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The Context for Policy-Making: Central Institutions and Actors - Key Actors

Q: What are corporate actors composed of?

Also composed of participants. But typically they are 'top-down' organizations under control of an 'owner' or of a hierarchical leadership representing the owners or beneficiaries.

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What are collective actors composed of?

Such as social movements. Composed of individuals coordinating their actions; they are dependent on and guided by the preferences of their participants.

What are corporate actors composed of?

Also composed of participants. But typically they are "top-down" organizations under control of an "owner" or of a hierarchical leadership representing the owners or beneficiaries.

How do actors determine the policy outputs?

Three characteristics to pay attention to:
- their capabilities: action resources at the actors' disposal to influence the policy-making process (to make one specific outcome more likely than the other).
- perceptions: The way actors perceive a particular social problem (depending on their ideology they will review potential solutions).
- preferences: choice being made between alternatives.

Actors can also be distinguished according to whether they are public (acting on behalf of the state) or private (acting on behalf of their own preference).

What are the four key points of this paragraph?

- Public actors and private actors participate in policy-making.
- Most central public actors: the executive, the legislature, the judiciary and the bureaucracy.
- Political parties offer specific policy suggestions, which are subject to evaluation by the electorate.
- Interest groups and experts are influential types of private actors.

What are the four core tasks of political parties?

- Coordinating
- Conducting electoral campaigns
- Structuring competition
- Representing
- recruiting members of the legislature, executives, bureaucracy.

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Public Policy A New Introduction | 9781137573292 | Christoph Knill, et al

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