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Sharing is Caring

Capitalization

 Do Not Capitalize

 Civil Rights movement  Environmental Justice

movement

 Consultant  Country

 Do Capitalize

 Congress  Congressional  House  Senate  NY State Health

Department

Spellchecker isn’t perfect

 Number of pubic figures  Command an control  Companies may not have bee advocating  Professional foresters were trained in silyiculture.

Acronyms

 Spell out first, use acronym subsequently

 The Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC)  Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA),  Rest of paper– CCC or SDWA

 Politicians (party-2 letter acronym, all caps)

 Al Gore (D-TN)  Henry Waxman (D-CA)

Introduction

 Description of Client, what is the big environmental goals, and policy

positions/preferences

 Description of opposing interest(s) and their policy preferences  Quality of research, quotes, mission statement about preferences  Sense of scope of challenge

Understanding/Application of Downs' Theory

 Where it is on issue attention cycle?  How salient is the issue to the public? What is the high and low estimate

for how important the issue is to the public?

 Application of Downs' Cycle Theory/Implication of salience  Quality/creativity of research- polls, newspaper, etc

Application of Kingdon Model

 Problem stream -use of indicators/focusing groups to show magnitude of

issue

 Policy Stream - identification of alternatives, analysis of political and

technical feasibility

 Political stream- how open is the political window, implication for which

policies can or can't go

 Reasonable analysis of best/worse case what could reasonably be

expected to pass

 Quality and creativity of research

Stone Issue Framing

 Empirical- “demonstrate the mechanism by which one set of people brings

about harms to another set”

 Moral- “they blame one set of people for causing the suffering of others”  Analysis of use of symbols and numbers  Analytical approach- how to use Stone's ideas to frame-

villain/negligence/stupidity

 Opposing side -

 3 Strengths of paper  3 things they could do to improve the paper