political resource model and the garbage can theory
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" The policy making process is organized as a ' collection of choices looking for problems, issues, and feelings looking for decision situations in which they might be aired, solutions looking for issues to which they might be the answer, and decision makers looking for work.'" (Michael Cohen, James March, and Johan Olsen, " A Garbage Can Model of Organizational Choice," Administrative Science Quarterly, 1972) Political actors use resources to, " produce a political output, which can be manipulated directly or supplied by some actor." (Meredith, 1) These resources, Authority, Force, Information, Legitimacy, Status, and Wealth, are used by political actors in achieving their goals, to make policies, and to move up in government and in their positions. Now with these resources, political actors use them to make and pass policies. This is where the Garbage Can Theory comes into play. Political actors listen to the needs of the people of his/her state and try to pass legislation to help the people he/she represents. In systemic agendas, the public brings forth their problems they're having or issues they want to confront and move for policy changes. This then moves to governmental agendas, in which political actors use the resources that they have to use to bring forth the new policy or policy changes they and their people want to be made. Then comes in decision agendas. " A decision agenda, a list of subjects that is moving into position for an authoritative decision, such as legislative enactment or presidential choice, is a set somewhat differently...