CMC Public Policy Process Course: Policy, Interests, Decisions, Incentives

About the Blog

I shall post videos, graphs, news stories, and other material. We shall use some of this material in class, and you may review the rest at your convenience. I encourage you to use the blog in these ways:

--To post questions or comments about the readings before we discuss them in class;

--To follow up on class discussions with additional comments or questions.

--To post relevant news items or videos.

There are only two major limitations: no coarse language, and no derogatory comments about people at the Claremont Colleges. This blog is on the open Internet, so post nothing that you would not want a potential employer to see.

Syllabus is at https://gov116.blogspot.com/2021/08/syllabus-for-public-policy-process-cmc.html

Sunday, September 29, 2013

Policy, Interests, Decisions, Incentives

Stages of the Policy Process

Initiation
Estimation
Selection
Implementation
Evaluation
Termination

E.E. Schattschneider: "What happens in politics depends on the way in which people are divided into factions, parties, groups, classes, etc. The outcome of the game of politics depends on which of a multitude of conflicts gains the dominant position."