Term
| What are the 5 stages of the Stages Model? |
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Definition
| Evaluation, Agenda Setting, Formulation & Analysis, Legitimation, Implementation |
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Term
| What are the 3 components of Agenda Setting? |
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Definition
1) Labeling and problem identification
2) Amenable to gov't action
3) Capture the attention |
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Term
| In Agenda Setting, what are ways to "capture the attention" of policymakers? |
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Definition
a) state- centric - government agency initiates without external pressure
b) pluralist - society pressures government to act
c) elitist - someone with a loud enough voice raises the issue (shadow gov't, celebrity, rich person) |
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Term
| What are tools of Policy Formulation? |
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Definition
a) make a law,
b) provide services (education),
c) moral suasion (appeal to the values of society),
d) reform internal practices,
e) money (fund programs, grants, loans, or collect taxes) |
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Term
| What are types of change as a result of Policy Formulation? |
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Definition
a) deliberately remain unchanged
b) terminate existing policy
c) modify existing policy (by total/partial replacement or consolidate/disaggregate) |
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| In Policy Legitimation, who is authorized to create policy and how? |
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Definition
1) Legislative Branch - through legislature, authorizing or prohibiting something
2) Executive Branch - Executive Orders or delegated power (i.e. FDA, FCC)
3) Judicial Branch - Supreme Court re-words law
4) Democratic process - Initiative (group of people propose an issue to vote on) or Referendum (legislature proposes an issue to vote on) |
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Term
| What are some factors that affect Policy Implementation? |
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Definition
-information flows (too vague)
-decision rights (if decision maker is too far down the chain, consistency is hard to manage)
-timing (policy makers have short life spans)
-adaptability (people don't like change) |
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Term
| What is the purpose of Policy Evaluation? |
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Definition
a) to study the efficacy of existing policy
b) to study the state of society |
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Term
| What is the main difference between policy analysis and Policy Evaluation? |
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Definition
| Evaluation looks at society as a whole; analysis looks at one particular policy |
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