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Explore the dynamics of policy-making through the lens of institutions like bureaucracy, courts, and interest groups. Learn about judicial review, bureaucratic authority, lobbying strategies, and factors influencing policy success.
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Institutions and Policy Making: Bureaucracy, Courts, and Interest Groups
Courts and Policy Making • Courts of Appeals (Circuit Courts) • Supreme Court • Judicial Review • Interpretation • Precedent • Judicial restraint and judicial activism • “Activist judges”
Making Policy • Judicial Review • Interpretation • Precedent • Judicial Restraint and Judicial Activism
Bureaucratic Policy Making • Modern Bureaucracy • Bureaucratic Authority • Regulations • Deregulation
Influences on Bureaucratic Policy Making • President • Congress • Interest Groups • Iron Triangles • Issue networks • Courts
Interest Groups and Policymaking • Defining Interest Groups • Lobbying • Who do Interest Groups represent?
Interest Group Influence: Insider Strategies • PAC’s • Lobbying Congress • Lobbying the Bureaucracy • Fast Food Nation
Interest Group Influence: Outsider Strategies • Courts • Grassroots Lobbying • Protest
Factors affecting success in influencing policy • Group resources • Group intensity • Group competition • Group goals • Status Quo