The Greater Yellowstone Interagency Brucellosis Committee (GYIBC) has hired you to conduct a policy analysis of the situation today and come up with policy recommendations. You are to apply the following 5 steps as your model of analysis:
Step 1: Define the problem and determine its causes (4-5 sentences).
After defining the problem discuss your approach to defining the problem. Answer the following questions: Why did you adopt this definition? Who are the main stakeholders in the case? What are the values and interests of the stakeholders? Whose values matter. How does your personal view of power structures affect your problem definition?
Step 2: Establish Criteria to Evaluate Alternatives
For each criterion, you establish, explain why this criterion is a good one to evaluate policy alternatives in this case. Discuss how the criterion relates to major stakeholders.
Step 3: Generate Policy Alternatives (only two alternatives)
Explain how you generated the alternatives in this case? Do these alternatives eliminate the problem without favoring one group over another?
Step 4: Evaluate and Select Policy
Simply state which alternative is the best one among the two you identified in step 3. Include a table where you demonstrate the pros and cons of the two alternatives based on the criteria established in step 2. Shortly, state why the alternative you are recommending is the best among the two.
Step 5: Evaluate Politics.
Given that your recommended alternative has not been implemented yet. It is impossible to evaluate it. Thus, for the purpose of this step just state one problem you anticipate will make the evaluation of this policy difficult. Why do you think this will be a problem?