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A comparison between the machinery of government policy making in the UK and the US, which concludes that the system operating in the former is preferable to that in the latter.
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that both the US and the UK could loosely be described as Western democracies, there are significant differences in the way that policy-making in the two countries operates: although both
systems have their positive aspects, on balance it would appear that the UK has the most effective policy-making structure.
As McCormick (2003) points out (p66), in the US there is something of a discrepancy between public expectations of
government - that it should have a low level of involvement in public affairs - and the actual degree of government intervention which takes place. Government regulation, state subsidies, the
allocation of welfare benefits and private industry contracts all require some degree of government involvement. In addition, as McCormick also notes, there are several other factors which need to be
taken into account when assessing US policy making. In the
first place (p66) the US is an extremely diverse society, in terms of the ethnic and racial backgrounds of its inhabitants, and there is a considerable socio-economic divide between various
groups which is linked to ethnicity. Age must also be taken into account: the American equivalent of the pensions system is finding it increasingly difficult to cope with an ageing
population and its attendant drain on welfare resources. Secondly (p67) the governmental system can only operate within a complex system of checks and balances: there are state laws and federal
laws, and in general the latter can only be successfully implemented with the active cooperation of state machinery. In addition, neither President nor Congress can act unilaterally but must rely
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