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key terms to understand:
public policy
moral politics cf politics of compromise
moral: non-economic values
moral: politicized by single-issue groups
moral: federal judiciary is primary decision maker
mainstream cf radical politics [right or left!]
new politics
identity politics
instrumental/utilitarian values cf moral absolutes
[cont.]
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incrementalism
single-issue groups
types of policies:
distributive
towards facilities, benefits of common to all [Interstate Highway/ R&D, etc.]
constituent [i.e., constituent parts of the system]
towards structures, e.g. educational systems and value-free policy, radical and substantive defin. of Constitution cf mainstream and process definition
regulative
towards conduct, e.g., economic system
redistributive
towards status, e.g., social security, monetary policies
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Social regulatory policy
: "the exercise of legal authority to affirm, modify, or replace community values, moral practices, and norms of interpersonal conduct."covers claims into rights, legislation into litigation, issues into moral polarities, grays into blacks and whites and campaigns into causes and crusades.
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Why is the Brown Decision considered instrumental policy suggestions and Civil Rights legislation movement considered moral?
Why do moral issues end up so vividly on the political scene
status anxiety
deeply held values inculcated in traditionalist cultures
postmaterialistic values:
belongingness
self-actualization
Lowi: "Radical elements are inevitable in a society as dynamic as ours, and the society would be less healthy and less productive without the radical." [a Platonic-like challenge to the conventional?]