Project description
Answer any three of the following nine questions as thoroughly as possible. Answers should be coherent, well organized, and complete. Your answer to each question should range from 300 to 600 words. Your answers should reflect your understanding of materials from the readings, lectures, and discussions. Generally speaking, answers that are well written and easy to understand will receive higher grades than answers which must be read several times to determine their meaning. Answers that clearly link the general discussion to your specific policy arena will receive higher grades than answers that could apply to any policy. 1.What is public policy? What factors affect its development? How do we know when a public policy is a success or a failure?
2.What are the fundamental values of American society? Which of those values appear to be dominant in the public policy arena defined by your policy topic? Are these values complementary, in conflict, or both?
3.Who are the formal (official) actors in the policymaking process and what roles do they place in the overall policy process? Who are the critical actors in the policy arena of your topic and why?
4.Who are the informal (unofficial) actors in the policymaking process and what roles do they place in the overall policy process? Who are the critical actors in the policy arena of your topic and why?
1.What is public policy? What factors affect its development? How do we know when a public policy is a success or a failure?
2.What are the fundamental values of American society? Which of those values appear to be dominant in the public policy arena defined by your policy topic? Are these values complementary, in conflict, or both?
3.Who are the formal (official) actors in the policymaking process and what roles do they place in the overall policy process? Who are the critical actors in the policy arena of your topic and why?
4.Who are the informal (unofficial) actors in the policymaking process and what roles do they place in the overall policy process? Who are the critical actors in the policy arena of your topic and why?
1.What is public policy? What factors affect its development? How do we know when a public policy is a success or a failure?
2.What are the fundamental values of American society? Which of those values appear to be dominant in the public policy arena defined by your policy topic? Are these values complementary, in conflict, or both?
3.Who are the formal (official) actors in the policymaking process and what roles do they place in the overall policy process? Who are the critical actors in the policy arena of your topic and why?
4.Who are the informal (unofficial) actors in the policymaking process and what roles do they place in the overall policy process? Who are the critical actors in the policy arena of your topic and why?
5.How central to the policy process is problem identification? Why or why not? Does your policy arena have an accepted problem definition or do stakeholders have competing definitions? What is the accepted definition or what are the competing definitions?
6.Outline Kingdons streams model of agenda setting and policy formulation. Apply the model to the policy arena for your policy.
7.What are policy entrepreneurs and why are they so important to the agenda setting and policy formulation processes? Who are the key policy entrepreneurs in your policy arena?
8.Outline the model of vigilant problem solving. What decision constraints (cognitive, affiliative, or egocentric) appear to be dominant in your policy arena?
9.In your policy arena, is the implementation largely top-down or bottom-up? What impact has that had on the overall effectiveness of the implementation effort?
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Added on 09.06.2016 01:01
The topic that I have been working on is immigration and overpopulation. So I will fill in the blanks when it comes to talking about how the answers to the essays relate to my topic
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Added on 09.06.2016 01:02
*On how the answers to the questions relate to my topic*