1. Actors

2. Announcements Deliverables needed for projects:
Lit review (Sept. 28)
Problem statement and background (Oct. 3)
Overview of deliverable (October 10)
List of key collaborators/partners/audience (October 17)
Next week: 5 minute project overview
Mandatory and graded
Electronic/hard copy

3. Official actors Casework Oversight Committees Senator pothole
What’s in the news lately? GAO and gov’t advertising
Hearings:9-11, Katrina, etc.
Committees

4. Legislature Casework Oversight Committees Senator pothole
What’s in the news lately? GAO and gov’t advertising
Hearings:9-11, Katrina, etc.
Committees

5. Executive branch
Agenda setting: power to persuade
Veto

6. Administrative Agents and Bureaucrats
Erica: Wilson, J.Q., “The Rise of the Bureaucratic State” p Theodoulou and Cahn. • Toni: Meier, K., “Regulation: Politics, Bureaucracy, and Economics” p Theodoulou and Cahn.
Agencies and public goods
Accountability
Capture
Fears not borne out?

7. Melissa: Reynolds, “Public Administrators and Policy Agendas: Some Preliminaries to Statute

8. Courts
Brendan: Crenson, M. and Ginsberg, B. “The Jurisprudence of Personal Democracy” (E- Reserve)
Russell: Baum, L., “Appellate Courts as Policy Makers” p Theodoulou and Cahn.
Are the courts just umpires?

9. Unofficial Actors

10. Citizens
Jon, Elaine: Berger, P. and Neuhaus, R. “To Empower People: From State to Civil Society”
Erin: Almond, G. and Verba, S., “From The Civic Culture” (E-Reserve)
Are people rational maximizers of self interest?

11. Interest Groups
Molly, Sarah K : Crenson, M. and Ginsberg, B. “From Masses to Mailing Lists” (E-Reserve) , Peak associations
Social movements
Private vs. public interest groups
Free riding
Lobbying
Mass mobilization, protest and litigation

12. Political Parties

13. Business
Mintz, B. “The Failure of Health-Care Reform: The Role of Big Business in Policy Formation” (E-Reserve) Maggie

14. Consultants
Kristen & Will: Sabato, L, “The Consultant Corps” p Theodoulou and Cahn.

15. Think Tanks
Kevin, Carol: Callahan, D. “$1 Billion for Ideas: Conservative Think Tanks in the 1990s” (E- Reserve)
Response time to Katrina

16. Communications Media
How credible is CNN? Commercial interests and 24 hr news
Agenda-setting function
Do commercial interests influence news? Time and ‘managing the earth’
• Alice, Tom: Iyengar, S. and Kinder, D., “News That Matters” p Theodoulou and Cahn.

17. Professionals
Sara J: McKnight, J. “Professionalized Services: Disabling Help for Communities and Citizens” (E-Reserve)

18. Subgovernments, issue networks and domains
Policy domain: competition and compromise
Policy community
Iron triangle
distributive policies
Issue networks
• Heclo, H., “Issue Networks and the Executive Establishment” p Theodoulou and Cahn. Marc

19. Prying open policy networks
Creating/exploiting focusing events
Social movements and mobilization
Exploiting decentralization
Going public