Political Science 2246E Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Bounded Rationality, Incrementalism, Decision-Making
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Chief duty of public administrators to formulate, implement public policy. Thomas dye de nition suffers from inadequacies: regime theorists, thoroughists, etc. , fails to consider role of non decision making power, covert power (agenda controlling) Technical aspect: cheapest way of accomplishing task, political de nition factors in ideology (limits scope of policy solutions to be used) Advantages to howlett de nition: recognizes actors outside of government, and natural process, recognizes that accepts behave in an environment of constraint and differences in effectiveness between actors. Developed over time from closed system with clear end to open system that acts as more of an ongoing cycle. Policy cycle according to laswell: intelligence, promotion, prescription: pick an option, invocation: command that the option be implemented, application, termination, appraisal: assessment. Laswell"s impact on 5 stage model seen in slides. Difference: 5 stage model is more continuous cycle. Agenda setting stage: problem comes to awareness of gov, starts here.