POLS 3250 Lecture 4: Lecture 4 POLS 3250
19 Jan 2018
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Agenda setting- policy windows: spillovers (opportunities to create and change policy), factors to contribute to how agendas get set (crisis, problem, policy and politics) Addressing issues when they get on the agenda: a response may actually be to do nothing, just because it ends up on the agenda we may decide that we wont have a policy response (ex. Budgeting the only possible solution is too expensive so we do nothing ex. The political aspect takes over and people don"t want to deal with it) *the way we put the question of child poverty on the table reflects how we suggest the rest of our project (ex. Textbook- within our bubble of policy formulation is another bubble, you have a lot of other options and than you have to pick the best: appraisal, The best option will be technically capable, politically acceptable, administratively feasible. There is an argument that external proposals are not always administratively feasible (lobby groups)
