The Creation of Public Policy

The U.S. Congress is a very powerful bicameral legislative body that make the laws. In Congress, the elected representatives have the power to develop needs and wants that people request. Their most important role is to protect our human rights because it affect our daily lives. All members of Congress represent the different perspectives of people and attempts to reach an accommodation because they are responsible for improving the quality of our lives. In order for an agency to operate, they need funds from the government to achieve their mission statement.

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This year in AP Government we covered several topics including constitutional underpinnings, political beliefs and citizen behavior, political parties and interest groups, along with the institutions of the government, civil liberties and civil rights as well as public policy. In this essay I will analyze the connections between these topics and how they work together to help our country 's government run smoothly. The constitutional underpinnings include characteristics embodied in our current government such as federalism, representative democracy, and John Locke’s philosophies. Federalism in the constitutional underpinnings also links to the institutions of government because federalism describes the separation of power

The Supreme Court has been active in the past decades in review of democratic morality policies. The judicial review of state and local laws is important for organizations to use policy-making tools to show a direct link between the courts and other officials. The constitution has a significant impact on policy adoption and how these impacts are sometimes at the conditional of state political power. Morality policies raises important constitutional questions that are answered by the US Supreme Court, these questions involv... ... middle of paper ... ...evel Administrative Procedures Acts (SLAPA). SLAPA was considered a function that was instrumental in helping the Democrats keep control in Congress.

Furthermore, the policy maker must decide on how strict the guidelines must be followed by the entity. Lastly, they encounter the question of how detailed the policy should be for what it is trying to enforce? The ultimate goal is to alter a behavior in... ... middle of paper ... ...des us with and analytical processes before the policy is assembled. Most importantly design policy keeps in mind the social construction of reality, this means keeping in mind rules, cultures, norms, businesses and identities of its constituency. It looks at the population that will be affected and into how it will social change the norms and reality they experience everyday to create a successful policy.

There is a definite need for Congress in the United States. It serves many roles such as making laws, implementing national policy and watching over the other two branches of government. These are just a few of the duties of our U.S. Congress. Although they are essential to our government, there are potential problems. People are not always satisfied with the length of time involved in passing a law as well as the deadlock Congress can experience on an issue.

The word change has become a very comprehensive word in every aspect. That word could mean the progression of societies or the shift of mindsets, but when people talk about change in the United States it’s difficult to not spotlight the strife during the Civil Rights movement as one of the biggest changes the country encountered. So when a group or individual wants to modify a legal policy, it should be evident to concentrate the efforts toward the top with the legislative bodies. Legislative bodies provide the trickledown effect that is vital to the fortitude of a change in a legal policy. The reasons why change in a legal policy should be concentrated in the legislative bodies are; to get representation and to be alongside the frame that holds controlling power of most of America.

Bureaucratic accountability which is the ability of the government, especially the president, Congress, and the courts to hold the bureaucracy responsible for it performance and its actions (study,com). 2. What is public policymaking? Policy refers to a broad statement that reflects future goals and aspirations and provides guidelines for carrying out those goals Hill (1993: p.47) defines as the product of political influence, determining and setting limits to what the state does. Public policy to be more precise, when a government

Introduction By arguing who the actor is to be responsible to fit into the position of social laws, public policy expresses itself in term of “public offices within government, and by extension the citizens they represent, choose to do or not to do about public problems” (Kraft & Furlong, 2013, pg. 3) in which public policy is the regulation people are following other than laws and regulations. Due to its complexity, policy cycle has been generated as the end-producer of this policy institutionalism. Implicitly, a number of fundamental elements are to be notified as the most significant factors to focus on how well-designed the policy cycle is by regarding to the aspects policy cycle concentrate on. While we pay attention on analyzing the current existing policy cycle developed by Lasswell, the thought of this certain structural paradigm is the key to unlock this door to encourage us to distinguish what the relationship is between policy cycle and cycle-relevant theories.

United States being a federal system, large number of decisions is not only made by the Federal, but also by state and local governments. Government uses various tools like Law, services, money, taxes, other economic instruments and suasion to influence policies. These tools are unique to the Government and may not be available to private parties. Peters suggest that a huge amount of money flows through the government and it gets redistributed to different people in forms of goods and services (Peters, 2013). Since governments have the resource and rights to influence social agendas, Government has to be involved in policy making.