POLS30040 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: National Instant Criminal Background Check System, National Rifle Association, Synecdoche
12 Sep 2018
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Public policy: course of government action or inaction in response to public problems. Regulations and practices of agencies that implement programs. Policy outputs: formal actions that governments take to pursue their goals. (ex) a grant program for state programs to improve student achievement. Policy outcomes: effects those actions actually have on society. (ex) how much a grant program actually increases student achievement. Goal of the government: to make our lives better. Challenges: determining when we need government, different ideas of (cid:396)better(cid:397) 3: trade offs, human behavior (ex) prisoner"s dilemma. Finding a single measure on which to judge. Prisoner"s dilemma: a model that depicts how two rational agents behave in a way that makes them both worse off. Exclusive: someone can be prevented from using it. Common pool resources (cid:396)the commons(cid:397) (ex) air, water. Collective action problem: individuals pursue rational self-interest bad collective outcome. Policy is necessary in order to prevent collective irrationality.
