Kingdon's Agenda-Setting Model: Public Issues, And Public Problems?

1) Based on your reading explain what a policy or pubic problem is and also explain why they can be so complex to identify or resolve at times. (Open to all students which means any student from other group can respond)

Public problems are problems that affect numerous of people and having a wider effect, including consequences, whether you are part of the problem or not. A public problem becomes a problem if something can be done to resolve the problem. Public problems are difficult to resolve by a single individual’s action. The reason public problem can be complex to identify or resolve is because Public problem can be so complex to identify or resolve at times because:
• It can either be top-down or a bottom up process. (“Top-down implementation approach is a clear-cut system of command and control—from the government to the project, which concerns the people. Bottom-up

They can be hard to measure at time because the problem may be quite vague, policy-makers may be uncertain about the importance of the problem and in turn about effective solutions, or even whether they’re a need for governmental action. (Anderson, 93).

2) Explain the Kingdon’s Agenda-Setting Model:

The Kingdon’s Agenda-Setting Model is a model that identifies how some matters reach a governmental agenda. The Kingdon’s Agenda-Setting Model consists of three independent streams of activity, which include; problems stream, policy-proposals stream, and politics stream, that seldom meet, opening a “policy window” and permitting some matters to reach a governmental agenda (Anderson, 98-101).

• The problem stream consists of matters on which policy players, either inside or outside the government, would like to secure action.
For example, in the health area, for instance, people may be worried about the cost of health care, access to care, the adequacy of disease-prevention programs, or the need for more biomedical