Public Policy Setting the Agenda for for policies that affect us

What is Policymaking? Public policy: a general plan of action adopted by government to solve a social problem, counter a threat, or pursue an objective Choosing not to do anything is also a decision: maintaining the status quo All public policies are the means by which government pursues certain goals within specific situations Many of the issues we talked about last week are problems that we are facing!

Types of Policies Distributive policies: government policies designed to confer a benefit on a particular institution or group Redistributional policies: policies that take government resources, such as tax funds, from one sector of society and transfer them to another Regulation: government intervention in the workings of a business market to promote some socially desired goal Public Policy Tools Incentives: induce people to change their behavior for a favorable outcome Disincentives: discourage particular behavior Direct provision of services or programs Setting rules: what various businesses or individuals may do in the marketplace

I’m the DDOJSIOC! “Deputy Director of Operations for Joint Systems Interdepartmental Operational Command” The Pursuit of Coordination Mechanisms of coordination 1)Inter-agency task forces 2)Reorganization 3)Office of Management and Budget Fragmentation may be solved when an industry asks national government to develop single regulatory policy Sept 11th brought out the large issues with this system, so how should we fix it? Think about all the issues that we discussed last week and jurisdiction! The Pursuit of Coordination Mechanisms of coordination 1)Inter-agency task forces 2)Reorganization 3)Office of Management and Budget Fragmentation may be solved when an industry asks national government to develop single regulatory policy Sept 11th brought out the large issues with this system, so how should we fix it? Think about all the issues that we discussed last week and jurisdiction!

The policymaking process! A Policymaking Model Agenda setting: the stage in which problems get defined as political issues Policy formulation: the stage in which formal policy proposals are developed and adopted Implementation: the process of putting specific policies into operation Policy evaluation: analysis of a public policy so as to determine how well it is working A Policymaking Model Agenda setting: the stage in which problems get defined as political issues Policy formulation: the stage in which formal policy proposals are developed and adopted Implementation: the process of putting specific policies into operation Policy evaluation: analysis of a public policy so as to determine how well it is working

Frag this! Multiplicity and Fragmentation Fragmentation: in policymaking, the phenomenon of attacking a single problem in different and sometimes competing ways Fragmentation is fundamental to the nature of policymaking in the U.S.