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- Actors that have an authorized role to play in the policymaking process based on the Constitution or statute (law) are called official actors. Official actors might include elected officials or unelected bureaucrats; the key distinguishing feature is that they have the authority to make a policy decision in a particular case.
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Actors that have an authorized role to play in the policymaking process based on the Constitution or statute (law) are called official actors. Official actors might include elected officials or unelected bureaucrats; the key distinguishing feature is that they have the authority to make a policy decision in a particular case.
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ABSTRACT. In this book, I categorize participants in decision-making into two broad groups: official actors and unofficial actors. The term “official” or “unofficial” is not meant to suggest that particular participants are more “legitimate” actors in the policy process.
May 8, 2022 · This article illustrates how five different categories of actors are differently involved in the policy-making process: politicians (and policy-makers), bureaucrats, interest groups, epistemic communities, and citizens. Politicians and policy-makers.
- Marco Schito
Who are the official actors? Who are unofficial actors? Whose voices matter most? Why should we care about actors? What is an issue brief? Why do you write? What comes next? Questions for discussion; Glossary; Additional Resources
Dec 14, 2019 · In recent years, policy design has experienced a renaissance in public policy literature (Considine et al. 2014; Howlett 2014; Howlett and Lejano 2012).While theory building for the policy design process started as early as the 1980s (Howlett 2014), scholarly interest subsequently shifted away from questions of ‘designing’ towards questions of governance and globalisation (Howlett and ...
- Leonore Haelg, Sebastian Sewerin, Tobias S. Schmidt
- 2020
⇒ An official actor is someone who possesses legal authority to engage in the formulation of public policy e.g. legislature, executive and judiciary ⇒ An unofficial actor is someone who does not occupy formal public positions or political offices – this does not mean they are any less important than official actors e.g. interest groups ...
The Official Actors This chapter lays out the role that the official actors within our three branches of the federal government (Congress, the President, and the US Supreme Court) play in relationship to US environmental policymaking.1 More specifically, the US Constitution provides in Article I that Congress is the lawmaking body, in
