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POLI 3319

Comparative Public Policy

0.5 credits · Undergraduate

Fall 2015

Topics

  • answer the following questions for Canada, the US and the UK
  • For economic policy, health policy, and employment policy
  • Under what circumstances can change in the policy occur?
  • What are the main characteristics of the policy-making process?
  • What are the main characteristics?
  • What are the main issues facing the country?
  • What are the political positions regarding this policy?
  • What is the public service doing to put the policy into practice?
  • Who are the significant political actors in the country, individuals or groups?
  • How does the analyst distinguish between significant and insignificant actors?
  • What influence do various actors have on a particular action?
  • What are the resources on which the political system rests? Which are scarce?
  • Which are essential? How do political actors manage them?
  • What factors favor which political actors?
  • Who are the significant political actors in the policy making community
  • individuals or groups?
  • What influence do various actors have on a particular policy?
  • the policy-making process?

Readings

  •  Readings as indicated on course calendar to be retrieved through Zotero;  Ten Core Worksheets, and More Strategic Activism, by Laure Paquette,
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