Political Science 2246E Study Guide - Final Guide: Precommitment, Lead Instrument, Policy
25 Apr 2018
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Other key terms: policymaker decides on policy, policy taker operates within a policy framework, public interest majority preferences or views, commonly held interests and values. Characteristics of public policies: three elements of policy. Instruments: policy consistency: internal, vertical, and horizontal. Policy analysis is a process of multidisciplinary inquiry designed to create, critically assess, and communicate information that is useful in understanding and improving policies. The policy process: agenda setting, policy formulation, decision making, policy implementation, policy evaluation. Alternative models: institutional rational choice, individuals are constrained by institutions, incrementalism (cid:1131) (cid:708) (cid:451) (cid:451) (cid:451)(cid:1352) (cid:1085) . (cid:1130)(cid:1085) (cid:8595) (cid:452) (cid:8596) (cid:3626) (cid:709: successive limited comparisons, multiple streams, problem stream, policy stream, politics stream, punctuated equilibrium , brief periods of major policy change, the advocacy coalition framework , advocacy coalitions compete. The process of taking some indicator and answering three fundamental questions:
