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- The expansion of state activity
- The role of government in the third world
- Box: Why are the world's states expanding?
- Constraints and Conditions for Policy
- Defense Policy
- Area of policy where governments have held a monopoly
- Lots of variation across countries as far as defense expenditures
- Education
- Research and development
- Very important to industrialized countries
- Box: Planning for Environmental sustainability in Costa Rica
- Health and social welfare
- Most modern states have accepted some responsibility for health, housing, old age security of citizens
- Things governments do to promote social welfare.
- Large variations in social welfare expenditures.
- The place of power in policy analysis
- Examples:
- The Demographic Challenge
- Economic development compared with "human development"
- Uganda, an African AIDS success story
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