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Typology of Policy

According to Ripley and Franklin, policy is categorized into four typologies: protective regulatory, competitive regulatory, distributive, and redistributive. In class, we had to categorize seven important laws, programs, and acts in the proper place. The one that stuck out to me the most was the Clean Air Act of 1963. This act is “A US federal law designed to control air pollution on a national level. It requires the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to develop and enforce regulations to protect the public from airborne contaminants known to be hazardous to human health” (Feeney), making it a protective regulatory policy. Protective regulatory policy is defined in An Introduction to the Policy Process as, “A type of policy that seeks to protect the public and consumers from market problems, such as deceptive advertising, faulty products or negative externalizes”(Birkland, p.253). This relates to population growth because the reason we have these issues that need to be regulated is due to effects of human polluting the earth.