(Fall 2019) Public Policy POL 211- A01

Chap 13                                                                    Politics, Analysis and policy Choice         The way policy makes design and advocate for public policies can make them more or less effective, efficient and fair, and also spark intense opposition by those who object to the policy goals or the particular means to achieve those goals. These is no guarantee that policies will work or have the impact for which policy makers and the public hope; even if they do, some other interest group or segment of the population might find their effects unacceptable. Public policy is defined as what governments and citiz...

Chap 12                                                                Foreign Policy          Foreign policy refers to the collection of government actions that affect or attempt to affect United States national security as well as the economy and political goals associated with it. Foreign policy can deal with matters as diverse as international trade, economic assistance to poor nations, immigrations to the United States, building of political alliances with other nations, actions on human rights abuse around the world and strategic military actions abroad. Foreign policy involves a great diversity of policy actors, among the most important a...

Chap 11                                          Environmental and Energy policy        Climate change is having significant effects throughout the world, such as shrinking glaciers and persistent droughts and the problem is certain to grow much worse unless the United States and other nations sharply reduced their greenhouse gas emission. Environmental scientists argue that a more useful way to understand the environment is to see it as set of natural systems that interact in complex way to supply humans and other species, with the necessities of life, such as a breathable air, clean water, food, fiber, energy and the recycling of waste. Humans now are so numerous and use of nature to such an extent to meet their needs that they threaten to disrupt these natural systems and lose ...

Chap 10                                                              Education        Education, especially public education fulfills many of the nations basic goals and has done so since the country’s founding. Education is one of the many services that people take for granted. For some students, it provides the knowledge and skills that enable them to continue their studies and college, however, receiving a quality education is a difficult task. Statistic suggest that United States students are not performing at the same level as their counterparts in other countries. Government took it upon itself to provide education for both moral and political reasons. Morally, education...

Chap 9 POL 211                                                 Welfare and Social Security       Poverty continues to be a major concern for the nation and many of those in poverty are senior citizens despite their receipt of social security benefits. Social security is one of those programs in which economics, politics and ethics intersect, leading to a variety of opinions about the program and what, if anything to do about it; moreover, social security is considered an income maintenance program and such programs are put in place to address concerns about poverty and to ensure an adequate income. In the other hand, welfare programs are governments subsides to the poor. Recipients must prove their income falls below ...