FHCE 5100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Family Educational Rights And Privacy Act, Temporary Assistance For Needy Families, Public Choice
10 Jun 2018
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Making and Evaluating Public Policy cont.
Consumer Interest
− Public consumer interests: taxpayers are the consumers; represent consumers as a whole
• Examples: drugs, drinking and driving, people not getting vaccines, sex trafficking
− Private consumer interest: individual consumers; not as a collective group
• Examples: LGBTQ community, FERPA (protect students from parents)
Protecting Public Consumer Interest
− Governments make people better off by creating public goods
• Meaig that oe perso’s ejoet of the good or serice does’t diiish
aother perso’s ejoet of the sae good or serice
• Examples: public parks, sunshine, riding on the train, lakes
− Governments can also address puli ad’s
• Examples: pollution, overcrowding, noise
Which Governments Provide Which Public Goods
Federal
State
Local
Defense (army & navy)
Roads, highways (gov tells
states if they want $ for
highways, the drinking age
must be 21)
Police and fire
Diplomacy (sending
ambassadors overseas)
Universities & schools
Public schools
The Mint (printing $)
Health & welfare (TANF)
County attorneys
National Security (NSA)
State police
Public libraries
Interstate Commerce
State parks
Local parks
Social Insurance (social
security)
Metal health facilities
Planning/zoning
Protecting the Private Consumer Interest
- Governments do good by making individual people better off – creatig policies that…
• Support private enterprise (businesses)
• Support idiidual’s freedos
o Example: 16 year old with cancer who was not given the choice to stop
treatment
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