Assignment is due 4/26 by 6pm.
Assignment Introduction:
David Easton’s Systems Theory
David Easton is considered to be one of the top ten Political Scientists to have lived and taught in the United States during the last fifty years. He graduated with a doctorate in Political Science from Harvard University. He died in 2014 at the age of ninety-seven.Professor Easton taught at the University of Chicago and the University of California Irvine.His most notable research entailed applying System Theory to the study of Political Science in the area of Public Policy Analysis (Gunnell, 2013).
Easton’s “five-fold scheme” has been utilized by professors, professionals and students for studying the public policy making process.The “five-fold scheme” as illustrated in Easton’s System Theory diagram consist of the following components: input(s), conversion, output(s), feedback, and environment.Law Making i.e. Legislative bodies act as the political system/process/conversion piece, with inputs being the pressure point that is applied to legislatures and the outputs are viewed as the result of the conversion process that ends up being the “decisions and actions” reached by the “Political System”(Gunnell, pp 190-210).
Assignment Instructions:
Assignment:Research and read via googling David Easton’s Theory. The fifteen words below are to be properly listed in five-word chunks as to what constitutes inputs, the political system/ process/conversion element and outputs.
Helpful Hint:Public Policy is considered to be the product(s) of the law-making process that ends up being enacted as laws, thereby becoming programs and policies i.e. Federal Government’s College Work Study programs that are offered at US Colleges and Universities. Find from the words below that fit in the right categories as described as Inputs, the political system/process/conversion and outputs.
Statutes, Stakeholders, Concessions, Policies, Debates, Lobbyists, Codes, Trade Offs, Voters, Resolutions, Deals, Laws, PAC’s Rules, and Media.
Inputs: Political System/Process/Conversion: Outputs: