The Creation of Public Policy

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This paper is about how our government forms and decides to create public policy through the interaction of the branches, the influence of political parties, and the effects of media. So what is public policy? Public policy is the action taken by the government to make changes for the better. As the paper goes on one will learn about this even further throughout it.
When dealing with public policy and how it is created one must know how the idea is even brought up and put into motion. Anyone can have an idea for public policy and bring it to the government to be made to change something. When this happens a bill is created with this idea to later become a law if possible. Public policy is created because an issue arrives that someone doesn’t like and they want it to be changed. The government tries to make a policy to change it for the better. In other words a law is made to be created to change it if it continues through the process and is approved. Usually an issue for public policy arrives when there is an argument between two parties or committees. A lot of public policy is based on our legislative branch because they deal with funding in our government. A lot of today is concerned with funding in the government. They also make the laws so public policy focuses on them because of this as well. It states how the law has a major impact on public policy (“Kilpatrick”). With public policy the legislative branch is a major key when dealing with the creation in the beginning. If public policy does not pass through the Legislative Branch it won’t become a law.
There are five major steps to creating public policy. These steps are just like the regular decision making process that is used by everyone. ("The Five-Step ...

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