Legislative process
This is a process invoked in the Senate to delay a vote by keeping a debate from ending. It can be stopped with 60 votes.
What is a filibuster?
This is a diagram that shows a sequence linking inputs, activities, outputs, and outcomes
What is a logic model?
This process involves translating written policies into action, such as by performing enforcement actions and hiring staff?
What is implementation?
This is a directive issued by the president that holds the force of law
What is an executive order?
This stage of the policy process involves giving policies legal force (e.g., passing a law, publishing a rule?)
What is policy legitimation?
This section of a logic model represents the initial resources dedicated to a progam/policy
What are inputs?
This type of implementation focuses on behavior one wants to change at the street level and work up from there
What is bottom-up implementation?
This highest level of judicial authority decides whether current laws, rules, and
previous, lower-level court decisions are constitutional.
What is the Supreme Court?
This individual can perform a filibuster
What is a senator?
This part of the policy cycle includes drafting a bill into a law
What is policy formulation?
This type of implementation goes from policy makers to implementers
What is top-down implementation?
This form of policy legitimation is subject to a formal comment period.
What is the rulemaking process?
This committee in the House establishes the guidelines for debate and whether amendments will be allowed.
What is the Rules committee?
This theory of decision-making views formulating policy as a rational, decision-based process.
What is the rational comprehensive model?
This type of policy relies on a number of agencies across one level of government to successfully execute the program
What is horizontal coordination?
This type of policy relies on a number of agencies across one level of government to successfully execute the program
What is horizontal coordination?
This is a process in the House in which normal rules are waived. This process usually applies to bills that are noncontroversial.
What is suspension of the rules?
This theory of decision-making views policy formulation as a series of gradual changes made to existing policy.
What is incrementalism?
This type of lever describes guidelines put in place to guide policy from design to implementation
What is an operating system lever?
This office reviews drafts of regulations submitted by government agencies before they are published? It lies within the Office of Management and Budget.
What is the Office of Information and
Regulatory Affairs?