Ch 3/4 Public Policy Flashcards
Politics Tree Analogy
soil & root structure?
Soil & root structure: Values (America couldn’t grow from weak values (like w/o freedom))
Politics Tree Analogy
Trunk?
Trunk: Constitution (don’t expect much change)
Politics Tree Analogy
Large Branches?
Large Branches: Amendments (extension of constitution)
don’t expect much change
Politics Tree Analogy
Smaller Branches & Leaves?
Smaller Branches & Leaves: Federal Laws & regs, local laws, regs, ordinances, ruling, temporary directives, executive orders, etc.
(expect change & they are temporary)
Policymaking process
what are the 3 steps?
(general set of ideas)
1) Demands
2) Political Process
3) Outputs
Policymaking process
Demands, aka?
Agenda Setting
recognize demands of America saying they want ___
Policymaking process
Political Process, aka?
formulation; adoption;
process like elections, inputs, opinions, etc
Policymaking process
Outputs, aka?
implementation
outcome: what answers demands
Policymaking process
after the outcome what happens?
Feedback evaluation
(after gov addresses what we’ve demanded, evaluate if goal was achieved
Policymaking process involves what in the political process?
Easton’s Black Box (mysterious bc don’t know what is going on behind closed doors)
Policy Categorization
what are the 2 different policies? (further than domestic and foreign)
Distributive policy
Re-Distributive policy
Policy Categorization
Distributive policy
(policy benefits huge majority of american ppl, like our defense
everyone wants to participate in & enjoys benefits from)
-society valued & large population of recipients
Policy Categorization
Re-Distributive policy
(majority contribute, but only some benefit (sub-group))
-targeted to limited # of recipients
Agenda Setting
This implies what (2)? Kingdon’s 3 stream typology includes?
- 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)
Kingdon’s Typology: Problem stream
Indicators (stats) (make it seem like Crisis by using these)
Focusing event (focus attention on like 9/11)
Feedback (use existing info)