American Government › Section P · Domestic policy › Topic P.2
Categorizing public policy
Why does government build flood barriers but leave sandwich shops to the market? The answer starts with the kind of good involved, and the type of policy chosen then shapes who pays, who benefits and how fierce the political fight becomes.
In this topic
- An argument about the role of government
- Two questions about any good
- Private goods and markets
- Public goods and free riders
- Common-pool resources
- Toll goods
- Worked example: classifying goods
- Lowi's three types of policy
- Concentrated or diffuse costs and benefits
- Worked example: predicting the politics
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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