The steps of policy making
Essay #1:
The seven steps of the policy making process are:
1. Problem Recongnition
2. Agenda Setting
3. Policy Formulation
4. Poicy Adoption
5. Budgetting
6. Policy Implementation
7. Policy Evaluation
Each step of the policy making process all very important and vital in developing a policy.
In the Problem Recongnition step there is an identification of an issues that affects the people and causes a call to the government. For a condition to become a problem there needs to be a value that causes people to believe that the condition itself does not have to be accepted or tolerated and also is something that an be entrusted to the government to take care of. A prime example of this step is the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina left many homeless, distressed, and caused millions in property damage so Relief from the devastation of natural Distress is the problem being recongnized.
Following the problem recongnition and defined as significant one, it has to be brought to the attention of public officials and secure a place on the agenda. This step is when the problem which was recongnized is actually brought to the attention of officials in the government.An example of this is that the President is a major agenda-setter in the State of Union Addres sine he proposes a budget, gives special messages, and the President presents Congress with a legislative program for its consideration.
The Policy Formulation step is the crafting of proposed courses of action to resolve public problems. It determines what generally should be done to adress the problem and in a more technical aspect it states in a specific languagge what one wants to authorize or accomplish, in order to adequately guide those who must implement policy and to prevent distortion of legilative intent. An example of that would be that in the 1950's the building of highways was a policy that was used to address traffic safety.
Policy Adoption is the actual approval of a policy proposal by the
The seven steps of the policy making process are:
1. Problem Recongnition
2. Agenda Setting
3. Policy Formulation
4. Poicy Adoption
5. Budgetting
6. Policy Implementation
7. Policy Evaluation
Each step of the policy making process all very important and vital in developing a policy.
In the Problem Recongnition step there is an identification of an issues that affects the people and causes a call to the government. For a condition to become a problem there needs to be a value that causes people to believe that the condition itself does not have to be accepted or tolerated and also is something that an be entrusted to the government to take care of. A prime example of this step is the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina left many homeless, distressed, and caused millions in property damage so Relief from the devastation of natural Distress is the problem being recongnized.
Following the problem recongnition and defined as significant one, it has to be brought to the attention of public officials and secure a place on the agenda. This step is when the problem which was recongnized is actually brought to the attention of officials in the government.An example of this is that the President is a major agenda-setter in the State of Union Addres sine he proposes a budget, gives special messages, and the President presents Congress with a legislative program for its consideration.
The Policy Formulation step is the crafting of proposed courses of action to resolve public problems. It determines what generally should be done to adress the problem and in a more technical aspect it states in a specific languagge what one wants to authorize or accomplish, in order to adequately guide those who must implement policy and to prevent distortion of legilative intent. An example of that would be that in the 1950's the building of highways was a policy that was used to address traffic safety.
Policy Adoption is the actual approval of a policy proposal by the