Week One
This includes such activities as lobbying, stakeholder relationship building, coalition building, and data analysis.
What is public affairs?
This makes collective decision-making about policy a challenge.
What are values?
Divided institutions producing public policy.
What is fragmentation?
This model presents the policy process as consisting of small stages.
What is the Stages Model?
The multiple stream model of agenda-setting combines these stages of the Stages Model.
What is agenda-setting and policy formulation?
This includes activities related to coordinating, organizing, reporting, and budgeting of public resources.
What is public administration?
Social security payments/subsidies for farmers/social welfare programs/research grants to universities are all examples of this reason for government involvement.
What is providing for the long-term individual and collective well-being of society?
These groups have gatekeeping power and get to decide what bills get considered.
What are Congressional Committees?
The stages in the Stages Model where a policy analyst would be most likely to work.
What is policy formulation and policy evaluation?
What is the problem stream?
Establishing a problem in need of a solution.
What is issue framing?
What is politics?
These are individuals that have the power to prevent or modify policy.
What are veto players?
Subjects that gain attention and become objects of policy action.
What is the agenda?
People who slowly develop ideas/proposals while looking for problems that their solution can address work in this stream.
What is the policy stream?
What are targets of change.
The reason why government may intervene after a hurricane.
What is for moral/ethical reasons?
The concept that policy change happens very slowly in the United States.
What is incrementalism?
In the politics of problem definition these are susceptible to framing and manipulation.
What are anecdotes?
What is a crisis or focusing event?
This strategy in issue framing is used with smaller audiences that are more homogenous/less diverse.
What is a single angle approach?
Monopolies, externalities, and information failures are examples.
What is market failure?
A special relationship between an interest group, Congressional Committee, and a bureaucratic agency.
What is an Iron Triangle?
When legislation is revisited and changes are made.
What is reauthorization?
When all three streams of the multiple streams model of agenda setting align.
What is the window of opportunity?