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⫸ Stages Heuristic Model. Answer: 1. Problem identification 2. Agenda Setting 3. Formulation 4. Legitimation 5. Implementation 6. Evaluation ⫸ 2022 National Defense Strategy Key Points. Answer: Prevent PRC's dominance in key regions while protecting the US homeland; collaboration w NATO against Russian aggression; integrative deterrence ⫸ Pew Report Key Points. Answer: Negative slide in economic ratings - inflation as one of the top problems facing the nation; significant difference between what Dems and Reps believe are the largest problems; wide difference in views of the economy by age, race, and ethnicity; personal financial ratings have fluctuated less dramatically than national ratings ⫸ Issue recognition. Answer: When the problem is first noticed and then perceived to have the potential for gov action - identify/describe the problem - causes? concerns? ⫸ Establishing causality. Answer: Establish link between the problem and its cause
⫸ Consensus - routinise (nodality). Answer: Managing the demands making it onto the government agenda ⫸ Consensus - regularise (organization). Answer: Permitting issues back on the governmental agenda at set intervals ⫸ Consensus - generate (treasure). Answer: Fostering policy demands to help proactively shape governmental agendas ⫸ Imposition - impose (authority). Answer: unilaterally install government issue priority onto the agenda in absence of consultation ⫸ Agendas. Answer: Plans of action or a list of topics being considered by the public and policy makers - Congress members have agendas that outline a list of issues that are a priority for them ⫸ Agenda levels. Answer: Agenda universe - > systemic agenda - > institutional agenda - > decision agenda ⫸ Pluralism. Answer: Follows the belief that everyone has equal access to influence policy making ⫸ Elite theory. Answer: Only a few prominent elites have the power to influence policymaking
⫸ Rational Comprehensive Model. Answer: 1. Identify the problem
⫸ Action levers. Answer: Can be used during the policy design phase to encourage successful implementation ⫸ Design levers. Answer: Mechanisms used during the formulation process (proposal imprecision, organizational simplification) ⫸ Operating system levers. Answer: Guidelines put in place to guide the policy from design to implementation (start-up decisions, public relations decisions, incentive decisions, contingency decisions) ⫸ Organizational levers. Answer: Pertain to how an agency responsible for policy implementation is established or restructured ⫸ Political levers. Answer: Actions taken by policy makers and the policy supporters to quell dissension among opponents ⫸ Policy analysis. Answer: Client-oriented advice relevant to public decisions and informed by social values - implementation/analysis go together and are interchangeable ⫸ Policy analysis cycle. Answer: - > identify and define the problem -
identify alternatives - > establish evaluation criteria - > evaluate alternatives - > select the best alternative - > monitor outcomes - > ⫸ Distributive Policies. Answer: Government actors provide beneficial goods and services to a majority of the population at the expense of taxpayers