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11. Policy Making: Political Interactions

How policy is actually made, across foreign affairs, defense, the economy, and the social and regulatory questions that follow.

11. Policy Making: Political Interactions

Congress, the President, the Cabinet, advisers, agency bureaucrats, federal and state courts, political parties, interest groups, the media...All of these grou…

11a. Foreign Policy: What Now?

The United States exercises its foreign policy through economic aid. For example, famine relief in North Korea provides not only humanitarian assistance but al…

11b. Defense Policy

The Pentagon, one of the largest office buildings in the world, houses the Department of Defense and the different branches of the armed forces. The United Sta…

11c. Economic Policy

With the New Deal, President Franklin D. Roosevelt aimed to reverse the effects of the Great Depression through heavy government spending. The Works Progress A…

11d. Social and Regulatory Policy

Food stamps can mean the difference between getting by and going hungry. But the question of how to distribute them and other forms of welfare support has beco…