A Public Policy Primer: How to Get off the Sidelines and into the Game

Autor/in	Hollister, David C.
Institution	Institute for Educational Leadership
Titel	A Public Policy Primer: How to Get off the Sidelines and into the Game
Quelle	(2007), (36 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
ISBN	1-9334-9314-3
Schlagwörter	Politics of Education; Internet; Social Change; Legislation; Citizenship Education; Citizen Participation; Community Leaders; Democracy; Public Policy; Courts; Futures (of Society); Aging (Individuals); Mortality Rate; Population Trends; Power Structure; Program Effectiveness; Michigan + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Educational policy; Bildungspolitik; Sozialer Wandel; Gesetzgebungslehre; Citizenship; Education; Politische Bildung; Politische Erziehung; Staatsbürgerliche Erziehung; 'Citizen participation; Citizens'' participation'; Bürgerbeteiligung; Community leadership; Gemeindeleitung; Demokratie; Öffentliche Ordnung; Court; Gerichtshof; Future; Society; Zukunft; Aging; Altern; Mortalitätsrate; Bevölkerungsprognose
Abstract	This Primer is intended to help individual citizens and community leaders and organizers (1) better understand the complex nature of decision making in democracy and (2) identify strategies for having a larger voice and impact. This publication is predicated and draws upon the author's 40 years of extensive and hands-on experiences in varied leadership roles--elected as well as appointed--at the local, state, and national levels. A joint effort of the Institute for Educational Leadership (IEL) and the Michigan site of IEL's Education Policy Fellowship Program (EPFP), the Primer is structured around three kinds of policy. The first focuses on the gold standard of public policy: Good Policy/Good Politics. The second describes Good Policy/Bad Politics; and the third type is Bad Policy/Good Politics. This Primer presents--in a practical, readable manner--the policy framework within which the political system operates and describes the people and the organizations that drive the multi-faceted democratic system. It elaborates on different kinds of policy and the diverse styles of elected officials and on how politics intersects with these factors. The three arenas in which policy is made--elected bodies, courts, and the "streets"--are discussed as are the varied ways elected bodies make policies as diverse sets of actors interact with the political system. The final section of the Primer discusses how communities and individual citizens can most effectively organize to influence and have an impact on the policy and political system. Factors such as the importance of numbers, legitimacy, and diverse forms of power are discussed. The Primer concludes with the key ingredients and rules of successful group action, including the twenty-first century phenomenon--the Internet. A Simple Guide for Social Change is appended. (Contains 1 footnote.) [Funding for this paper was provided by the Michigan Education Policy Fellowship Program.] (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10