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Consider: What are some of the major influences on the bucy ?

Consider: What are some of the major influences on the bucy ?. This room, on UCLA’s campus, is where the Internet (ARPANET) was born. Homework : Assignment 17 for Wednesday. What impacts the decisions made by ‘ crats ?. The bureaucrats themselves

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Consider: What are some of the major influences on the bucy ?

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  1. Consider: What are some of the major influences on the bucy? This room, on UCLA’s campus, is where the Internet (ARPANET) was born. Homework: Assignment 17 for Wednesday

  2. What impacts the decisions made by ‘crats? • The bureaucrats themselves • Personal Attributes – political, personal or otherwise • Culture of the agency – laws/routines of agency, and fellow employees • Constraints – Procedures (notice of adoption of rule), FOIA, environmental impact statements, Sunshine laws • Interest Groups - #s are large and growing • Congressional committees and subcommittees • Outside the beltway? • Media, Universities , Think-tanks, the general public

  3. IronTriangles • An older model used to describe how policy is made • Also known as “client politics”

  4. Issue Networks (“Velcro Triangles”?) • More recently, the “iron triangle” explanation of policy outcomes has fallen out of favor with political scientists… • A new, more fluid model has been proposed • Issue networks – affiliations of political executives, interest groups, congressional committees, media, think tanks, private companies, and others who all work together on a particular issue to enact a change in policy.

  5. A Rudimentary Issue Network • For a change in American policy towards Cuba…

  6. Alliances within the Bucy • Interagency councils • Working groups formed to facilitate the coordination of policy among the various agencies who are stakeholders • US Interagency on Homelessness • Coordinates the activities of many agencies that work to end homelessness • Policy Coordinating Committees • Facilitate interaction among agencies and departments at the sub-cabinet level • HSC – PCC • In order to more effectively protect the homeland, formed to coordinate many agencies across cabinet departments

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