Public Policy, Ist Edition by Pearson

CHAPTER 2

Public Policy Process, Models, and Analysis

The purpose of this chapter is to provide an overview of the public policy process, models, and analysis. As we progress in this chapter, we will discuss first what a public policy process in general is. Then we discuss corporate political activities and how they affect public policy-making. In the third section, we will briefly explore the topic of Business political activities and their types like lobbying, political action committee contributions, policy advocacy, and coalition-building. In section 4, we discuss the nine public policy models viz., Process Model, Rationalist Model, Incremental Model, Group Model, Elite Model, Public Choice Model, Institutional Model, Polis Model, and Game ...