Question

Discuss tactics that policy practitioners use within each of the three streams to increase the odds that a specific issue will be placed on decision agendas. The three streams are political stream, the context problem stream in the cultural context and solution stream in the cultural context.

Answer 1

The tactics that policy practitioners use within each of the three streams political stream, the context problem stream in the cultural context to increase the odds that a specific issue will be placed on decision agendas are the identification of the problem after this analysis of alternatives to recommending policy solutions; Smith (2010). Policy entrepreneurs introduce and promote their ideas on different occasions, investing time and energy for increasing their chances of getting an idea placed on the decision-making agenda (Kingdon, 1995). For this they are active in both the problem stream and the policy stream, they act quickly as the policy window opens i.e. the opportunity passes them by (Zahariadis, 2007).