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The Prince System
Good public policy ideas do not become policies without sufficient political support. A method for forecasting the chances that a policy will be implemented is the Prince System.
The Prince System, named after Machiavelli's famous book, The Prince, is a technique for assessing the relative support and opposition of various individuals, groups, and organizations for a public policy decision. The Prince System requires that you do the following:
- Identify the players likely to have a direct or indirect impact on the decision.
- Determine issue position-whether each player supports, opposes, or is neutral toward the decision.
- Determine power-how effective each player is in blocking the decision, helping make it happen, or affecting the implementation of a decision.
- Determine priority-how important the decision is to each player.
- Calculate the likelihood that the policy will be implemented.
You will learn how to perform each of these steps in this chapter.
Describing the Policy to be Implemented
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