POSC240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Pork Barrel, Standard Operating Procedure, College Town

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POSC240
• Professor: gerasimenko,olga

Document Summary

Implementation is the conversion of legislation, money, and manpower into real operating programs: more than something on a piece of paper, actually actions happening. Resources you commit to get the job done: policy impacts. Effects of the policy you implement onto society. Administrative agencies: perform most of the day-to-day work of government, have much discretion to decide what should or should not be done. The legislature: making detail legislation, approving top-level administrative appointments. I. e. the approval of elected executive departments: through the appropriations process. All must original from house of representatives: casework. The courts: some laws enforced through judicial action, may be directly involve in the administration of policy, through interpretation of statutes, administrative rules and regulation, and review of administrative decision. Interest groups: b(cid:455) i(cid:374)flue(cid:374)(cid:272)i(cid:374)g a(cid:374) age(cid:374)(cid:272)(cid:455)"s a(cid:272)tio(cid:374, by serving on boards of agencies, advisory groups. When getting ready to carry out the policy, go to interest groups to see what their positions are on it.