You first begin this experiment by purchasing the materials needed. Those materials are: stickers, markers, glue sticks, carrot sticks, celery sticks, colored bags, and brown bags. Once you’ve made the purchase of all the items, decorate the colored bags with the stickers and make fun designs with the markers and use the glue stick if needed. Next, fill the decorated, colored bags and the brown bags with either ten carrot sticks or ten celery sticks or five of each. Then, take the snacks to separate classrooms children between the ages of four and five and observe them over a week’s period. The main goal of the experiment is to see whether or not the appeal of the packaging persuades children to eat healthy so record the data in a table. I order to collect the data, retrieve the bags of snacks after each child is finished and see how many items were eaten. Once this is determined over a week’s time, compare the decorated bag’s results and the brown bag’s results. If the hypothesis is proved by a majority of the items being eaten out of the decorated bags then the experiment was a success. Seminar in Public Administration (RP 515) // CR 20381
Week 4 (6 Feb) – Public Policy
Discussion Leader: Juanita White
Thomas R. Dye (2013): Chapter 3 – The Policy Making Process: Decision-Making Activities, pp. 28-50.
The Policy Process: How Policies Are Made
The study of how policies are made generally considers a series of activities, or process, that occur within the political system. These processes together with the activities involved and likely participants may be portrayed as in Table 3-1 pp. 29.
• Problem Identification
• Agenda Setting
• Policy Formulation
• Policy Implementation
• Policy Evaluation
Problem Identification and Agenda Setting
Who decides what will be decided? Deciding what will be the problems is even more important than deciding what will be the solutions. Creating an issue, dramatizing it, calling attention to it, and