CAS PO 141 Study Guide - Final Guide: Aid To Families With Dependent Children, Early Childhood Education, Prison Education

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Political science: politics of primary importance, policy characteristics secondary. Policy analysis: policy characteristics of primary importance, politics secondary: policy analysis is a problem solving approach to politics. Goal: improvement of policymaking to produce policies that achieve their goals. Rossell: policy analysts have a basic notion of the public interest. Some criterion necessary to judge success of a policy. Criteria for evaluating policymaking: equity, efficiency, and effectiveness. Issue of luck - demands for social justice. Ratio of inputs to outputs or b/c not best criterion. Net benefit or b-c: always choose the policy with the greatest net benefit (best criterion) Lack of basic needs: health, life, basic shelter more offensive than other deficits. Basic needs - the good itself or a voucher. Equity and justice problems resolved through taxation and redistribution of income. Government officials decide the law and the specific standard. Government creates a new kind of market in previously untraded goods.