psy290 Study Guide - Final Guide: Tax Expenditure, Treasury Board, Canadian Content

• School: Athabasca University
• Department: general science
• Course: psy290
• Professor: student E

Document Summary

Ladder of regulation. move from less coercive forms of regulation, up to more. The instruments of governing: exhortation vs regulation: self-regulation expenditure public enterprise. Gov would rather give new policy rather than police. Instruments used to accomplish goals, can be political, independently affect process and content of policy-making. Diff instruments entail different degrees of coercion. The extent to which governments should push you around is inherently political. Exhortation pm/ministerial statements; collecting & releasing information; advocacy advertising; advisory & benchmarking activities; consultative activities or bodies for example royal commissions, task forces & other public inquiries; symbolic politics. Expenditure grants; subsidies; transfer payments; tax or other monetary incentives; loans. Regulation command and control regulations (formal rules), taxes, user fees, tariffs, fines, imprisonment, market-based regulation. Public enterprise crown corporations; public-private partnerships; gov"t ownership of shares in private firm; public purchase of services provided by private sector: exhortation: government by exhortation is about voluntary appeals to the electorate.