List of policy terms
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We need a base of terms that are objectively defined to build visions on. Here they are. Don't worry too much about duplication, eventually it'll get settled out. Improve the list using the detailed method outlined on the talk page. If it's not adequate to resolve all disputes, use the FrameTank method to get to consensus.
What's here has been through the FrameTank already, and supports rational policy conversations without biasing them. There is nothing Karl Rove will hate more than improving this page. Names of specific mandates and agencies belong on this list as they implement policies.
This list of policy terms includes only those with verifiable or objective definitions. Yes, even laws of God, those are defined in each religion and quite difficult for anyone to make up or fake. Argue with this stuff rationally via position:namespace.
This list respects name precedents far better than any that you could just make up: You should find every term that is not specifically about policymaking as a process, in the Wikipedia with exactly the name here. That's the best source of name precedents, with friendly large public political wikis like SourceWatch.org and openpolitics.ca as the next best sources for concepts that would only be defined in a political context.
- 211
- 311
- 4P
- 911
- accounting reform
- air quality
- altermondialiste or anti-globalization movement
- alternative transferable vote aka instant runoff voting
- answer recommendation - also on list of process terms and list of process proposals; it is here to reflect use in e-government and e-democracy
- anticipatory democracy
- ape personhood
- approval voting - also on list of process terms
- arts
- auto share
- assisted living
- assisted suicide and right to die
- audit protocol - also on list of process terms
- backcast to fixed time horizon - also on list of process terms - a key method in long term planning
- ballot access
- beyond a reasonable doubt
- biosecurity as contrasted to biodefense
- biodiversity
- bioregion and ecoregion - especially watershed
- bioregional democracy
- bioregional multi-member district
- bioregional steward
- BSE
- candidate survey - should Elections Canada make these easier for small groups to conduct?
- capital asset - also on list of process terms
- car co-op and start car co-op if there's none nearby
- citizen
- citizen assembly e.g. as being instituted in Ontario to agree on a proposal for an electoral reform referendum
- citizen initiative including recall election and referendum and car co-op project
- city signal infrastructure
- City Signal Infrastructure Loan
- civic best practices
- Civic Efficiency Collaborative
- climate change
- co-housing
- the commons and tragedy of the commons
- collude - also on list of process terms
- command and control - also on list of process terms
- command hierarchy - also on list of process terms
- commodity market
- community emergency response team
- comprehensive outcome - also on list of process terms
- computer supported cooperative work - also on list of process terms
- conflict of interest - also on list of process terms
- conspiracy - as defined in US Code espeically RICO statutes
- consumable - as defined in Ecological Intelligent Design
- continuous improvement - also on list of process terms
- continuous municipal performance audit, e.g. Baltimore CitiStat method
- copyright - also on list of process terms
- creative class - also Bohemian Index and Gay Index
- credential - also on list of process terms
- critical infrastructure
- culture of life
- cultural right
- deliberative democracy - also on list of process terms
- delphi method - also on list of process terms
- deforestation
- developed nation
- disability rights
- disabled
- district borders and gerry-mandering
- do-least-harm - also on list of process terms
- e-democracy
- e-government
- e-waste - also on list of process terms
- eco-syndicalism
- eco-village
- ecological and social indicator and triple bottom line - also on list of process terms
- Ecological Intelligent Design
- economic choice contrasted with ethical choice and political choice - also on list of process terms
- economic growth and uneconomic growth esp. re: GDP
- economic inequity and (more slanted) economic injustice
- the 867 ecoregions and 8 ecozones of the Earth
- ecosystem health
- ecosystem valuation and price of Earth implied in economics
- Efficient Civics Guild
- Electoral District
- electoral reform
- eligibility to vote
- emergency preparedness and emergency response
- energy economics as the foundation of so-called green economics
- environmental health
- environmental security
- ethic
- evidence/source/authority - also on list of process terms
- extinction
- federal political party
- first responder
- financial capital - a style of capital
- financial yield vs. ecological yield
- fiscal policy
- five levels of intranet - also on list of process terms
- foreign policy
- forensic audit - also on list of process terms
- forestry
- free software
- full cost accounting - also on list of process terms
- full employment
- Generally Accepted Accounting Principles - also on list of process terms
- global debt relief
- Government of Canada
- green Olympics - every Olympic Games is now called this - is it a fair call?
- green procurement - form of moral purchasing and civic efficiency
- green tax shift
- grey
- grey governance
- guaranteed income supplement
- Healthy Telecom
- heritage
- home care
- human capital - an aggregate, not a basic capital asset!
- human development
- human rights
- individual capital - an economy synonym for talent/initiative/creativity
- industrial ecology
- Instant Runoff Vote - one-winner Single Transferable Vote
- instructional capital in patents and as central to the intellectual capital debate
- intangibles - those capital assets that are not physical nor legal tender
- laws of God
- federal political party leadership, i.e. Democratic National Committee and Republican National Committee and other parties
- learning organization - also on list of process terms
- legislator - also on list of process terms - this is the person who actually advances the policy in the House of Representatives, the Senate, or wrote it as a lobbyist
- lobby - also on list of process terms
- management accounting
- management accounting for cities
- market value housing
- measuring well-being - also on list of process terms
- mediawiki-based services - also on list of process terms
- meeting and wiki meeting - also on list of process terms
- money supply and inflation rate - as related to natural capital and individual capital - both of which are alive - and their pricing in price of Earth and price of life
- monetary reform, monetary reform and its relation to views of Economics and Economic Philosophy
- monopolies on information, e.g. patent, and why intellectual property isn't
- monorail
- moral purchasing - see also green procurement
- moral values - every body has 'em
- municipal performance audit - see also more specific continuous municipal performance audit and more general government performance audit
- municipality
- natural capital - UN work - a style of capital asset
- no jobs on a dead planet - an idiom
- nation
- Natural Capitalism
- Natural Step
- nature's services including the ecological yield of commodities
- negative income tax
- open content - also on list of process terms
- CC-by - an open content license
- CC-by-nc-sa - a Share Alike open content license
- Open Code Collaborative
- open party, i.e. one using Living Agenda, Living Platform or like methods
- open space conference - also on list of process terms
- organic farm
- organic food versus local food
- organic ranch
- participatory democracy - also on list of process terms and one of the Six Principles
- party platform comparison
- patent
- performance audit - also on list of process terms
- persona non grata - who should not be allowed in the USA also on list of process terms
- podcast - notably PBS podcast,
- political Islam
- political Catholicism
- political Protestantism
- political virtues - also on list of process terms
- political Zionism
- politics as usual - also on list of process terms
- precautionary principle
- polluter pays
- poverty line
- price of life and IPCC valuation of it in developed vs. developing; also on list of process terms
- privacy
- product market within service economy
- proportional representation and specific proposals for Mixed Proportional Representation
- prototype
- province
- public accounts reform - forensic audits
- public health as basis of public safety
- quality management - also on list of process terms
- reflexive intranet - also on list of process terms
- refugee
- rent to own housing
- rental housing geared to income
- research - also on list of process terms - Government does it, Party does it, NGOs do it, what should we all be doing together?
- resign - also on list of process terms - big issue in government accountability
- reverse onus
- right of return
- rights
- risk management - also on list of process terms
- ruleset - also on list of process terms - how many of these are there in government anyway?
- runoff voting - notice this is not Instant Runoff Voting; also on list of process terms
- rural development
- science and technology
- Share Alike - also on list of process terms
- self-organize - also on list of process terms - something nature does, and communities do, so why can't government do it?
- service economy - also on list of process terms
- service product - as defined in Ecological Intelligent Design
- seven generations - typical time horizon for decisions - also on list of process terms
- simultaneous policy - also on list of process terms - see also simultaneous policy wiki
- Single Transferable Vote - to be implemented in BC in 2005?
- social capital - a term extant in Liberal policy
- social contract
- social economy - a term extant in Liberal policy and throne speeches
- social justice - one of the Six Principles and Ten Key Values
- social network - a very well defined term in sociology and commerce
- social software - like this wiki - also on list of process terms
- soil
- soil depletion
- source - also on list of process terms - in policy mostly relevant to whistleblower legislation and journalist protections
- species loss
- sports and recreation
- standard of evidence - also on list of process terms - to what standard are different kinds of decisions to be held, in government?
- state services - is there a catalog of all services provided by the state in Canada?
- steady state - also on list of process terms
- supportive housing
- sustainability
- sustainable development
- sustainable trades
- throughput accounting
- trademark and service mark - also on list of process terms
- transparent municipalities - also on list of process terms
- twelve levers - also on list of process terms and organizing ruleset of list of process papers - _A CORE CONCEPT_
- universal demogrant
- unsaleable - as defined in Ecological Intelligent Design
- urban autonomy - see also Province of Toronto
- urban economics
- values - see moral values and economic values and capital asset valuation
- value reporting - also on list of process terms
- value creation - also on list of process terms
- voting machine
- voting system - also on list of process terms
- water quality
- water supply
- watershed
- weight of evidence - also on list of process terms
- well-being and quality of life - also on list of process terms
- whistleblower
- wiki - also on list of process terms
- wiki best practices
- zero e-waste hardware - the platform for green systems
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