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Lecture Notes



Lecture Notes

These lecture notes serve as brief summaries of each lecture, and offer questions to promote further discussion.


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I. What Do We Fight About?
1Introduction
2Public vs. Private Problems(PDF)
3Policy Goals: Equity, Efficiency (Welfare)(PDF)
4Policy Goals: Security, Liberty (Homeland Security)(PDF)
5Globalization(PDF)
6Globalization (cont.)
II. Problems And Solutions
7Ideas and Power in the Policy Process(PDF)
8Defining Problems: Symbols, Numbers and Causes(PDF)
9Attaching Solutions to Problems: Policy Entrepreneurs & Tipping Points(PDF)
10Defining Problems: Interests, Experts, and the Media (Health Care)(PDF)
11Devising Solutions: Rules, Facts, Rights, Power, Inducements(PDF)
12Social Security(PDF)
13Social Security (cont.)
III. The Conventional Approach To Resolving Disputes
14

Resolving Disputes in Congress (Taxes)

(PDF)
15Resolving Disputes in Agencies (Endangered Species)(PDF)
16Resolving Disputes in Agencies (cont.)(PDF)
17Resolving Disputes in Courts (School Desegregation)(PDF)
18Resolving Local Disputes (Hazardous Waste)(PDF)
19Peer Editing, Essay 3
20Adversarial Decision-making Processes
IV. Alternative Approach To Resolving Public Disputes
21Direct Democracy: Ballot Initiatives(PDF)
22Resolving Disputes Through Deliberation(PDF)
23Negotiated Rulemaking(PDF)
24Collaboration / Consensus-Building (Wetlands)(PDF)
25Peer Editing Essay 4
26Collaborative Processes

 


 








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