, contract out, use market incenives, privaize, charge fees, educate, create public trusts, conduct research. Quick surveys: talk with stakeholders to see tolls they recommend. Literature review: what policy alternaives are out there, think tanks, interest groups. Parallel situaions/ analogies: used in other sectors, for other problems. Policy tools must match the nature of the problem. Output: the goods and services provided by the agency, necessary for bureaucraic accountability, not an outcome. The outputs do not match those speciied in the policy design. Other examples: health care exchange sotware, va health care scandal (inadequate treatment)
