Political Science 1020E Study Guide - Final Guide: Political Question, Liberal Democracy, Global Governance

• School: Western University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: Political Science 1020E
• Professor: Robert Jonasson

Document Summary

Public policy: a course of action or inaction chosen by public authorities to address a given problem or an interrelated set of problems. Analyzing public policy: analyzing the choice of public policies involves looking at the broad set of forces that set the context for public policy and examining the details of the process that led to the adoption of specific policies. Pluralist perspective: a perspective that views public policies as the outcome of competition among a wide variety of organized groups that seek to protect and promote the interests of their members with no group having a dominant influence. Public choice theory: a perspective based on the assumption that all political actors are rationally attempting to maximize their own individual interests or preferences. Neo-marxist theory: a perspective that views politics as reflecting the conflicts that result from the way society is organized to produce goods.