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PAF 101—MODULE 5 GRADE SHEET


 * BASED ON CHAPTERS 9, 10, & 11**

Name here: Societal Category: Group #: __MAXIMUM__ __YOUR__ __EXERCISE__ __POINTS__ __SCORE__ __COMMENTS__

9.1 8

__9.2 15__

9.3 30

__9.4 8__

10.1 4

__10.2 4__

10.3 12

__10.4 3__

11.1 40

__11.2 6__

__Subtotal for Paper__ 130

__Points Deducted:__ __Writing__ _ __Organization__ _ __Participation__ _ __Skills Assessment__ _

Total Points Deducted

Extra Credit Points: Competition _ Speakers _ Extra Com. Svc. _

__Total Extra Credit Points__ __ = = TOTAL GRADE __Spring 2012 **PAF 101 EXERCISES - MODULE FIVE**__ __**BASED ON CHAPTERS 9, 10, & 11**__
 * MODULE FIVE** 130 __#___

__Consider the Formatting & Grammar Guidelines, under the Module tab on the course website, to be part of the directions for this and all modules.**__

__Exercise 9.1: Describing the Policy to be Implemented__ __Your Total Score:_____ (Maximum: 8 points)__

__A. Briefly describe the public policy you want to implement. Be clear about which level of government -- local, state, or federal -- will implement your policy. You can choose to analyze any policy at any level. (2 points)__ __Part A score:_____


 * **Describe the public policy here, including the geographic location where it will be implemented:** Water pollution


 * **State the level of government that will implement the policy here:** State

B. Describe what legislative actions including the specific body, if any, are required to implement the proposed policy. If none are required, explain why. (2 points) Part B score:_
 * **Describe the legislative actions required here:** The legislative actions required would be to ban the dumping of certain mixtures in water, becuase the mixture would harm the animal life.

C. Describe what administrative actions including the specific agency, if any, are required to implement the proposed policy. If none are required, explain why. (2 points) Part C score: _
 * **Describe the administrative actions required here:** The administrative actions would be to have surveillance cameras around water sources where animals dwell beneath the surface. The agency that would deal with this would be the DEA.

D. Describe any actions that are required to provide funding for your policy. If none are required, explain why. (2 points) Part D score: _
 * **Describe the actions required for funding here:** The funding required would be to raise taxes or add a new tax and tell house owners what is going on for the raise in tax value.

Exercise 9.2: Identifying Players Your Total Score:_ (Maximum: 15 points)

List five players that have the most influence on your policy by filling out the chart below. Briefly justify each selection, using a source for each justification. Do not use an individual player if they are a part of a larger group, such as the Senate or the House of Representatives. Up to 3 points will be deducted for each obvious player omitted.


 * **PLAYER AND TITLE** || **JUSTIFICATION** ||
 * **1.)Sarah Drucker** || Water polution, would do harm to a lot of marine life. ||
 * **2.)Fisherman** || With clean water, are able to fish without harming human life ||
 * **3.)William H. Flank** || Town Environmentalists ||
 * **4.)Con Ed** || Distributing electrical energy, use of water to cool off the electrical units ||
 * **5.)Fire Department** || Use of water to put out a fire and a high risk of run-off ||

Exercise 9.3: Estimating Issue Position, Power, and Priority for Each Player Your Total Score:_ (Maximum: 30 points)

Estimate and provide justification for the issue position, power, and priority for each player listed in Exercise 9.2. Each of the 15 reasonable and well-justified estimates is worth 2 points. At least one of the 15 justifications must be quoted from a player, expert, or stakeholder you interviewed during the course or //you will lose 10 points//. Player 1 score:_ (leave blank for the grader)
 * **PLAYER 1 -** || **Name and Title: Sarah Drucker, Marine Vert. Biologist** ||
 * **Issue Position:2** || **Justification: Her position is fairly strong, because she has knowledge about pollution seeing as how she is a marine vert. biologist. Seeing at how she is knowledgeable in this matter she will be able to fix the problem and help go in the right path.** ||
 * **Power:3** || **Justification: She has little power, because as an individual the people of true power in the town have the right to make the decision to follow her judgement call or do something completely different.** ||
 * **Priority:3** || **Justification: Her priority is very low, because she is an individual in terms of problems. This is because if she notes a problem then the people might not want to believe her, because she is just an individual and not a member of an organization.** ||

Player 2 score:_ (leave blank for the grader)
 * **PLAYER 2 -** || **Name and Title: Fisherman, provider of food for people** ||
 * **Issue Position:3** || **Justification: The contaminated water will limit the amount of fish that are able to be caught, thus reducing the amount of fish on the market.** ||
 * **Power:2** || **Justification: The pollution in the water, limits what they are able to fish. This is due to the change in the water and the affects that the pollutants have on the fish.** ||
 * **Priority:3** || **Justification: Their priority is pretty low, seeing as how the fish would be able to come from a different place.** ||

Player 3 score:_ (leave blank for the grader)
 * **PLAYER 3 -** || **Name and Title: Willism H. Flank, Environmentalist for the town** ||
 * **Issue Position:3** || **Justification: His position is that if the water is poluted it should get treated immediatley.** ||
 * **Power:3** || **Justification: The results of the contamination of the water supply could end up harming the lives of people that use the water for drinking.** ||
 * **Priority:3** || **Justification: If somethign goes wrong or needs to be changed it is one of the first things to get modified.** ||

Player 4 score:_ (leave blank for the grader)
 * **PLAYER 4 -** || **Name and Title: Con Ed, electric company** ||
 * **Issue Position:-2** || **Justification: They don't really need water, because the water only conducted electricity.** ||
 * **Power:5** || **Justification:** ||
 * **Priority:3** || **Justification: There is no true priority for the water to get treated.** ||

Player 5 score:_ (leave blank for the grader)
 * **PLAYER 5 -** || **Name and Title: Jan, Fire Department** ||
 * **Issue Position:2** || **Justification: Use of water to put out fires** ||
 * **Power:2** || **Justification: The use of chemicals in water on a fire could have side effects that would cause harm to the FF's** ||
 * **Priority:2** || **Justification: It is a high priotiy, because certain chemicals would combust on impact with water.** ||

Exercise 9.4: Completing the Prince Chart and Calculating the Probability of the Policy Being Accepted

Your Total Score:_ (Maximum: 8 points)

A. Using the policy identified in 9.1 and the information in Exercise 9.3, complete a Prince Chart in the form below. Make sure to restate your policy and recopy the numbers from 9.3 correctly. Calculate each player's Prince Score according to the directions. (6 points) Part A score:_
 * **Restate your policy here:** Water pollution
 * **Players** ||  || **Issue Position** || **x** || **Power** || **x** || **Priority** || **=** || **Prince Score** ||
 * 1 ||  || 2 || **x** || 3 || **x** || 3 || **=** || 18 ||
 * 2 ||  || 3 || **x** || 2 || **x** || 3 || **=** || 18 ||
 * 3 ||  || 3 || **x** || 3 || **x** || 3 || **=** || 27 ||
 * 4 ||  || -2 || **x** || 5 || **x** || 3 || **=** || -30 ||
 * 5 ||  || 2 || **x** || 2 || **x** || 2 || **=** || 8 ||

B. Calculate the probability of the policy being implemented following the directions on pp. 112-114 in the //Maxwell Manual//. (2 points) Part B score:_ 18+18+27-30+8 = 36-3+8 = 33+8 = 41 18+18+27+30+8 = 36+57+8 = 44+57 = 101 41/101 = 40.5%
 * **Show your calculations here: Numerator = Sum of all/ Denominator (Sum of Absolute Values)**
 * **Interpret the probability according to Figure 9.2 in the //Maxwell Manual// here:** 40% of people that vote on this policy would be for it.

Exercise 10.1: Selecting a Player for Developing a Strategy Your Total Score:_ (Maximum: 4 points)

Select a player for which to develop a strategy that aims to increase the probability of your policy being implemented. Justify your selection in terms of the player’s issue position, priority, and power.


 * **State the player you selected here:** William H. Flank
 * **Justify your selection here:** 4, 3, 3

Exercise 10.2: Describing a Political Strategy Your Total Score:_ (Maximum: 4 points)

Describe **one** strategy that might be pursued by the player selected in Exercise 10.1. The strategy should attempt to increase the likelihood of your policy being implemented. The strategy must be within the capabilities of the player. Do NOT use “making an argument” in any way as your strategy. Use one of the methods discussed on pp. 118-121 of the //Maxwell Manual// to formulate your strategy.


 * **Clearly state the strategy including specific actions the player might take here:** The strategy, taken by the player selected in 10.1 would be to convince other people to leave the place they are staying at better than the way that they find it.

Exercise 10.3: Assessing the Impact of the Proposed Strategy Your Total Score:_ (Maximum: 12 points)

A. Show the impact of the strategy you developed in Exercise 10.2 using the chart below. For each player, list the original issue position, power, and priority scores. Then list the new scores produced by your strategy. You will lose 3 points for incorrectly estimating the change or lack of change in the issue position, priority, and power of each player for a loss of up to 9 points. If the scores remain the same, write an "S". Part A score:_
 * Provide justification for only the players whose scores have changed. You may leave the other justification cells blank.
 * At least one justification must be based on information from one of the people you have contacted during the course or you will lose 9 points. (9 points)


 * **Player** ||  || **Original Scores** || **New Scores** || **Justification** ||
 * **Player 1 - Name:**
 * Sarah Drucker** || **Issue Position:** || 2 || 3 || The position is more neutral on the positive side, with the power being not as great, seeing that this person is only an individual. ||
 * ^  || **Power:** || 3 || 2 ||^   ||
 * ^  || **Priority:** || 3 || S ||^   ||
 * **Player 2 – Name:**
 * Fisherman** || **Issue Position:** || 3 || S || The power is more neutral, because the fisherman are just a group of people that collect food for the general public. ||
 * ^  || **Power:** || 2 || 3 ||^   ||
 * ^  || **Priority:** || 3 || S ||^   ||
 * **Player 3 – Name:**
 * William H. Flank** || **Issue Position:** || 3 || S ||  ||
 * ^  || **Power:** || 3 || S ||^   ||
 * ^  || **Priority:** || 3 || S ||^   ||
 * **Player 4 – Name:**
 * Con Ed** || **Issue Position:** || -2 || S ||  ||
 * ^  || **Power:** || 5 || S ||^   ||
 * ^  || **Priority:** || 3 || S ||^   ||
 * **Player 5 – Name:**
 * Jan** || **Issue Position:** || 2 || S ||  ||
 * ^  || **Power:** || 2 || S ||^   ||
 * ^  || **Priority:** || 2 || S ||^   ||

B. Calculate the new probability of the policy being implemented and describe and assess the overall impact and success of your strategy. (3 points) Part B score:_ 18+27+27-30+8 = 45-3+8 = 42+8 = 50 18+27+27+30+8 = 45+57+8 = 53+57 = 110 50/110 = 45.5%
 * **Show your calculations here:**
 * **Describe and assess the overall impact here:** The overall impact isn't that much of a change to the impact of the decision, because the percentage is still below 50%, thus it wouldn't get passed.

Exercise 10.4: Making a Difference Your Total Score:_ (Maximum: 3 points)

Find a person in //How You Can Help// whom you would most likely aspire to be like at some point in your life.


 * **Write the person you have chosen here and include a direct quote from //How You Can Help// that describes something they have done:** Greg Santone, Owner of Rocky's deli, Millwood
 * **Write the first reason why you have this aspiration here:** He has been volunteering with the fire department for a long time know. He is also the 1st assistant chief for the department.
 * **Write the second reason why you have this aspiration here:**
 * **Write the third reason why you have this aspiration here:**

Exercise 11.1 Policy Memorandum Based on What You Have Learned this Semester Your Total Score:_ (Maximum: 40 points) Write a policy memo of no more than 350 words to a government official that reflects your latest thinking about the policy proposal process and demonstrates the concepts presented throughout the course. Your memo has to be about the policy you discussed in this module. Read the Policy Memo section of Chapter 11 and follow the guidelines closely. Every word over 350 words will result in a point deduction up to the entire 40 points for the exercise. 1. Societal problem 2. Proposed Policy 3. Benchmarks 4. Political Feasibility
 * Identify the name and office of a current elected or appointed official who is a player for your policy and write a policy memo using the following form: TO: Bob Smith President of ABC Club FROM: Your Name SUBJECT: Your policy proposal in 10 words or less
 * Write a 350 word memo with the following sub-headings:


 * In parentheses at the end of the memo, provide the word count of the text of the memo. To obtain this, highlight the text of your memo, go to the “Tools” menu, and click on “Word Count.”


 * Attach behind this exercise the receipt of completion for your Post-Test. Failure to attach the Post-Test receipt will result in a loss of 5 points from this exercise.

> To: Dr. William H. Flank Town Enviornmentalist for Town of New Castle Proposed Policy: Water Pollution and Recycling
 * **Place your memo here:**

The societal problem that I am trying to fix is that of recycling. This is because the community is doing a poor job at being able to throw items away into the proper receptacles. The proposed policy is that of being able to stop pollution into the water supply, this is so that humans and animals are able to live in a community that isn’t wrought with disaster from recycling problems to water pollution. Bothe of these problems would cause serious damage to the ecosystem that has been hard work to maintain. The political feasibility is not the best, because it may be good ideas; however the public do not agree such as Con Ed and the fire department. Con Ed, doesn’t care what happens because the water doesn’t directly affect them. The fire department does care, yet they don’t have the power to change the views of those that are around them. The benchmarks are that the people would like to survive, yet they don’t care about recycling. This in turn affects the environment in which they are living because the problems of recycling would in turn cause water pollution, which would then force problems to arise from human beings and not mother nature.

From: Matthew Drucker

Exercise 11.2: References Your Total Score:_ (Maximum: 6 points)
 * Prepare a list of references that includes all sources for this module.
 * Follow the APA format.
 * Include all sources used in the exercises.


 * **Start References on the next line or on the next page:**