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Budgeting and Tax Policy
LEARNING OUTCOMES By the end of this section, you will be able to: Discuss economic theories that shape U.S. economic policy Explain how the government uses fiscal policy tools to maintain a healthy economy Analyze the taxing and spending decisions made by Congress and the president Discuss the role of the Federal Reserve Board in Read more »
Policymakers
LEARNING OUTCOMES By the end of this section, you will be able to: Identify types of policymakers in different issue areas Describe the public policy process Many Americans were concerned when Congress began debating the ACA. As the program took shape, some people felt the changes it proposed were being debated too hastily, would be Read more »
Policy Arenas
LEARNING OUTCOMES By the end of this section, you will be able to: Identify the key domestic arenas of public policy Describe the major social safety net programs List the key agencies responsible for promoting and regulating U.S. business and industry In practice, public policy consists of specific programs that provide resources to members of Read more »
Categorizing Public Policy
LEARNING OUTCOMES By the end of this section, you will be able to: Describe the different types of goods in a society Identify key public policy domains in the United States Compare the different forms of policy and the way they transfer goods within a society The idea of public policy is by its very Read more »
What Is Public Policy?
LEARNING OUTCOMES By the end of this section, you will be able to: Explain the concept of public policy Discuss examples of public policy in action It is easy to imagine that when designers engineer a product, like a car, they do so with the intent of satisfying the consumer. But the design of any Read more »
Introduction to Domestic Policy
On March 25, 2010, both chambers of Congress passed the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act (HCERA). The story of the HCERA, which expanded and improved some provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), also known as Obamacare, is a complicated tale of insider politics in which the Democratic Party was able Read more »
Controlling the Bureaucracy
LEARNING OUTCOMES By the end of this section, you will be able to: Explain the way Congress, the president, bureaucrats, and citizens provide meaningful oversight over the bureaucracies Identify the ways in which privatization has made bureaucracies both more and less efficient As our earlier description of the State Department demonstrates, bureaucracies are incredibly complicated. Read more »
Understanding Bureaucracies and their Types
LEARNING OUTCOMES By the end of this section, you will be able to: Explain the three different models sociologists and others use to understand bureaucracies Identify the different types of federal bureaucracies and their functional differences Turning a spoils system bureaucracy into a merit-based civil service, while desirable, comes with a number of different consequences. Read more »
Toward a Merit-Based Civil Service
LEARNING OUTCOMES By the end of this section, you will be able to: Explain how the creation of the Civil Service Commission transformed the spoils system of the nineteenth century into a merit-based system of civil service Understand how carefully regulated hiring and pay practices helps to maintain a merit-based civil service While the federal Read more »
Bureaucracy and the Evolution of Public Administration
LEARNING OUTCOMES By the end of this section, you will be able to: Define bureaucracy and bureaucrat Describe the evolution and growth of public administration in the United States Identify the reasons people undertake civil service Throughout history, both small and large nations have elevated certain types of nonelected workers to positions of relative power Read more »