In order to build a policy agenda, policy practitioners:
a. Use interactional skills to place issues on the agendas of decision makers.
b. Use analytic skills to create the impression that a problem deserves attention.
c. Use political skills to associate issues with political threats.
d. All of these choices.
ANS: D
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