Social studies · Grades 9–12
Public decisions, surveys and representation · revision notes
Public decisions involve affected people with different needs. Fair procedures identify whose views are represented and who is missing.
Key ideas and conditions
Participation
Public decisions involve affected people with different needs. Fair procedures identify whose views are represented and who is missing.
Surveys
A sample is not automatically representative. Recruitment, response rates, wording and access can influence results.
Tradeoffs
Compare benefits, costs and distributional effects rather than treating one aggregate preference as the only consideration.
Country context
Institutions and legal processes differ by jurisdiction. This lesson uses generic fictional community decisions, not a claim about every government.
Explain without looking
- Which statement is appropriately scoped?
- Describe a transparent way to compare two public proposals.
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