PPL 101 Lecture 3: PPL Week 3 Notes
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Tool that allows us to describe policy and apply it where needed. Helps simplify ideas, clarify what we talk about them, and apply and communicate policy where and when needed. Experts and elites dominate policy development: specialized businesses and government leaders, issue network. Public opinion is less in uential (negative critique) Public policy dominated by interest group: continually struggling, counterbalance each other, shape policy through incremental change. Advocacy coalition framework: competing alliances of policy actors from public and private institutions at all levels. Institutional theory: structure and process of a government demonstrates public policy making. Government actors involved: structure and rules can empower/ obstruct policymaking. Policy decisions made by self interested individual policy actors. People make rational decisions to protect themselves. Useful to predict implication of policy alternatives. Administrative behavior: rational choice is not a real thing. We can only make decisions based upon how much time and money we have. Considers pressure on the process from environmental demands.
