Ch 3/4 Public Policy Flashcards

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Politics Tree Analogy

soil & root structure?

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Soil & root structure: Values (America couldn’t grow from weak values (like w/o freedom))

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Politics Tree Analogy

Trunk?

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Trunk: Constitution (don’t expect much change)

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Politics Tree Analogy

Large Branches?

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Large Branches: Amendments (extension of constitution)

don’t expect much change

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Politics Tree Analogy

Smaller Branches & Leaves?

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Smaller Branches & Leaves: Federal Laws & regs, local laws, regs, ordinances, ruling, temporary directives, executive orders, etc.
(expect change & they are temporary)

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Policymaking process

what are the 3 steps?

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(general set of ideas)

1) Demands
2) Political Process
3) Outputs

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Policymaking process

Demands, aka?

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Agenda Setting

recognize demands of America saying they want ___

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Policymaking process

Political Process, aka?

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formulation; adoption;

process like elections, inputs, opinions, etc

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Policymaking process

Outputs, aka?

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implementation

outcome: what answers demands

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Policymaking process

after the outcome what happens?

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Feedback evaluation

(after gov addresses what we’ve demanded, evaluate if goal was achieved

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Policymaking process involves what in the political process?

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Easton’s Black Box (mysterious bc don’t know what is going on behind closed doors)

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Policy Categorization

what are the 2 different policies? (further than domestic and foreign)

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Distributive policy

Re-Distributive policy

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Policy Categorization

Distributive policy

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(policy benefits huge majority of american ppl, like our defense
everyone wants to participate in & enjoys benefits from)
-society valued & large population of recipients

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Policy Categorization

Re-Distributive policy

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(majority contribute, but only some benefit (sub-group))

-targeted to limited # of recipients

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Agenda Setting

This implies what (2)? Kingdon’s 3 stream typology includes?

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  • Deciding what’s going to be acted upon (prioritizing, top of list)
  • Function of who’s got the momentum (like newly elected pres.,on & off competition)
  • Kingdon’s 3 stream typology: problem, political, solution (way to dominate agenda)
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Kingdon’s Typology: Problem stream

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Indicators (stats) (make it seem like Crisis by using these)
Focusing event (focus attention on like 9/11)
Feedback (use existing info)

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Kingdon’s Typology: Political stream

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(urgency of problem) - Idea’s time has come

changes in personnel ie) electoral changes

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Kingdon’s Typology: Solution stream

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right program= favorable decision

problem ->urgency-> know solution

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Policy Formation What should be done is often a function of who? Best case scenario?

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function of who you ask (your solution may not be the only solution)
best case scenario: be in on both the policy formation and policy adoption
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Policy Adoption

def? includes (2)? ex? efficacy & detail tension? when is there higher demand?

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selection of program
includes legitimization & budgeting
-ex) Healthcare left up to policy advisors & came up w/ Obamacare, lots of ppl contributing to what program to choose)
(the tension btwn efficacy & details eg: “feed the ppl of CLE) - more info given, higher demand (like study guide= higher expectation)

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Policy Implementation

aka? ex? in some cases what is the role of the implementers?

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also called “outputs”; is actually doing the program
-like Obamacare-> where ppl are actually signing up and seeing doctors
in some cases, the implementers play a large role in the agenda-setting, formulation, & adoption stages

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Policy Feedback

outputs vs outcomes? What does Kingdon believe about feedback? What can feedback be helpful for?

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(analysis of it)
“Outputs” are the program (what they do, implement the program)
“Outcomes” are the results (whether or not program achieved goal)
(Kingdon argues that feedback is also an “indicator”,use results)
Programs can be both strengthened & terminated by feedback

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Food-stamp policy triangle

where is congress always located & where is the executive always located? ultimate beneficiary?

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congress in bottom right
executive on top of triangle
ultimate beneficiary in bottom left

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Food-stamp policy triangle

What does the policy triangle present?

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Currency of Exchange: Mutual Self-Interest

-all 3 players dependent on each other for something important (one can’t exist w/o each other)