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Tuesday, August 31, 2021

Gov 116 Begins!

 For Thursday, read Stone, introduction, and ch. 1

The policy cycle:



This chart is an abstraction.  The actual process is messier.  For instance, policymakers often do estimation and evaluation poorly, if at all.

Everything is political, even (and especially) the data:

Juking the stats in red and blue:



Background features of public policy:

Federal bureaucrats implement very little federal domestic policy.

There are more than 90,000 governments in the USA.



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