GVPT 273 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Corporatism, Air Pollution, Quality Management

• School: University of Maryland
• Department: Government and Politics
• Course: GVPT 273
• Professor: Stephen Arves

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A(cid:374)doli(cid:374)o, jessi(cid:272)a r. a(cid:374)d charles h. blake. (cid:1006)(cid:1004)(cid:1004)(cid:1005). (cid:862)theories of poli(cid:272)y-maki(cid:374)g. (cid:863) The cultural school: maintains that some societies are more skeptical about government than others. This reduces the probability of government policy creation and expansion. In other societies, cultural traditions are more supportive of government intervention and tend to support its expansion. Vs the scandinavian family which is seen as more collectivist in its cultural norms, thus leading to more support for government expansion: german and latin families stand between these traditions. German has a deeply rooted federalist approach to political organization that checks government expansion, but also have collectivist societal groups. In the 60s and 70s there was overall support for the expansion of government spending in most countries, but during the 1980s and 90s, the situation changed. Majority supported more spending on specific issues but did not support for government spending in general.