Assignment:
Overview of Instructions: For the second topic, your initial post (roughly 300 to 500 words) should summarize how the respective political economic perspective perceives The political Economy of Gender, in terms of proper role of government, actual role of government, and proposals for reform.
select one of the proposals discussed. NOTE: Clark discusses the different policy proposals in different ways in different of the. For some he has a clearly identified section for policy proposals, but in other chapters the proposals are embedded in his discussion of the principles of that political-economic perspective. Using the following sub-headings, describe how the Conservative Perspective applies to the questions:
1) How would the specific public problem be identified/defined,
2) is there a preferred policy and/or policy type (Lowi: distributive, redistributive, regulatory, or self-regulatory) that is advocated (or is it a mixture) to alleviate the problem, and
3) which proposal (for this problem or policy area) would be considered most important to pass/implement from a conservative perspective and which proposal do you think would be the most feasible to pass/implement under the current policy/political environment and why.
Analyze the current policy/political environment from the conservative perspective. Would they think this proposal is likely to pass and what would they say is the reason they assess it in that way.