POSC411 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Overton Window, Poverty Threshold, Policy Analysis
16 May 2018
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POSC411 Midterm Study Guide
a) Politics
b) Distribution of power
c) Types of inequality
d) Yardsticks of Inequality; how we measure inequality
e) Poverty
f) Poverty as absolute deprivation
g) Poverty as culture
h) Poverty as lack of social capital
i) Poverty as structure
j) Policy analysis
k) Framework for understanding public policy
l) Social welfare policy
m) Evolving welfare-state
n) Poverty units of measure
o) Poverty line
p) Types of power
q) Inequality
r) Sources of inequality
s) Poverty as a phenomenon (three categories)
t) Poverty as relative
u) Poverty as a lack of human capital
v) Poverty as exploitation
w) Poverty as inequality
x) Policy advocacy
y) Summarization of theories/models of public policy agenda setting
z) Welfare state
aa) Goals of public welfare
bb) The concept of minimum needs
cc) Poverty Threshold
1) Discuss Americas reluctance to be a welfare state
2) Discuss the premises for studying social welfare and its historical foundations as presented in
chapters 1 & 2
3) Write an essay discussing why we have a social welfare system and the conceptual foundations of
social welfare policy as presented in chapters 1 & 3
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