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Two page for each questions
Your essay should demonstrate that you understand the relevant concepts as covered in lecture and in the readings.
Integrate specific names, terms, and examples to enrich your essay.
Possible Question 1
Scenario: You are chief advisor to recently elected Representative I. Nolittle. Nolittle has two policy objectives: 1) to save the taxpayers money by reducing the number of new F-35 fighter aircraft the military will buy over the next five years, estimated to cost $90 M each, and 2) to allow the harvest of trees on federal land without interference by distractions, such as environmental values.
Inform Nolittle about how the policy system generally works, especially regarding the role of interest groups and the interactions of groups, committees, and agencies in policy subsystems or subgovernments.
Specifically, write a memo to Representative Nolittle that does the following:
1) Explains the concept of policy subsystems or subgovernments. Describes the nature of the two models of subsystems covered in class and in the readings. Note how they may change over time.
2) Use military procurement and timber/public lands policy to demonstrate how policy subsystems can work.
Possible Question 2
Imagine you are a policy analyst for one of the following groups: 1) Education Advancement Today ("EAT"), which seeks to reduce student debt and the student cost of higher education, or 2) Help Investers Today ("HIT"), which seeks to eliminate regulations in the finance industry.
Write a memo to either MOM's or to HIT's newly-hired director that:
1) Explains the meaning and policy implications of the terms:
1 "event: occurrences with social consequences",
2 "condition : situation accepted as inevitable or unchangeable",
3"problem: sitions that people seek to change", and
4"public problem : situations people seek to have the government help to change";
2) Uses the above terms to develop a strategy to direct political and/or public attention to your issue;
3) Explains what a "problem broker" is induvial, group, and coalitions that seek to promote their policy objectives by directing political attention towards specific issues and controlling how those issues are viewed.
and how they might promote your policy goals;
3) Considers whether this coming year will be a good year to advance your cause, and why or why not.
Possible question 3 is on the next page.Possible Question 3
A problem or issue's characteristics can help explain how much attention it receives since they can either automatically draw attention to the topic, or make it easier for interest groups to direct public attention to it.
List, explain, and provide examples of the four of the six characteristics identified in class that can help draw attention to a problem.
1- Effete of issues
2- Analogous nature
3- Spillover
4- Symbolic importance
Explain in significant detail what Deborah Stone says about the use of "numbers" ( in the reading PDF) as ways to influence the public agenda.
Based on this approach, identify an issue you think will receive extensive attention in 2019 and one that will receive very little. Explain your choices.