Describe the multiple streams approach to policymaking.
What will be an ideal response?
The multiple streams approach is a generalization of the garbage can model of policymaking. The logic of the multiple streams model is that three streams of factors--problems, politics, and policy characteristics--converge in somewhat accidental manners. Policy entrepreneurs may bring the various streams together in order to create a window of opportunity for policymaking.
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A) works program and building program. B) civil defense program and military program. C) insurance program and assistance program. D) education program and religious program. E) civil program and criminal program.
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A. incremental decision making B. rational-comprehensive policy making C. constructing policy alternatives D. root cause policy making
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a. the FARC b. Zapatistas c. Kshatriya d. Naxalites
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