UAPP225 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: United States Forest Service, Cuban Missile Crisis, Elite Theory
13 May 2017
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Orientations to policy analysis: scientific, search for truth and build theory about policy actions and effects, professional, analyze policy alternatives for solving public problems, political, advocate and support preferred policies. Agenda setting & power: process by which problems and proposed solutions gain or lose public or elite attention, linked to problem/definition framing. How do issues reach the agenda: leadership activity (elite actors, group reactions to other groups" actions/success, crises and focusing events punctual equilibrium, protest movements, to create a crises, media coverage or activity, political changes. The importance of power: what is power, the ability to get what you want and to prevent others from getting power, what is politics, who gets what. Power in policymaking: who and what controls the agenda: elite theory, pluralism, advocacy coalition theory. * theory" is an abstract representation of the real world; an attempt to explain how and wh things work the way they do .
