CIV.27

Mayor's Agenda

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20 Minutes

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Description

Description Congratulations! You’re the new mayor, and the city is counting on you! From pollution and traffic congestion to competing community needs, every day brings new challenges. Explore the city, listen to citizens, investigate local issues, and work with council members to decide which policies to put into action. But being mayor isn’t just about making decisions. You’ll need to manage public funds, consider different points of view, and evaluate whether your policies are working. As new challenges arise, you may even have to face legal questions about your decisions. Can you balance the budget, earn citizens’ trust, and guide your city toward a better future before the next election?

Vocabulary Words

Election

Public Opinion

Debate

Issue

Interest Groups

Public Policy

Instructions

Play through this interactive game to learn about Public Policy Process. Suitable for Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8.

Main Concepts

Citizens can influence the public policy process by voting, contacting officials, attending meetings, joining advocacy groups, and participating in civic action.

Public policy may change over time as public opinion, political leadership, court rulings, and new evidence reshape priorities.

Public policies can be evaluated to determine whether they are effective, fair, efficient, and consistent with public goals.

Implementation is the stage in which government agencies and officials put policy decisions into practice.

Public policy debates often involve tradeoffs because different options can produce different costs, benefits, and consequences.

Courts influence public policy by interpreting laws and constitutional principles in cases that affect how policies operate.

Executive leaders and agencies influence public policy by proposing plans, enforcing laws, creating rules, and administering programs.

Legislatures develop public policy by proposing, debating, revising, and passing laws.

Public policy is a course of government action designed to address a public problem or achieve a public goal.

The public policy process often begins when individuals, groups, media, or officials identify an issue as needing government attention.

Agenda setting occurs when certain problems gain enough public and political attention to become priorities for government action.

Discussion Questions

Before the Game

How can citizens influence policy? What is a mayor’s role?

After the Game

How is social media used to understand interest groups? Why are debates important before implementing policy?

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