UAPP225 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Congressional Budget Office, Congressional Research Service, Federal Communications Commission

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Urban Affairs and Public Policy
• Course: UAPP225
• Professor: David Carter

Document Summary

Some major policies: civil rights, regulation of business cycle (dodd-frank act, public and private education (essa, nclb, etc, worker"s rights (min. wage, children, environmental protection, public health programs, food and drug admin, federal communication commission. Interstate highway system: federal housing authority, social security and medicare. Why do we study policy: public policy profoundly affects citizens, about solving problems. Informs many disciplines: we study public policy for, scholarly reasons (understand, know, guide, practical reasons (make a difference for people, to know how to influence the system . Simplified terms: politics: who gets what , public policy: what government chooses to do or not do , the policy process: the process by which politics is translated to policy . Values: rights and fairness: right an entitlement to something, human right to life, liberty, and security of person, universal and have very high standard, moral imperative, moral obligation.