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This document provides an overview of different approaches to and perspectives on policy-making, including theories such as political systems theory, group theory, elite theory, institutionalism, and rational choice theory. It also explores the influence of non-state actors, touching upon the rise of non-state actors and their causes and effects.

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PERSPECTIVES AND 6TH. GAME THEORY - Focuses on the idea of competition and APPROACHES POLICY...

PERSPECTIVES AND 6TH. GAME THEORY - Focuses on the idea of competition and APPROACHES POLICY cooperation that will result in the formation of IN incentives to a greater satisfaction for all. MAKING NON-STATE ACTORS AND THEIR INFLUENCE SOCIAL SCIENCE 4 LG 11.1 SOCIAL SCIENCE 4 LG 12.1 Policy - A set of ideas or a plan of what to do in particular situations that has been agreed to State Actors Versus Non-State Actors officially by a group of people. - A plan of action agreed to by a group of STATE ACTORS people with the power to carry it out and - A state is a political unit with ultimate authority enforce it. over an area of territory and the people in it. - Public policy is a tool used by the government - Primary task is to ensure security and to address and meet societal issues and protection for their citizens by providing concerns for the benefit and common good of services. its people. Approaches and Perspectives on Policy Making NON-STATE ACTORS - Organized groups or individuals which are 1ST. POLITICAL SYSTEMS THEORY partly independent of a sovereign state. - Focuses on the political groups in power and - Contributes to many various aspects of state interested in what the people want (inputs) and development. what the government produces (outcomes). - NSAs have influence in the legislation and contribute to the implementation of certain 2ND. GROUP THEORY government projects or government decisions - Focuses on how the groups in power mobilize regarding urgent matter. to achieve positive outcome or the success of The Rise of Non-State Actors a policy. CAUSE 3RD. ELITE THEORY - Inability and failure of states to live up to their - Focuses on the structure or system that role, which is providing essential services and benefits the needs of the elite groups rather maintaining their social contract with the than the public in general which produces people they govern. outputs through a political compromise based - Marginalization, frustration of the state’s only on personal visions. failure, the need to survive and provide solutions to the failure of the state. 4TH. INSTITUTIONALISM - Focuses on how the government institutions EFFECT affect the outcomes which involves the formal - Non-Violent Non-State Actors: and legal aspects in this process. - Non-Government Organizations (NGOs) 5TH. RATIONAL CHOICE THEORY - International Non-Government - Focuses on economics and how everyone Organization (INGOs) acts on their own interests as a rational actor - Civil Society Organizations (CSOs), and maximizes social gain. and religious organizations - Violent Non-State Actors: rebel groups and terrorist groups 1 | Page Libre lang ni rafa please, thank you, goodluck mga darlings

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