What are your reactions to your GTP reading? What
are your preliminary ideas for leading class meeting focused on this topic?
I think that the readings are interesting and provide a
variety of views on the topic of environmental policy. This is my
first college course experience with political science, so I found the
introduction to several different theories and models of the policy-making
process to be very interesting, and I could see some parallels to theories in
other disciplines, such as psychology, especially with the rational choice
theory. After reading about agenda setting, I feel like this step is the most
likely place for green politics approach to take hold. In this step at the
local level, the public can be more involved, which I feel is in line with
green values.
When our group talked in class, we considered the idea of
having the class consider a case study of an issue or policy and applying ideas
from the readings to it. But maybe we could separate the class into different
groups representing different interest groups: industry, businesses, the
policymakers, the general public, and other groups, and then walk through the
policy process. This would include the agenda setting, policy formulation,
policy legitimation, policy implementation, and finally policy and program
evaluation. This may be too long of a process to go through in class, so we may
need to abbreviate it or focus on one part.
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