PAP 2300 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Secular Morality, Policy Analysis, Internal Consistency

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Public Administration
• Course: PAP 2300
• Professor: Robert Johnson

Document Summary

Simeons explanatory framework: policy as a consequence of, environment, refers to broad characteristics such as demography geography and levels of urbanization. A certain percentage of pop below poverty line, an energy shortage: for example, growth in government everywhere in the. West seems to be generated by population and economic growth, and there are broad similarities in the role of gov in these societies. 2: environmental variables have only limited explanatory value. To the extent they do shape policy, it is as they interact with cultural and ideological predispositions: valuable in comparative analysis as a starting point. Compare two societies with similar environmental characteristics (energy shortage, pop below poverty line. Policy is a function of the dominant ideas, values, theories and beliefs in the society. Culture: basic orientations to the political system as the definition of the relevant community to which obligation is felt.