POSC240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Social Contract, Sanctuary City, Gie

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POSC240
• Professor: gerasimenko,olga

Document Summary

Intro to public policy- 1/3/17 & 1/4/17: introduction. Politics is about all that we have together: deciding about our collective resources and determining about what our values are. An intentional course of action: not something that happened by chance. Developed and followed by governmental institutions and officials: make decisions on how they are going to handle our collective resources and determine what our values are, entities that are given formal legal authority to. To solve an issue of public concern. Public policy is a purposeful, goal oriented behavior: set out to solve a problem that is going to relieve human problems. Policy is what the government does in providing services: (i. e. college students need housing, education. Older people worry about retirement, health care, etc. Public policy based on law and it is authoritative. Public policies are often determined by the politics.