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POS 322: US Public P olicy Straus
Policy Analysis Paper
Required Sources
You must cite Stone
Agenda Setting: Cobb and Elder; Kingdon; or Lindblom)
Policy Design: Lowi; Schneider and Ingram
Substantive Policy: Nickels; Taylor; or Ravitch
Your additional secondary, substantive citations should be built from the citations in one of the three substantive works read as a class.
You are welcome to conduct original research, as well. This will work best for papers that have a local focus or significant media or social media coverage. You may conduct interviews or a media/social media analysis to include as data for your paper. If you conduct interviews, you must obtain IRB approval first; please see me for assistance with this process.