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The only institution in society able to enforce its will on all others through the legitimate use or threat of force.
What is government?
The second theoretical step in the policy making process.
What is agenda setting?
It is the formal political agenda.
What is the insitutional agenda?
It is also known as successive limited comparisons
What is incrementalism?
"To encourage, discourage, prohibit, or prescribe private action"
What is the definition of public policy?
The determinants of a public problem.
What are cost and scope?
The most common method of policymaking.
What is incrementalism?
The consideration of how the goals of policy match with the results of implementation.
What is policy evaluation?
A type of policy where there are no costs or benefits attached.
What is symbolic policy?
"The process by which policies enacted by government are put into effect by relevant agencies"
What is implementation?
Giving legal force to policy decisions.
What is policy adoption.
In measurement performance this is when we assess what went into creating a policy or its program
What is input measurement?
When we try to find key differences between similar systems in a comparitive study.
What is Most Similar System (MSS)?
"Rules governing the behavior of individuals and agencies, and are intended to produce compliance"
What are mandates?
According to John Kingdon, when this type of window opens up, one goes into the policy stream for a solution to the problem.
What is a problem window?
Family of Nations is a specific example of this school of thought/approach
What is the cultural school (or cultural-values approach)?
The 4 policy types included in Theodore Lowi's typology.
What are distributive, redistributive, regulatory, and self-regulatory policies?
"The transfer of authority among individuals and agencies in order to alter the system by which public goods and services are delivered"
What is system-changing?
The theory of policy making that relies on a cost and benefit analysis of each of the alternatives.
What is rational choice (rational-comprehensive) theory?
In this particular school of thought, the formal and informal institutions and rules determine policy action.
What is the institutional school/approach?