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This 4-page paper attempts to align Social Security and its payment with certain policy making models.
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a little research and ingenuity, its possible to find concepts in policy making models that apply to Social Security and its formation.
Before fully answering this question as to how policy making models pertain to Social Security policy, it might first be helpful to analyze the types of policy making models available.
The ones introduced by the student include the rational actor model (that policies are made from the rational choices of policy makers - and that government think like analysts and
set up goals for which rational strategies are devised). Another is incrementalism, namely that policy-makers make their decisions, not so much based on rational choices, but based on limited amounts
of time (not to mention limited amounts of information). Incrementalism is considered a "product of serial marginal changes made over time." Basically, incrementalism is just a take-off on already existing
policies - meaning policymakers want only to slightly change established programs. The organizational processes model approach means that outcomes are influenced by
organizational settings and context, while political economy looks at problems and policies as class-based. If this is applied to aging policies (such as Social Security) the central questions asked include
what are the problems of aging, whose problem it is and whose interests are served by solutions that are developed. Given the
models available, its clear that Social Security policies through the years have been a combination of both incremantalism and class models.
Social Security was an outgrowth of the New Deal, which was an outgrowth of the Great Depression of the 1930s. The main premise behind Social Security, at the time, was
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