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| Advocacy Coalition Framework |
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| Policy making theory where each coalition consists of policy actors from different public and private institutions and different levels of government that share a particular set of beliefs about the policies that government should promote. Particularly within a policy subsystem such as agriculture, telecommunications or environmental protection. |
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| Step in the policy process whereby policy actors attempt to get an issue seriously considered for public action |
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| Regulatory policies that are mostly associatied with the regulation of specific industries and their practices |
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| Individual programs or grants that a government provides without regard to limited resources or zero sum situations (where one group's gain is another's loss) |
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| Policy-making theory that emphasizes how the values and preferences of governing elites, which differ from those of the public at large, affect public policy development |
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| Policy making theory that sees public policy as the product of a continuous struggle among organized interest groups: tends to believe that power in the U.S political system is widely shared among interest groups, each of which seeks access to the policy-making process |
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| Issues to which policymakers give serious and active consideration |
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| policy-making theory that emphasizes the formal and legal aspects of government structures; looking at the way governments are arranged, their legal powers, and their rules for decision making. |
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| modification of policy goals and/or the means used to achieve them |
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| term used to describe the policy process to indicate that the steps of the process can be continuous and cyclical |
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| step in the policy process that assesses whether policies and programs are working well |
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| step in the policy process that results in the development of proposed courses of action to help resolve a public problem |
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| The actual development of a program's details to ensure that policy goals and objectives will be attained; it is during this part of the policy process when one sees actual government intervention and real consequences for society |
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| The tool, such as regulation or education, that government uses to intervene in a given problem or issue |
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| step in the policy process that gives legal force to decisions or authorizes or justifies policy action |
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| policy making theory that stresses the way the political system responds to demands that arise from its environment, such as public opinion and interest group pressures; emphasis on larger economic, social, and cultural contexts. |
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| step in policy process whereby a particular issue is defined or explained in a particular way that people can understand |
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| regulatory policies that protect the general public from activities that occur in the private sector |
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| in making decisions individuals will weigh the costs and benefits and will make the decision that furthers their own self interest |
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| policies that provide benefits to one category of individuals at the expense of another, often reflect ideological or class conflict |
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| government restriction of individual choice to keep conduct from transcending acceptable bounds, often health, safety, and environmental policies |
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| issues the public is aware of and may be discussing |
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