POLI 101 Lecture Notes - Paul Krugman, Softwood, Patient Protection And Affordable Care Act

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Plans for today: introduce course topics and objectives, discuss requirements and assessment, explain outline of topics. I topics and objectives: a dire assessment. The nixon era [1969-1974] was a time in which leading figures in both parties were capable of speaking rationally about policy, and in which policy decisions weren"t as warped by corporate cash as they are now. Paul krugman, new york times, august 31, 2009. How does it look four years later? (discuss. : a dramatic statement of the issues: public policy is the main test of a political system. We have various ideas about how political systems operate. Some common ideas about us politics (and sometimes other systems): Government is controlled by business, or the wealthy. The public is intelligent and gets what it wants. The public is ill-informed and gets harmful or. Government responds to the preferences of the public. (two versions. ) irrational policies. Divided institutions ( separation-of-powers ) lead to deadlock and incoherence.

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