POLS 2300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Gomery Commission, United Kingdom Cabinet Committee, Insider Trading
17 Dec 2016
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Pols*2300 week 9: inside public policy and public administration. Essay: no new info in conclusion (makes rest of essay look bad) Government decisions aren"t just made by politicians/their political staffers. Pm has lots of power in the political system but doesn"t have final say over every decision. Public policy is not based entirely on ideology/isn"t bereft of any guiding principle beyond re-electing the government. Directs the nature of the decision but doesn"t implement it. There is no truth to the maxim (cid:498)absolute power corrupts absolutely(cid:499) Pm/premiers have the most power in the canadian political system (cid:498)elected dictators(cid:499) Ex: harper had an identifiable right wing position, but not all his decisions were based on it. There is a cap on when they can exercise their absolute power. Won"t necessarily act like a dictator/corrupted by absolute power. Back to beginning of course: theories of how governments act within political systems. ***1 of the following 3 questions on final***
