Constituent Policies : Structure That Makeup The Government

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Constituent policies – involves the structure that makeup the government. Constituent policies are concerned with the establishment of government structure, establishment of rules or procedures for the conduct of government, rules that distribute or divide power and jurisdiction within the present and future government policies might be made. A structural example of constituent policy is the creation of Department of Homeland Security. In 2002, President George Bush did not see the need of a department to manage terrorism, however, he changed his mind and called on Congress to create a Department of Homeland Security. A procedural example of constituent policy is the Federal Administrative Procedure Act of 1946 with outlined the procedures to be used by agencies to ensure openness and fairness in agency decision-making. Constituent policies also include matters that involve personnel practices and budgetary actions.
b) Distributive policies – the allocation of benefits or services, at no cost, to particular segments of the population—individuals, groups, companies, or communities. These benefits or services include subsides, grants, loans, technical assistance, information (as on the weather), contracts, unemployment benefits, and river and harbor improvement actions. The cost of these benefits and services are paid by the public treasury, which means taxpayer generally.
c) Substantive policies- the part of the law that creates, defines, and regulates rights, what the government going to do. For example preventing the retail of sale of liquor, constructing highways, the law of contracts, torts, wills, and real property; the essential substance of rights under law.
d) Procedural policies – how is something going to be do...

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3. Understand how citizens can have an impact on influencing the policy agenda through mass mobilization or grass roots organizing or through interest groups, voting, running for political office, etc.
Grass roots mobilization: groups of likeminded individuals that bring about a solution to a public problem. These groups may not form larger coalitions and tend to disagree with the means of how to solve problem. These individuals and groups use numerous tactics to advance their interests. The tactics can include lobbying, advocating their positions publicly, attempting to educate supporters and opponents, and mobilizing allies on a particular issue. Perfect policies rarely emerge from the political process. Most often policy outcomes involve compromises among interested parties. Such as, Mothers Against Drunk Drivers (MADD), Megan Law (Sex Offender).

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