POLI 330N Week 7 Discussion: Our Struggle for Freedom, Civil Liberties Political Equality (GRADED A+)

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POLI 330N Week 7 Discussion: Our Struggle for Freedom, Civil Liberties Political Equality Initial Post Instructions Agenda setting can be a difficult task in government. Why? Who do you consid... er an important agenda setter in government? How does this participant help set the agenda? Give an example of an attempt at agenda setting in government. Was it successful? Why or why not? Consider how factors such as culture, political positions, etc. might impact your own, or the agenda setters' priorities. Use evidence (cite sources) to support your response from assigned readings or online lessons, and at least one outside scholarly source. It is believed that agenda setting in the government is difficult, and involves many different stages. Based on chapter 11 from the course book, the stages to agenda setting are called agenda setting, policy formulation, policy adoption, policy implementation, and policy evaluation(Whitman, 2020). What makes this process so hard is that a policy issue must make it through step one which is agenda setting in order to proceed at an expedient pace. How does a policy make it through step one? One Kingdom must argue the policy and the other three groups must come together and agree on the issue in order for a policy problem to make it onto the political agenda setting(Whitman, 2020). In the United States, the most important agenda setter in government is the President. The President is able to help influence and set the agenda by focusing their time and energy on a topic. This topic is talked about on local news and blogs which gets the media attention, and then gets the people talking about the issue or topic. People then form their own opinion and the issue has then found its way on the agenda. A topic that has been attempted at agenda setting in the government is the controversial topic about aborption. The law states that aborption is legal and a person can receive an aborption up to 24 weeks, anything after 24 weeks an aborption can be performed but due to medical reasons(Kelly, 2019). This topic has gone nowhere on the agenda setting because it is very controversial and takes away a women’s right to choose. This topic of aborption means something different to every woman. This topic came up on the agenda last year that they wanted women to be denied an aborption if the fetal heartbeat was detected. The fetal heartbeat is usually detected at as early as 5 1/2 weeks of gestation(Kelly, 2019). Some individuals thought this was unfair because it went against Roe vs Wade in 1973. Another argument was that women don’t find out their pregnant until further on in their pregnancy after 8 weeks of gestation. Known judges could agree to pass the law to deney a women an aborption if she is 8 weeks or more. Currently the government has not put the heartbeat ban on aborption into place. Therefore a women is still allowed to have an aborption up to 24 weeks if she decides to terminate the preganancy. Work Cited Kelly, Carolins(2019, October 29). States passed a flurry of new abortion restrictions this year. Here's where they stand. CNN politics. https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/27/politics/abortion-laws-states-roundup/index.html Whitman Cobb, W. N. (2020). Political science today (1st ed.). Washington, DC: Sage, CQ Press. [Show More]

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