UK Public Policy

Daniela Ganelin

Cultural Values

• Fair play• Authority• Tradition• Privacy• Individualism

Class Structure

• Elite• Established middle class• Technical middle class• New affluent workers• Traditional working class• Emergent service workers• Precariat, or precarious proletariat• Calculator

General Condition

• PPP: $36,880 (US: $50,610)• HDI: 26th (tie with Luxembourg)• Data explorer

Public Goods

• National Health Service• Welfare state• Benefits list• Media

Government and Business

• Mixed-market economy• Recession, debt, and unemployment

Environment

• Regulations for business• Pollution• EU involvement

Economic Relationship with EU

• Good or bad for UK? For EU?• Trade• European economy• Euroscepticism

US Relationship

• Military partnership• Balance with EU

Other Foreign Policy

• Syria?• Foreign aid• Commonwealth• Japan

Population and Migration

• Overcrowding• Illegal immigration

Religious and Ethnic Conflict

• Muslims– Sharia

• 2011 riots• Catholics

Civil Liberties

• Religion• Free speech– Internet

• Police• “Nanny State”?

Education

• State vs. public/independent schools– Uniforms

• Mostly subsidized higher education

Other Social Issues

• Trend toward liberal attitudes and policies

• Cleavages based on class/education, gender, and religion

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