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Power & Choice, 8/e
W. Phillips Shively, University of Minnesota---Minneapolis
Policies of the State

Chapter Outline


I. The expansion of state activity

II. What do governments do?

  1. transfer of resources

  2. subsidies with strings attached

  3. regulation

  4. development and administration

III. Defense Policy

IV. Education

V. Research and development

  1. Box-planning for Environmental sustainability in Costa Rica

VI. Health and social welfare

VII. Democracy and public policy

VII. The place of power in policy analysis

  1. Example: Norway's program to encourage Norwegian-language publications

  2. Example: Economic development compared with "human development"

  3. Example: Effectiveness of educational policies









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