Learning Objectives
- How are policy agendas formed? Include of interactions and dynamics among actors, interests, institutions, and processes in the discussion.
- Trace the enactment of public policies by Congress and the president
- Discuss the implementation and interpretation of policies by the bureaucracy.
- Discuss the implementation and interpretation of policies by the courts in the policy process.
- Investigate and describe policy networks and issue networks in at least three domestic policy areas.
- Investigate and describe policy networks and issue networks in at least three foreign policy areas.
- Identify and describe the impact of federalism on policy processes and policymaking in the federal context.
- Identify and describe the impact of interest groups on policy processes and policymaking in the federal context.
- Identify and describe the impact of political parties on policy processes and policymaking in the federal context.
- Identify and describe the impact of elections on policy processes and policymaking in the federal context.