Part Six: Public Policy “Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies.

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Part Six: Public Policy “Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.” – Edmund Burke (Irish statesman)

Public Policy  Decisions the govt makes to address issues and solve problems Inputs: Interest Articulation Interest Aggregation Machines are the political institutions: Legislature, Executive, Bureaucracy Gears=Policy Making Outputs/ Outcomes: Policy Implementation

Public Policy  Common issues:  Economic Performance  Social Welfare  Civil Liberties  Environment

Public Policy – Economic Performance  Common Measures of Economic Performance  Gross Domestic Product (GDP)  All the goods and services produced by a country’s economy in a given year, excluding income earned outside country  GDP per Capita: GDP divided by population of country  Gross National Product (GNP)  GDP + income citizens earned outside the country  GNP per Capita: GNP divided by population of country  Purchasing Power Parity (PPP)  Like GNP, except it takes into account what people can buy using their income in local economy  PPP per Capita: PPP divided by population of country

Example of PPP: the Big Mac Index 

Purchasing Power Parity

Public Policy – Social Welfare  Social Welfare  Health  Employment  Family assistance  Education  Measures of Social Welfare  Literacy rates  Distribution of income  Life expectancy  Education levels

Public Policy – Social Welfare Gini Index  A mathematical formula that measures the amount of economic inequality in a society  0 = perfect equality, 1= complete inequality U.S. (2009).41 UK.36 Russia.375 Iran.383 China.415 Nigeria.43 Mexico.48

Public Policy – Social Welfare Human Development Index (HDI)  Measures the well-being of a country’s people by factoring in life expectancy (health), mean & expected years of school (education) and GNP per capita (living standards)  Health + Education + Living Standards = HDI Index Scale  Index scale is 0 – 1 (decimal score)  Scores over.80 = high levels of HD  Scores under.50 = low levels of HD

Public Policy – Social Welfare

Human Development Index Darker colors indicate more developed

Public Policy  Civil Liberties: Political Rights and Freedoms  Political rights – promotion of equality  Political freedoms – promotion of freedom  Freedom House Rankings  Ranks countries on 1 to 7 scale  1 = most free, 7 = least free Country (2013) RatingPolitical Rights Civil Liberties ChinaNot Free 76 IranNot Free 66 MexicoPartially Free 33 NigeriaPartially Free 44 RussiaNot Free 65 UKFree11 USFree11

Public Policy - Other  Environment  European countries – formation of “green” parities  International conferences  Population  Immigration + migration  Other  Terrorism  Corruption

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