PO111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Bertelsmann Foundation, Social Mobility, The Who
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Democracy gives us a process criteria for how, as a society, we decide things: who should be involved in decision making, how we make decisions, what values decision-making should serve more generally. Usa is gridlocked due to differing ideals of policy makers. What about other ways of judging a country"s performance: governance (no country has perfect score) capacity of government to make and implement policy in other words to steer society. Performance: what does government deliver, how does it identify ** Who is invited to the table to solve the problem at hand? (ex. Changing daycare system get parents involved, get teachers involved: corporations, ngos, academics, citizens, experts depends on the issue, the who is important, but so is the how . Also related to the how is government transparency. What about canada: harper government has failing grade in transparency, governments guard information, ex.
