POG 214 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Policy Network, Nationstates, Discourse Community

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Politics and Public Administration
• Course: POG 214
• Professor: Carolyn Johns

Document Summary

Ideas are a range of possible and feasible solutions embedded in broader political culture and institutions. This ranges from program ideas, symbolic frames, policy paradigms and public sentiments. Institutions: defined as structures and organizations of the state, society and the international system. They embody formal and informal rules including norms and ideas. Important institutions in canada: treaties, constitution, written and is also a convention. It embodies a federal political system with a division of powers. In canada we have a parliamentary system with a concentration of power in the executive i. e. the cabinet and the bureaucracy. We have an independent judiciary and strong provincial policy institutions. Confederation political system, law and policy: executive and legislature, bureaucracy, courts. Interests/actors: actor and interests involved in public policy with the inclusion of individuals, groups, classes and nation-states, examples, elected politicians: executive (cabinet/government) and legislators, central role derives from its constitutional authority to govern the country.