Public Policy
definition
Value-laden
Value neutral
Public
Power and politics
Policy
A Motley Crew: Incisional and Noninstitutional Actors
A federal system
State government:
Local government
3 types of law
Criminal law
Public law:
Federal crimes
Three branches of Government
Committees
Congress
President:
Bully pulpi
The implementers
bureaucrats/bureaucracy:
Policy implementation
Categories of public policy
Distributive
Regulation
Redistributive
The process
Stages heuristic approach
Stage 1 : problem identification and definition:
Stage 2: Agenda Setting-
Stage 3: policy formulation
Stage 4: policy legitimation
Stage 5: policy implementation-
Stage 6: Policy Evaluation
SHAPING policy
media
Broadcast
Internet
Interest groups
Business
Ideology
Public interest
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