Monday, November 21, 2022

Week 13: Public Policy and Equal Treatment of the Law

What is Public Policy?
What Is Public Policy?
What is a Market?
What is Market Failure?
Private Goods, Market Failure, and Public Goods.
Public Goods - What are they? What types exist?
The Public Policy Process.


Public Opinion and the Media.
State Political Culture.
Public Opinion.
Public Opinion and the Policy Agenda.
The Issue Attention Cycle.
- Wikipedia: Agenda-setting theory.
From the Monkey Cage: Rich people rule!
- Wikipedia: Political Movements.
- Political Movements.
- Zone of Acquiescence.
- Overton Window.


What is Equal Treatment of the Law?
- Unequal Treatment.
- Equal Treatment / Civil Rights.
- 14th Amendment.
- Equal Protection Clause.
- From the Brennan Center: The History of Corporate Personhood.
- LII: Civil Rights.
- Civil Rights Laws, Authorities, and Regulations.
- Civil Rights Act of 1964.
- Civil Rights: US Supreme Court Decisions.
- Strict Scrutiny.



GOVT 2306
Public Policy in Texas
- affirmative action
- agenda setting
- available school fund
- capture
- Children's Health Insurance Program
- foundation school fund
- means-tested fund
- Medicaid
- Medicare
- permanent school fund
- redistributive policies
- Temporary Assistance to Needy Families
- vouchers


2306: Chapter 11: Criminal Justice
- Rights of the Accused
- Probable Cause
- Search and Seizure
- Indigent Defense
- Victims Rights
- Misdemeanors
- Felonies
- Drug Crimes
- Juvenile Crime
- Pre Trial
- Bail
- Prosecutor
- Arraignment
- Grand Jury
- Plea Bargain
- Trial
- Voir Dire
- No Contest
- Punishment
- Physical Labor
- Probation
- Community Supervision
- Deferred Adjudication
- Incarceration
- TDCJ
- Overcrowding
- Crime Rate
- Drug Court Reform
- Privatization
- Death Penalty
- Life After Prison
- Collateral Consequences
- Restricted Licensing, Employment, and Access to Programs
- Voting Rights
- Criminal Disenfranchisement
- Parole
- Reforms
- Alternatives to Incarceration
- Bail Reforms
- Addressing Prison Suicides
- Aging Prison Population
- Death Penalty Reform


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Terminology: 

Public Policy
Public Goods
Externalities
Monopolies
Information
Federalism
National
- Commerce
- - Fiscal Policy
- - Monetary Policy
- Defense
Deficiencies of the Article of Confederation
Statutory Code
- delegated powers
- implied powers
States
- police powers
Texas
- Articles in the Constitution
Statutory Code
Fiscal Size Up
- areas
Local Government
Municipal Code of Ordinances