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Fourth, your Policy Analysis assignment is due this Sunday, December 4th

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Fourth, your Policy Analysis assignment is due this Sunday, December 4th. As Canvas outlines, you must address the following key elements: 1) Description and Overview of Policy under Analysis; 2) Historical Analysis; 3) Social Analysis; 4) Economic Analysis; 5) Political Analysis; 6) Program and Policy Evaluation. You will use the same federal policy you wrote your I.D.E.A assignment on. I recommend that you reference your text for support, use existing literature and research, and apply your critical thinking abilities to complete the assignment. Please follow the APA 7th edition and the length of your paper should be 8-10 pages. Points will be deducted if you fail to follow instruction. 

Your paper should follow APA, 7th edition guidelines. Use headings and subheadings as appropriate for organizing the content of your paper. The length of the paper should be 8-10 pages NOT counting title page or references. For this assignment you will use the Popple & Leighninger Policy Analysis Framework (2015).

Delineation and Overview of Policy under Analysis 

• What is the specific policy or general policy area to be analyzed? 
• What is the nature of the problem being targeted by the policy? 
• What is the context of the policy being analyzed?

Historical Analysis 

• What policies and programs were previously developed to deal with the problem? In other words, how has this problem been dealt with in the past? 
• How has the specific policy/program under analysis developed over time? 
• What does history tell us about effective/ineffective approaches to the problem being addressed? 
• To what extent does the current policy/program incorporate the lessons of history? 

Social Analysis 

• Problem description 

Economic Analysis 

• What are the effects and/or potential effects of the policy on the functioning of the economy as a whole-output, income, inflation, unemployment, and so forth? (macroeconomics analysis) 
• What are the effects and/or potential effects of the policy on the behavior of individuals, firms, and markets – motivation to work, cost of rent, supply of commodities, etc.? (microeconomics analysis) 
• Opportunity cost; cost/benefit analysis 

Political Analysis 

• Who are the major stakeholders regarding this particular policy/program? 
• How has the policy/program been legitimized? Is this basis for legitimation still current? 
• To what extent is the policy/program an example of rational decision making, incremental change, or of change brought about by conflict? 
• What are the political aspects of the implementation of the policy/program? 

Policy/Program Evaluation 

• What are the outcomes of the policy/program in relation to the stated goals? 
• What are the unintended consequences of the policy/program? 
• Is the policy/program cost-effective?