Health Sciences 3400A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Opioid Epidemic, Incrementalism, Unsafe Abortion

• School: Western University
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: Health Sciences 3400A/B
• Professor: Maxwell Smith

Document Summary

List of issues to which an organization, usually the government, is giving serious attention at any one time with a view to taking some sort of action. List of issues that they think are important, and give priorities to them. Agenda setting: process by which certain issues come onto the policy agenda from the much larger number of issues potentially worthy of attention by policy makers, policy change begins with agenda setting. Focusing event policy term that is general enough to refer to crises: event that spurs a sort of policy response, e. g. , h1n1 crisis, sars, politics-as-usual. Incrementalism policy change occurs, if it does at all, through a gradual accumulation of small changes. Rational model of policy-making: problem recognition and problem framing, depends on decision-maker, how one defines/frames a problem will impact whether it gets on policy agenda, how one defines/frames a problem predicts policy solutions.