Assignment task: Please critically analyze an enacted state policy that has been in place long enough that you can find data to show how effective, efficient, and so forth it is.
Please:
- Establish the brief history of the issue
- Identify the major policy concepts and contexts
- Identify the stakeholders
- Review the development and implementation of the policy (what was the policymaking process?)
- Evaluate the effectiveness, efficiency, fairness, ethics, feasibility, acceptability, unintended consequences, costs, and maintainability.
- Provide an analysis with recommendations for improving or modifying the policy (be sure to include your recommendations for adjustments, expansion, or alternatives).
- Situate your analysis in the contemporary policy literature.
Please provide four peer reviewed journal sources.