11.2 How Public Policy is Made

Multiple Choice

Why are policy agendas important to the politicians and the policymaking process?

• They are required to get the party nominations.

• They inform voters on the issues a candidate supports and creates votes.

• Congress wants to know the issues that a politician will support if elected.

• Public policies can not be suggested if they are not on a policy agenda.

Multiple Choice

What role do policymaking institutions have in creating public policy?

• They study that impacts that legislation has on the American public.

• They work together to make legislation about political issues.

• The president tells Congress and the courts how to create public policy.

Reorder

Reorder the following

• The minimum wage in your state is $7.25 an hour. The cost of living is too high and many people are struggling to survive on minimum wage.

• Protests by minimum wage workers an allies have captured the attention of legislators and local TV stations.

• Through meetings and speeches your legislator was able to get minimum wage on the political agenda/a committee surrounding this was made in PA's Congress

• The committee agrees and creates a policy that minimum wage will increase immediately to $9.50 then $10.00 after one year.

• Several years after the law is in effect, report show that the economy is booming and the public supports the law.

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