Assignment for Monday, 3/3

For next time, read Chapter 6 in Birkland, "Policies and Policy Types." Feel free to summarize (especially since there will be only one more reading until the break).

Assignment for Wednesday, 2/27

Next time we'll look at a specific example of policy evaluation/analysis. Read the exciting NASFAA report on student loan auctions, found here. Feel free to summarize.

Assignment for Monday, 2/25

On Monday, we will continue on to the next stage of the policy process: implementation. Read Birkland ch. 8, "Policy Implementation and Policy Failure."

No Assignment for Wednesday, 2/20

Note that there is NO CLASS on Monday, February 18 (President's Day). There is also no reading for Wednesday. (Aren't you lucky.) We will discuss the next stage in the policy process, legitimation/adoption.

Assignment for Wednesday, 2/13

For next time, read Birkland's Chapter 5, "Agenda Setting, Power, and Interest Groups." If you haven't yet written a summary, now would be a good time to start.

Assignment for Monday, 2/11

For next week, read the article by Burstein and Bricher that I handed out in class. If you were not in class, you can pick up a copy of the article from me on Thursday, or you can find it through the MMC library's online journals. The full title of the article is "Problem Definition and Public Policy: Congressional Committees Confront Work, Family and Gender, 1945-1990," and it's from the September 1997 issue of the journal, Social Forces.

Assignment for Wednesday, 2/6

For Wednesday, read Chapter 9 in Birkland, "Putting it All Together: Models of the Policy Process." You're welcome to read the whole chapter, but we'll really only discuss up to page 224, as well as the diagram on p. 225. (If you summarize this chapter, feel free to ignore pages 225-on as well.)