Focusing on the policy issue you have chosen to analyze, consider how policymakers planned to enforce the policy change and what the response
Directions:
Focusing on the policy issue you have chosen to analyze, consider how policymakers planned to enforce
the policy change and what the response of key stakeholders has been. Write a brief essay (no more than
one page) responding to the following questions:
a. Enforcement: (Answer only two of questions 1 to 5. Choose those questions that best apply to
your policy.)
1. What inducements were included to enforce the policy? Were the inducements largely
positive or negative, and have they had the anticipated effects of creating good will or ill
will? Why or why not?
2. What rules were established to enforce your policy? How did those rules balance the
tradeoff between precision and flexibility?
3. How did the governing agency attempt to persuade stakeholders to conform to the
policy? In your opinion were these efforts primarily informative or manipulative?
Explain.
4. What rights were granted by this policy and to what group? Are these best classified as
procedural or substantive rights? Explain.
5. How did this policy shift powers between different levels of government? How was this
restructuring of authority to be accomplished? Was the decision-making power to
become more or less centralized?
b. Unintended consequences: How have stakeholders responded to the policy in ways that were
unintended by policymakers? As a result, what issues have arisen in enforcing the policy? Have
policy makers revisited the policy to ‘close the loopholes’? Explain.
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