Chapter 4

Question 1

Systematic Agenda

Answer 1

when a problem is accepted and deemed worthy of policy makers attention

Question 2

Institutional Agenda -

Answer 2

Comprises all issues actually being considered for action by decision makers
- narrow agenda
it is

Question 3

Pluralist approach

Answer 3

policy making is divided into a number of separate arenas
- open marketplace for ideas and new policies
groups have relatively equal power
- actors generally agree on the rules of the game
- the dominant approach to American policymaking
-multiple access points are available

Question 4

Elitist approach

Answer 4

• contradicts pluralist approach
• assumes that a “power elite” dominates decision making and the policy process
• the same interests consistently win
• skeptical about the organizing capacity and resources of the lower class

Question 5

elitist approach

Answer 5

elites keep issues off the agenda
- suggests that demands for change that threaten the existing allocation of benefits and privileges are suffocated by decision makers

Question 6

state centric approach

Answer 6

• the focus is on pressured groups
  -places the locus of competiiton over agenda setting within the government itself
  fits well with the concept of iron triangles
  debate over wether source of expansion of government is within congress or within bureaucracy
• state and local government are ahead of the federal government in addressing issues

Question 7

Think Tanks

Answer 7

a way to formulate policy

Question 8

Interest Groups

Answer 8

who formulates policy

Question 9

members of congress

Answer 9

who formulates policy