PPAS 3190 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: For Marx, Advocacy Group, Public Choice

• School: York University
• Department: Public Policy and Administration Studies
• Course: PPAS 3190
• Professor: Sirvan Karimi

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Week 2: policy making process continued---------theoretical approaches to the study of public policy. In accordance with the degree of emphasis placed on the significance of structures, institutions and agency, these theoretical explanations can be classified into the liberal, 1-the liberal approach: unit of analysis: individuals and groups. Pluralism / pluralist model; liberal is not just a single perspective there are variants on it explaining how policies are created emphasis is on agency structures or institutions. Liberal is a unity of an analysis the individual individual and group is unity of analysis. For weberian unit of analysis is structure of institutions. 2 policy making is seen as a process of bargaining through these rational self- serving agents. These organized groups strive to further the interests of their members. Public policy is the outcome of accommodation between these competing interests. Interaction of state and non-state actors in policy making process.