POLSCI 2F03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Path Dependence
10 Sep 2014
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Continued employments and dependence on those who have power to invest. Gov of alberta have a sense of the economic wellbeing of societytherefore will not go against interest of those operations. Speaking to citizens and not to interest groupsthe idea of new public managements where the state should directly interact with individuals and not interest groups. Skepticism of interest groupswho are relatively unrepresentative of public opinion . They need subsidees, so they have incentive to go and argue. Narrow groups can obtain large gains for themselves at the small cost of citizens. Narrow interest groups can pressure state and the rest of us don"t have enough incentive to go. We should speak directly to citizens, we can poll them and interact with them Actors which influence space in terms of interest groups. Interest groups have a particular set of entrees. Where policy communities exist is imp for interest groups usually exist in line departments.
