Each student will select one question to answer. You must include the page number in the book which assisted you with your answer. Each student will comment on two of their peers responses. No two students may answer the same question.
1. Discuss why legislators and executives in agencies have to “ration” issues.
2. Discuss the assertion that certain kinds of issues receive “preferential treatment” in problem solution, and political streams.
3. Discuss tactics that policy practitioners use within each of the three streams to increase the odds that a specific issue will be place on decision agendas.
4. Why do “windows of opportunity” open and close?
5. Why do advocates for powerless or oppressed populations sometimes encounter particular problems during agenda-setting processes? Do examples of successes of these advocates exist where they achieved considerable successes despite adverse odds?
6. Take any “policy entrepreneur” who played a particularly important role in getting an issue onto choice or decision agenda in an agency or legislature. What specific tactics did he or she use?
7. Discuss how Policy Advocacy Challenge 5.4 illustrates the diagnostic, softening, and activating roles of policy practitioners.
8. Discuss how political agendas develop in political campaigns, such as the presidential race of 2000 or specific congressional race in 2002.
9. Executives in agencies and legislators:
10. Incrementalists argue that executive favor small changes in policy because:
11. The diagnosing stage of agenda building refers to:
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