BDP 101 Final Paper Overall, I learned a great deal in this class. Although I have taken government courses in the past, I don’t feel as though I ever truly learned about the ins and outs of the policy making process. I gained a better understanding of how policy is actually made and how so many different factors influence the process. I also now understand more about a variety of different policy issues that I was uninformed on before, such as immigration and defense, and also learned more about issues that I had a background in, like health and Zika, specifically. I enjoyed hearing from a variety of different people from diverse backgrounds, who all had unique experiences and views from which to inform us. The first two lectures, the introduction to policy making and agenda setting, gave a good background to the topic and laid a good foundation on which to discuss more specific issues. The policy triangle and the basic policy making sequence both were easy to understand and gave a good overview of this complex process. The further discussion of agenda setting opened my eyes to the importance of deciding what even makes it to the table to be discussed. It is easy to forget that before topics can even be debated and addressed, someone has …show more content…
One thing that I do not feel like I learned that much about was how “ordinary people” can make a difference. We heard from researchers, journalists, doctors, and many other people who weren’t directly involved in government but I don’t feel also it was expressly addressed how we can participate in this process as students or young adults. Overall, I am very glad I took this class and think it has broadened my understanding of our government and has supplemented my education for the Bridging Disciplines Program. This course fit in well with my certificate in Social Inequality, Health and Policy and will help me in the
Through the duration of this course some of my opinions on civic issues have changed and some have stayed the same. An opinion of mine that has changed is the number of flaws in our education system. This is an important civic issue because the education of young people is deciding the future of this world. This is politically significant because this generation will grow up to be a part of politics whether running for a role in the federal, provincial, or municipal parliamentary or simply voting in an election.
At the beginning of this article, the author brings up the fields of policy studies, how to understand the policy making and how they
Have you ever asked yourself why is important for college students to know about the government in the state they live in? I believe that it is important for students in college to understand the way their state works because that will give them more knowledge when it comes to voting for the right candidates. For me, knowing what laws and policies are being passed in the state I live in and how those laws can affect me is really important. I am really familiar with everything happening in Texas, but I believe this class is going to help me learn a lot about the government. Most of the college students think that what happens regarding policies and laws does not affect them, but even if they do not affect them right away they might in the
While taking this course I benefited from learning a variety of things about the American government, as well as refreshing my memory on somethings I already knew. What didn’t work for me was my time management skills. I am used to writing papers may be two days before the due date. This did not work so well for me because the most difficult part of the paper tended to be the last part. On one of my papers I could not finish the last section of the paper because I didn’t give myself enough time. Videos that were played in during were also very helpful in this course. I did enjoy watching the clip about the Veterans. It was very shocking that many benefits that Veterans now have they weren’t automatically given. Fighting for a country is a very
The purpose of this paper is to analyze the movie called “Steel Magnolias” (1989) directed by Herbert Ross.
In this paper we will discuss the final stages of how a topic becomes a policy. The paper will discuss formulation, implementation, and the legislation stage. These stages must be done in this order to ensure the policy is being formed the correct way and not scattered around. This paper will also consist of the evaluation stage, analysis stage, and revision stage and describe the purpose and methodologies process for evaluating and revising a public policy.
The two priority problems for Mr. George are Hypertension and Diabetes (hyperglycemia). It has been demonstrated that arterial hypertension is major important determinant of heart diseases. The pathogenesis of hypertension is linked with multiple factors that include dietary, genetic, and patterns of lifestyle. The biological factors that determine hypertension include: atherosclerosis, resistance to insulin; hyper-responsiveness towards adrenalin based stimuli and dysfunction of endothelial cells. It was studied that the evidence suggests that decrease in the ratio of prevalence of high blood pressure gives rise to reduced ratio of cardiovascular related mortalities. It can be achieved through intervention with suitable medical therapy (Villalpando et al., 2010).
I choose to use my older sister,Chioma, for this assignment because I felt like she was the perfect candidate to explain what she does. I decided to call my sister and ask if she was available to help on November 1,2017. I said my name and explained why I thought she my best resource.She came up with an idea that we could actually meet up at a private place so that I can be interviewed. We scheduled to meet up on a Sunday because it was basically the only day we were both free. She choose one of the officesses that she worked at earlier in the year; and thought that 2:00 pm was a reasonable time.That following Sunday we meet up and was dressed in formal attire. I wore a tan button down with a blue tie, and accompanied with black slacks. My
B. Has your firm, or any officer of your firm, been involved in any transaction in which the firm defaulted on a contract?
When we first started the course I had very little knowledge about the United States Government. Now, I feel like I have learned a lot and amd able to hold a conversation with someone about our government and actually understand what they are saying and some of the terminology. My growing knowledge of the United States government has and will continue to impact my personal sense of what it means to be an United States citizen. Since I now understand things better I feel like it is easier for me to be more involved with our government since I am no longer as confused as I was before. After taking the class I have seen the importance of participating in things such as voting and why the government decides to make and enforce certain decisions
How has this course influenced your daily habits, beliefs, and actions, i.e. your world-view? Understanding the political nature of terrorism has helped me to understand numerous different social issues. Understanding of terrorism is not irrational, but emerges from genuine political disagreement is incredibly helpful. By this same logic, I now understand that criticism of protest movements, like black lives matter; often miss .the underlying structural point that there is systemic discrimination. This does not justify burning cars or looting buildings, but these problems cannot really be solved with police crackdowns. Instead, they can be solve with a genuine attempt to understand where these people are coming from. Instead of demonizing the protestor, we should seek to understand and empathize with them to achieve mutual understanding and encourage positive
Throughout times, democracy has emerged as the best political way to rule a country. Within democratic systems, citizens have to vote for people who will represent them in the decision-making system. The question that John Kingdon wanted to understand in his writing of How Do Issues Get on Public Agendas? is how the legislative process and the public policies are made. John Kingdon well illustrates the processes by which an issue becomes policy issue, named the Cohen-March-Olsen, and the coming together of three processes. In the Cohen-March-Olsen, Kingdon proposed three stream: problem-recognition, policy stream of proposals and political stream.
My difficult questions surround the doing and the reading of the policy process. There are three areas that I would like further explore: the role of citizen participation in the policy process, importance of critical and postmodern perspectives in understanding public policy, and the role of government.
Over the semester I hope to learn a few concepts from this course, fist being the voting habits and patterns of urban voters. After graduation I plan on going back to my home city and
In addition, my understanding of politics has complete been altered by taking this course. I am aware that politics is not just in our political system but also around us. It 's in our economic, social, environmental, society, community, and