Agenda Setting
Infrequent events that direct attention to a specific problem.
What are Focusing Events?
These are enacted by agencies to implement statutory policies
What are regulatory policies?
The notion that some problems require a bold action is a critique of this.
What is Incrementalism?
What is the role of public administration for converting legislation into action?
What is Implementation?
The process through which both the public and elites increase and decrease attention given to specific problems and their solutions.
What is Agenda Setting?
Features of policy design that initiate or cause agents to behave in ways that they would not otherwise is an example of this.
What are Policy Tools?
The optimal problems, decision makers, and political will come together in a wonder of opportunity to make decisions in this framework.
What is the Garbage Can Model?
What is the Top Down Approach?
Challenging the assumption that all groups are equal and can equally participate in the process is a challenge to this.
What is Pluralism?
Encouraging the public through campaigns to wash hands, the production of food safety labels, and the provision of information on toxic chemical releases are examples of this.
Hortatory Tools (Consider Education and Consultation)
This is an impartial description of how decisions are made.
What is the Positive Model?
The notion that street-level bureaucrats are less influential than they are thought to be is a critique of this.
What is the Bottom-up Approach?
Items that are explicitly up for active and serious consideration by a governmental institution.
What is the Institutional Agenda?
The nature of the activity (coercive v. non-coercive), the structure of the delivery system, the degree of centralization, and the degree of automaticity are the dimensions of this framework.
What are Salamon and Lund's Dimensions of Policy Tools?
What is Satisficing?
Complexity and the identification of causality are challenges to this.
What is Policy Evaluation?
It is not profitable for media organizations to motivate hyper-partisanship. This statement is an example of this.
What is a lie?
Does the policy tool address the right cause of the problem? <- The answer to this question tells you whether you have a good version of this.
What is a causal model?
The office of management and budget is under this branch of government.
What is the Executive Branch?
What the government directly does to address specific problems.
What are Outputs?