HSA 3150 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Rulemaking
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Both frameworks and theories are useful devices, but it must be admitted at the outset that there is no universally agreed-upon framework or theory about how the public policymaking process works. The best known of the policymaking frameworks is the stage heuristic: stage heuristic: views policymaking as occurring in four stages: agenda setting, formulation, implementation, and evaluation. Policy triangle framework: how actors, context, and processes interact to produce policy. Networks: evolved to help explain the way growing numbers of actors interact around policy issues. Multiple-streams theory focuses on agenda setting, postulates that problems, possible solutions, and politics flow along in separate streams in our society. Punctuated-equilibrium theory: postulates that policymaking typically proceeds in small incremental steps that can be disrupted by bursts and rapid transformation. A core model of the public policymaking process. Policymaking occurs in three interrelated and cyclinical phases: formulation, implementation, and modification.
