MSF
ACF
Punctuated Equilibrium
NPF
Choose the Framework
100

The three streams in MSF are these. 

What are problem stream, policy stream, and political stream? 

100

ACF explains how these groups impact the policy process.

What are advocacy coalitions?

100

In PET, this describes the informal networks of actors who influence a specific policy issue over time.

What is a policy subsystem?

100

NPF argues that there are four parts to a narrative, the setting, the characters, the plot and this.

What is the "moral"?

100

This framework explains why some issues rise on the agenda while others do not. 

What is MSF?

200

In MSF, solutions attach to these. 

What are problems?

200

ACF argues that people hold these types of beliefs that are not policy-specific and are unlikely to change. 

What are deep core beliefs?

200

The idea that policymakers can only deal with one issue at a time is called this. 

What is serial processing?

200

NPF posits that policy problems are created through this.

What is the stories that policy actors tell?

200

This framework explains why policies are stable for a long time and then go through periods of extreme change. 

What is PET?

300

In MSF, before something is a problem, it is one of these.

What is a condition?

300

These types of beliefs outline specific instrumental means to achieve desired outcomes. 

What are secondary beliefs?

300

This type of feedback reinforces policy stability by dampening pressures for change. 

What is negative feedback?

300

In NPF, characters can be villians, victims, or this.

What are heroes?

300

This framework explains how coalitions influence the policy process. 

What is ACF?

400

These are three ways that conditions become problems in MSF. 

What are focusing events, changes in indicators, and feedback?

400

Actors who mediate between coalitions and make decisions are called this. 

What are policy brokers?

400

PET argues that policies change dramatically when this happens.

What is when external shocks or public opinion overcome friction? 

Also accept - lurching, policy bubble bursts, policy monopoly falls apart, policy punctuations

400

To work, a narrative must do this. 

Any answer will work: 

What is be persuasive?

What is be compelling?

What is fit in with existing beliefs?

What is come from a trusted source?

400

This framework provides empirical techniques for studying the narrative strategies of actors. 

What is NPF?

500

MSF explains this. 

What is, "Why do some issues rise on the agenda while others do not?" Also accept - "What is agenda setting?"

500
ACF argues that policies change due to external shocks, internal shocks, policy learning and this. 

What is a negotiated agreement?

500

In PET, lurching occurs when issues rise to this level. 

What is the macro level?

500

In NPF, recognition of a policy problem with an emphasis on causality is called this. 

What is a plot?

500

This framework examines the intersection between how society defines different groups and policy design. 

What is Social Construction of Target Populations?

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