INFLUENCING POLICY 17B

Classifying the Politics DistributedConcentrated Distributed Majoritarian Politics Entrepreneurial Politics Concentrated Client PoliticsInterest Group Politics

Majoritarian Politics  Benefits, Costs  Debate in ideological or cost terms  Military budget  Social Security  Cure for Cancer  Reducing drug use  Antitrust legislation Sherman Act Federal Trade Commission Clayton Act Standard Oil Microsoft

Interest Group Politics  Benefits, Costs  Debate carried on by interest groups  Labor/management  Cable TV  Banking deregulation Wagner Act NLRB OSHA Taft-Hartley

Client Politics  Benefits, Costs  Rational Ignorance = people unaware of costs  Pork barrel projects Farmers- welfare Airlines- homeless  Agency Capture Dairy Sugar Telecommunications  Courts, Regulation, Licensing  Legitimacy?

Entrepreneurial Politics  Benefits, Costs  Work on behalf of unorganized majorities  Dramatize Issue  Legitimacy Antipollution Love Canal Superfund Public safety and health Ralph Nadar Upton Sinclair Brady Bill

Capture  Risk of client politics  Newer agencies not as vulnerable  Must enforce specific standards  Usually regulate many different industries  Strengthen the hand of “public interest lobbies”  Sympathetic allies in the media  Easier for groups to use federal courts

Perception  Interests and beliefs are in conflict  Struggle to define the costs and benefits  Here-and-now argument  Cost argument  Values judgment  Self-interest? Deregulation Process regulation Limit of ideas