Vocabulary
A set of laws, priorities, and actions of a government that guide society and are influenced by public opinion.
What is public policy?
Standards of behavior that are determined by a society or a specific group, not individual's feelings or instincts.
What are ethics?
This branch of government is most commonly understood as the ones who affect public policy by creating laws.
What is the legislative branch?
An example would be someone accidentally sharing a false story on social media without checking the original source.
What is misinformation?
A labor policy that has rules at the federal, state, and local level, which determines how much workers must be paid.
What is minimum wage?
Individuals, groups, or organizations with an interest in or ability to influence government decisions.
What are stakeholders?
A type of interaction where people or groups can have reasonable discussions to come to a consensus and make democratic decisions.
What is civil discourse?
This branch of government is responsible for enforcing public policy through actions and public facing.
What is the executive branch?
A situation where a person or group shares false information on purpose to confuse or mislead people.
What is disinformation?
A highly debated and controversial policy that has been left up to states to decide, relating to the rights of pregnant people.
What is abortion access?
Supporting a cause or idea, aiming to raise awareness and/or promote change.
What is advocacy?
A tactic used by activists to impact profits and businesses, either negatively or positively.
What is economic pressure?
This branch of government can change public policy through court decisions.
What is the judicial branch?
What is disinformation?
An example would be a person traveling to a state where recreational marijuana use is legal in order to enjoy the benefits of smoking without being criminally liable in their own home state.
What is rights tourism?
A law or standard that differs depending on the state or city (meaning their is no uniform federal policy).
What is a patchwork policy?
People hired as representatives of specific groups to make persuasive arguments to politicians.
What are lobbyists?
These organizations have no official political power of their own, but hire professionals to influence the legislature through persuasion and sometimes even help draft laws.
What are special interest groups?
Something that can undermine reasonable conversation, but can be corrected if people are willing to be open-minded to fact-checking.
What is misinformation?
This federal government body has the power to change public policies for ALL states based on a decision without having to write or pass a law.
What is the Supreme Court?
The administrative system of non-elected officials who work with clear rules to manage public policies.
What is bureaucracy?
Challenging unfair laws by deliberately breaking the law and accepting the consequences.
What is civil disobedience?
This group has the most influence over how you live your life because, unlike federal laws such as the Constitution, the rules and standards they develop are the ones you have to work with every day.
What are local policymakers?
The sharing of true information with no context or in the wrong context so that it manipulates the truth negatively.
What is malinformation?
The collection of all laws, procedures, standards, and expectations of behavior that anyone residing in ANY state should be aware of, even for states they don't current live in.
What is public policy?