INFLUENCING POLICY17B

Classifying the Politics

Distributed Concentrated

Distributed Majoritarian Politics

Entrepreneurial Politics

Concentrated Client Politics

Interest Group Politics

Perceived Costs

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Majoritarian Politics Benefits, Costs Debate in ideological or cost terms

Military budget Social Security Cure for Cancer Reducing drug use Antitrust legislation

Sherman Act Federal Trade Commission Clayton Act

Standard Oil Microsoft

Interest Group Politics Benefits, Costs Debate carried on by interest groups

Labor/management Cable TV Banking deregulation

Wagner Act NLRB OSHA Taft-Hartley

Client Politics Benefits, Costs Rational Ignorance = people unaware of

costs Pork barrel projects

Farmers - welfare Airlines - homeless

Agency Capture Dairy Sugar Telecommunications

Courts, Regulation, Licensing Legitimacy?

Entrepreneurial Politics Benefits, Costs Work on behalf of unorganized majorities

Dramatize Issue Legitimacy

Antipollution Love Canal Superfund

Public safety and health Ralph Nadar Upton Sinclair

Brady Bill

Capture Risk of client politics Newer agencies not as vulnerable

Must enforce specific standards Usually regulate many different industries Strengthen the hand of “public interest

lobbies” Sympathetic allies in the media Easier for groups to use federal courts

Perception Interests and beliefs are in conflict Struggle to define the costs and benefits

Here-and-now argument Cost argument Values judgment Self-interest?

Deregulation Process regulation Limit of ideas