POL 106 Lecture 9: pol 9
23 Oct 2017
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** congress, the presidency, the bureaucracy, and the courts. Makes policies about how stuff should work. Structure ways people get into office to make and implement policies. Manifest the system of checks + balances. ** policy all starts with an idea. Somebody somewhere decides government ought to do something: pick an issue, want government to deal with it call it a policy, get it passed + implemented. ** lots of people run for congress because they have an issue with their community and want it fixed. ** policy ideas come from life experiences, problems to be solved, interest group demands, bureaucracies, ideologies. How a bill becomes a law (the long version) ** have to make coalitions to get anything passed. What do i do with this great idea. ** give it to the speaker of the house for assignment to a committee. Leader of the majority party in the house.
