ssue networks will not replace the more familiar politics of iron triangles (in Washington), but will overlay the once stable political reference points with the new forces that complicate calculations and decrease predictability. He believes that issue networks wield their power due to the fact that they comprise of a large number of participants with quite various degrees of mutual commitment or of dependence on others in their environment, the participants move in and out of these networks almost constantly.
5. Issue networks at work behind the “Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act”.
An issue network is a part of the large policy system and it is comprised of both, those who from the larger community outside government and those within it, who have official decision making power. As defined by Heclo, an issue network is a shared-knowledge group having to do with some aspect of public policy. Through the issue network public policy issues tend to be refined, evidence debated, and alternative options worked out-though rarely in any controlled, well-organized way.
Issue networks in support of “Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act,” or S. 744, were vast. So
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