Public policy Assignment PDF

Running head: PUBLIC POLICY
Public policy
Daniel Wood
Southern Arkansas University
September 28th, 2018

PUBLIC POLICY 2
The reason why citizens in any given country have a ruling authority is to try to solve the
daily problems that ordinary citizens face in an organized manner. Every government have its
way of addressing the issues that the citizens raise. However, in most of the circumstances, the
authority makes use of public policies. The term public policy refers to the means in which the
administration used to respond to the needs of the members of the society. Public policy is
purposive and a course of action that perceive problem of an constituency and constructs a
particular political process and adopts it to resolve the problem for example- policies for criminal
justice, civil rights, drug policy, arts, gun control, abortion but it is important to know who
actually enforces and influences the formation of policy formation. The first concern is general
public because most of countries follow democracy in which citizen affects the policy. Policy
makers have the ability to hold offices and senate and they are supported and vested in power by
acquiring votes from their constituencies. Government is responsible for policies forming such as
environmental policies to treat air quality and global warming. Economic policies considers
budget and taxation policy and undertakes measures to support when economy is in recession.
Educational policies consider that it is important to a person to have and access basic elementary
and secondary education. Inclusion to these, new agricultural policy in US is formed due to
unique geography, history, and weather. Agricultural policies have been formed to support
industrialization especially commodity-based agriculture. The federal government developed the
Dietary guidelines for Americans that emphasizes consumption of food produced by large-scale
farming (Milevska, Chichevalieva, Ponce, and Winkelmann, 2017). According to Dunn, (2015).
For example, if it is a matter of security, the government can come with a directive that
maintains a certain number of police of police officers in a specific region. The study of public
policies aims at analyzing how the government come up with essential programs to address the

PUBLIC POLICY 3
nation’s challenges. Although most policies are made to favor the maximum population but as
different people has different perception, any rule can be beneficial to particular groups but on
the other side it can be unbeneficial for to greater population (Sheikh, Sood, and Bates, 2015).
Those who study public systems enjoy various advantages. They can assist in coming up with
directives that solve poverty, health problems and address the general human rights in reference
to Hill & Hupe, (2014). The best policy-making platform here is politics. Public policy
determines the present and future decisions that both private individual, private institutional
actions designed in order to solve the given and prevailing problem. Policy makers involves and
undertakes a combination of processes that includes identifying the problem, formulating the
proposals to resolving method, legitimating public policy, implementing it and finally evaluating
it. Some of the example of public policies are EPA (Environmental Protection Act), Public health
law, NACCHO (National Association of Country and City Health Officials), HIS program, Food
and Drug Administration (FDA), National Drug Control Policy and other LPHA (Local public
health agency) (Sheikh, Sood, and Bates, 2015).
Public policy refers to medium the government use responds to the social challenges
regarding social, political and economic problems. For example, in the case of US, if the
government have identified that many people are not able to afford the medical care, the
Congress can pass some rules to ensure everyone can access treatment in reference to Vedung,
(2017). One way of doing it is coming up with medical insurance for every citizen.
On the other hand, the federal government of America have three main branches which
include Judiciary, Legislature and the executive. Beginning with the Judiciary, it is made up of
Federal courts and the Supreme court. All of the three branches have different functions such as
legislature creates the law. The law is formulated by elected body after a intense discussion