Compare And Contrast The Stages Of The Policy Making Process

To discuss the differences between the policy implementation stage and the policy evaluation stage of the policy making process lets first discuss the policy making process. There are six stages to the policymaking process: 1. Issue emergence, 2. Agenda setting, 3. Policy selection, 4. Policy enactment, 5. Policy implementation and 6. Policy evaluation. For a policy to be created, policy makers must first be made aware of a problem that needs to be addressed. This is the first stage, issue emergence. After addressing such problem policymakers will add the issue to an agenda before a policy can be created and adopted. This agenda is a list of issues that policymakers are seriously considering and is a part of the second stage. For example, last year when Governor Greg Abbott called for a special session, the following were on the agenda
However, in doing so they could also reveal even more problems that need to be addressed. The fourth stage, the policy enactment stage, happens after all aspects of a policy have been agreed on and can then go on to be adopted and authorized by the proper authority. The policy implementation stage is the fifth stage in the policymaking process where executive agencies and the state carry out the policies enacted by the legislature. Implementation includes but is not limited to: adopting processes and procedures to better fit new policies, providing services, enforcing rules and regulations and whatever else is deemed necessary to address an issue. The policy evaluation stage of policymaking is the final stage where political actors evaluate whether the policies they have enacted have impacted the problems they were trying to solve and if they helped achieve their goals. They collect data, measure the quality and training of