Assignment:
Issue identification and definition, appointment of the coordinator of the policy making process, establishment of the policy development process, conduction of the research, preparation of the discussion paper, consultation stage one, preparation a draft policy, consultation stage two, adoption of the policy, communication and reviewing and evaluation form the aspects of the policy development cycle. The advances in science and technology continue to stir up societal issues that affect people across the globe hence the need for continued reviewing and implementation of the polices that address the issues affecting people (Weimer & Vining, 2017). Today, terrorism and climate take the center stage of the global issues affecting most people in the world. In the U.S, however, the issues of minimum wage and high possession of gun in the population have created heated debates among various stakeholders. The draft policy for review in this case is the plan to reduce the circulation of gun among the Americans to acceptable levels. Americans have easy access to guns with the high number of illegal firearm dealers fueling the increased level of gun circulation (Kalesan et al., 2016). In some regions of the country, the high ownership and possession of guns has led to increased insecurity hence jeopardizing the day-to-day lives of people. As such, reducing the rate of gun circulation would result in a safer America where businesses would boom due to guaranteed security.
The plan to reduce gun circulation among the public attracts a myriad of stakeholders across the country i.e. the business people, the federal, state and local security agencies, the public, affluent people etc. The business people (entrepreneurs) would find it hard to operate in an environment where their businesses are targets of thugs possessing guns (Weimer & Vining, 2017). Boosting business operations would necessitate a state of guaranteed security in the concerned region that improves the transportation of the raw materials and products to and from the business organization. Therefore, the primary interest of the business people would be to have a secured environment that fosters business operations. The federal, state and local agencies would be interested in seeing reduced cases of theft and insecurities in their areas of jurisdiction hence supporting the plan. The rich and affluent people in the society hardly get sleep on the thought of the low wage individuals stealing from them. As such, reducing the gun circulation among the public is a policy that they would ultimately support.
As mentioned above, policy development cycle involves a series of actions that might require the policy makers to go back to the former stages. In pushing for reduced gun population among the public, numerous risks would likely arise that would require continued consultation with the specialists and professionals in the field of security. Most people argue that the primary reason for their possession of guns is to secure themselves, their families and their properties. As such, most people would coy with the idea of handing in their guns (Kalesan et al., 2016). Additionally, the security agencies would have to block all the loopholes in the illegal trade of firearms failure to which the disarmament would have negligible effect on the number of guns in the population.
A good policy proposal ought to highlight the resources essential in the implementation of the policy by considering the ethical defensibility of the policy along with the stakeholders affected by the policy. The success in the adoption of the proposal stated above would require clear definition of the purpose intended by the policy and the recommendations to ensure success of the policy (Weimer & Vining, 2017). The concerned stakeholders ought to be advised and convinced to pick up the policy, as the pulling of all the stakeholders in the same direction would be the only guarantee for the success of the policy adoption.
Development of a policy requires consultation of the specialists and professionals in the concerned area. However, any decision-making process requires the input of people whose are most affected by the societal issue at hand whose deliberation on the problem touches on the actual hurdles on the ground (Weimer & Vining, 2017). The policy makers then integrate the inputs of the people on the ground along with the inputs of the professional advisors to come up with the policy whose adoption becomes the law. The business people, the security agencies and members of the public have various roles to play to ensure the success in the adoption of the policy (Kalesan et al., 2016). All the stakeholders must explain their concerns on the mentioned issue and recommend solutions that are worth adopting.
Time, labor, internet and finances are four primary resources essential in ensuring that the proposed policy comes to fruition. Implementation of this plan would require coordination of various people (labor) who would require time and finances to implement the recommendations of the policy. The hardest hurdle in the implementation of the policy would likely be the unwillingness of the gun owners to offer their firearms during the disarmament phase. Additionally, getting the adequate financial resources to implement the proposal might be a problem (Kalesan et al., 2016). The coordinator of the proposal would advocate for proper awareness on the need to reduce gun circulation in the population and identify the sources of the funding prior to the drafting of the policy.