1. Civic Involvement, Participation, & Skills
Topic 1
Civic Involvement, Participation, & Skills

2. Civic Involvement
Students can engage in societal problems to participate in opportunities to contribute to the common good through governmental & non-governmental channels

3. Civic Involvement Issue #1
Opportunities for civic engagement with the structures of government are made possible through political & public policy processes

4. a. What are political processes?
The process of the formulation & administration of public policy usually by interaction between social groups & political institutions or between political leadership & public opinion
Political processes are related to the acquisition of governmental power & influencing governmental decision making

5. b. What are public policy processes?
It is a multi-stage cycle (problem identification; agenda setting; policy making; budgeting; implementation; evaluation)
They’re related to the institutional actions & procedures involved with the gov’t. carrying out its functions