POL S 170 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Monopsony, Market Power, Rationality
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The traditional approach to policy analysis o. Identify objectives and specify the discrepancy between them and the status quo: develop alternative strategies for achieving objectives o o. Predict the outcomes each alternative is likely to produce. Select evaluative criteria and use them to assess the impacts of the outcomes likely to result from each alternative o. Recommend/ choose the alternative that maximizes attainment of the specified objectives. Instead argues that analytical concepts, problem definitions and policy instruments are themselves political claims (subject to strategic manipulation) rather than universal truths) Interests- the sides in politics, groups that have a stake in an issue or are affected by it (stone) An interest based approach derived from rational choice theory in economics argues that if you want to understand why a particular policy took the shape it did look from the policy decision. Assumes policy is the result of competition and negotiation among organized groups.
