Social Construction & Policy Design (videocast slides)

Slides from PADMN 6320/POLS 5320 Public Policy Theory and Administration at the University of Utah's Programs of Public Affairs

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1. Social Construction & Policy Design SLIDES
2. Policy design Social construction Policy feedback Target populations
3. Policy design The elements that constitute a public policy, such as the citizens and groups it pertains to, the activities required (or prohibited) by its rules and provisions, and the plan of action by which it is intended to realize its objectives
4. Ted Lowi
5. Types of public policy… Distributive Redistributive Regulatory
6. Policies distribute Benefits Burdens
7. Policies create politics “policy feedback” “feed-forward” effects
8. Social construction Shared understandings about the world that make up concepts, identities, norms, and stereotypes
10. Social construction Shared understandings about the world that make up concepts, identities, norms, and stereotypes
11. Social construction
12. Social construction of target populations small business owners the unemployed LGBTQ community immigrants political officials “minority” populations
13. Social construction Benefits Burdens Policy design Policy feedback/ feed-forward effects
14. Positive Negative Less More ADVANTAGED CONTENDERS DEPENDENTS DEVIANTS SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION POLITICAL POWER small business owners the unemployed political officials “minority” populations
15. Positive Negative Less More ADVANTAGED + benefits - burdens CONTENDERS + benefits + symbolic burdens DEPENDENTS DEVIANTS - benefits + burdens SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION POLITICAL POWER + symbolic benefits + burdens
16. How do different target groups’ social constructions help explain the benefits and burdens they receive through public policies? How does a group’s social construction change over time, and does this explain changes in the policies that pertain to it? How do the benefits and burdens established by policy designs reinforce and/or help change social constructions?