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PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
Lecture 7:
Policy problems and instruments
LECTURE OUTLINE
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INTENDED LEARNING
OUTCOMES
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PROCESS OF POLICY ANALYSIS
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PROBLEM IDENTIFICATION
AND FRAMING
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PROBLEM IDENTIFICATION
AND FRAMING
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PROBLEM IDENTIFICATION
AND FRAMING
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PROBLEM IDENTIFICATION
AND FRAMING
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PROBLEM IDENTIFICATION
AND FRAMING
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PROBLEM IDENTIFICATION
AND FRAMING
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PROBLEM IDENTIFICATION
AND FRAMING
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PROBLEM IDENTIFICATION
AND FRAMING
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POLICY INSTRUMENT AS
INTERVENTION STRATEGY
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POLICY INSTRUMENT AS
INTERVENTION STRATEGY
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HOW TO CLASSIFY POLICY
INSTRUMENTS?
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HOW TO CLASSIFY POLICY
INSTRUMENTS?
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HOW TO CLASSIFY POLICY
INSTRUMENTS?
Modified choice
approach
Nonintervention Intervention
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A BASIC SCHEME
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A BASIC SCHEME
• Regulations
• Undertaken by governmental units
• Rules and directives
• Mandate receivers to act in accordance with what is ordered
in these rules and directives
• Often associated with threats of negative sanctions
• Varieties of regulation
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A BASIC SCHEME
Prohibitions
Unconditional
Conditional
(Absolute)
With permissions
(concessions,
With obligation
With exemptions permits,
to notify
licenses,
authorizations)
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A BASIC SCHEME
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A BASIC SCHEME
• Information
• Influence people through the transfer of knowledge, the
communication of reasoned argument, and persuasion
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ww1gVA-l0U
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dl3dc-IyhQY
• Providing facts as well as government judgments of particular issue
• Forms of information
• Mediated transmission
• Interpersonal transmission
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A BASIC SCHEME
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A BASIC SCHEME
Strengths Weaknesses
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FACTORS SHAPING
GOVERNMENT’S CHOICE
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FACTORS SHAPING
GOVERNMENT’S CHOICE
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FACTORS SHAPING
GOVERNMENT’S CHOICE
• Automaticity
• Whether administrative arrangement and new resources should be invested
or not
• More automatic programs
• Save on administrative costs
• Less visible of cost
• Hiding a program from scrutiny
• Less automatic program
• Offer opportunity to build political coalition
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