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Power & Choice, 8/e
W. Phillips Shively, University of Minnesota---Minneapolis
Political Choices: The Problems of Justice and Efficiency

Chapter Outline


I. The problem of justice

  1. judging weight of contributions and need

  2. complex issue, involves things often in conflict that need to be balanced

II. Other aspects of justice: procedural justice

  1. "substantive" vs. "procedural" justice

    1. arbitrary policies and due process

    2. special basic rights

      1. right to survive

      2. right to free speech

      3. right to privacy

    1. overriding social needs

III. Efficiency

IV. Modes of decision: incremental vs. radical

V. Modes of decision: authority vs. the market

  1. Box: incrementalism-normative and empirical analysis

  2. Problems with authority-based policy

  3. Problems with the market

VI. Conclusion

  1. Example: political choice

    1. the problem of need-based scholarships

    2. the problem of water pollution

    3. children as collective good

    4. gender-based pension payments









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