Theories -- Caleb's Slides
The theory that argues leaders directly influence public policy.
What is elite theory?
This theory attempts to describe how policymakers make decisions by breaking down the process into stages.
What is the stages model?
This is when policymakers decide what steps can be taken to solve the problem.
What is policy formulation?
This government instrument is often (jokingly) called theft.
What is taxation?
Originated by Paul Sabatier, this framework represents groups with shared beliefs that coordinate policymaking.
What is Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF)?
The theory that argues the government behaves like a living organism?
What is political systems theory?
The lack of this scientific method is a central failing of the Stages Theory.
What is the hypothesis?
What is policy implementation?
Under a laissez-faire economy, the government can rely on this instrument.
What is market mechanism?
In this framework, the convergence of the three streams (problems, political, policy) allows for rapid policy change.
What is policy window framework?
The theory that argues information allows individuals to act in their self-interest.
What is rational choice theory?
This theory attempts to redefine how scientists conceptualize the process of policymaking through a political relationship.
What is typologies?
Reducing a budget would be an example of this policy creation step.
What is policy change?
Agencies and committees would be considered part of this instrument.
What is government management?
This is described as the relationship between Congress, bureaucracy, and special interest groups.
What is the iron triangle?
The theory that argues the development of public policy is a pluralistic process.
What is group theory?
This step of the Stages Model is where the policy that is selected is put into action.
What is implementation?
What is policy evaluation?
An example of this instrument is a quota.
What is regulation?
This idea proposed that the policy process is decentralized, fragmented, and characterized by informal and shifting alliances.
What is the subsystem theory?
The theory that argues there is no such thing as neutrality in the field of public policy.
What is institutional theory?
This political scientist proposed four types of policy, namely distributive, redistributive, regulatory, and constituent in his public policy theory.
Who is Theodore Lowi?
Getting the weight of the law and the support of the people are two viewpoints of this policy creation step.
What is policy legitimation?
Some citizens will call this instrument indoctrination if public trust is low.
What is education, information, and persuasion?
In this framework, the rate of change in public policy is usually incremental.
What is punctuated equilibrium?