Policy & Process
Money, suasion, and laws are examples of this important concept.
What is a policy instrument?
The ACF categorizes beliefs into these three levels.
What are deep core, policy core, and secondary beliefs?
This theory contends that policy design is based on society's perceptions of different groups of people.
What is social construction of target populations?
Stone offers this research-backed alternative to the market model of society.
What is the Polis Model?
This scholar proposed the policy typology, consisting of regulatory, distributive, redistributive, and constituent policy types.
Who is Theodore Lowi?
The outcome of a presidential election fits into these two components of the MSF.
What are the politics stream and window of opportunity?
Groups of people who we recognize as having significant political power but are not well liked by the public fall into this category.
What is the contender category?
Stone declares that this concept represents the heart of policy controversies.
What is distribution?
This is widely considered to be the first step in the policymaking process, though we know policymaking does not happen linearly.
What is agenda setting?
Or: what is problem identification?
In PET, policy monopolies seek to create a positive version of this term, while outsiders hope to paint it more negatively.
What is a policy image?
This framework is used to study the story-like elements often found in policy design.
What is the Narrative Policy Framework?
The Market Model incorrectly assumes there is a tradeoff between efficiency and this other democratic policy goal.
What is equality?
This policy level represents the effects that policy choices and outputs have on citizens.
What is (policy) impacts?
EE Schatschneider is famous for developing which concept important to policy studies?
What is Scope of Conflict?
Among other elements, a policy's design always includes these elements.
What is a target population, a policy type, and policy tools?
These three methods are commonly used to deliver the goods/items in a policy.
What are competitions, lotteries, and elections.