SOC 4900 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Decision-Making, Speech From The Throne, United Kingdom Cabinet Committee

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 4900
• Professor: pudis

Document Summary

A course of action or inaction chosen by public authorities to address a given problem or interrelated set of problems. Who"s not involved in: product of competing ideas about the problems the government should address and how those problems are defined, what is the ideological perspective, policymaking can appease public outcry to appeal to voters. If it needs to be changed, the cycle runs again. Cabinet stage: review and decide what the government wants to pursue. Review by departments to determine if legislation is required. Throne speech: given by the governor general to open something. Memorandum to cabinet: department of justice, bill sent to department of justice for drafting. Government decides timing of introduction and which house to introduce the bill (usually hoc) Second reading; debated: introduced in the hoc or senate, referral to committee, receive testimony from expert witnesses; interested parties, review bill clause-by-clause, committee votes on bill.