Affect of Policy on Public Administration

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Affect of Policy on Public Administration
The government, public and interest groups all play a part in drafting policy and laws. These different groups also depend upon and influence each other. Public policy is a procedure of selecting strategies and making decisions. Steps included in public policy making are but not limited to policy formation, getting of agenda, policy implementation, and policy adoptions. These policies are usually assessed to see the anticipated outcomes and to amend existing and potential public projects and programs (Kørnøv and Wil 195). Public administration pertains to the institutionalized principles, organizational compositions, and managerial operations that officials endorse in the quest for the implementation of policies and laws as well as enact the governments’ will (Lynn 2). Public administration deals with how to successfully pursue policy goals through layered administrative systems that consist of the nongovernment and government entities. There is no apparent difference between politics and administration in the improvement of public administration and government policy. The administrators take part in administrative proceedings by advocating legislation as much as by making policy assessments in carrying out the laws. This paper will discuss how different groups affect what laws go into effect.
The United States has over the years been a country of joiners. They have a protracted record of coming together for a universal cause or purpose, and hence it is no shock that structured groups triumph all through the political system.

The makers of the US constitution comprehended that structured interest groups would continuously try to put forth interest on policy. Thus they came up with a constitutional structure that takes into consideration the organized interests and allows them to evaluate the policy-making decisions in one way or another. Interest groups can be described as an organization or institution of people who have policy objectives and work within the political procedure to support such objectives (Child 15). They are several ways in with groups can affect policies and laws. These include lobbying the government whereby they appoint representatives to campaign on behalf of the interests of the group. Some of the activities involved in lobbying are contacting the executive branch and members of Congress to propagate information about the desirable or undesirable effects of planned legislation. Second is through taking part in election procedures by trying to sway elections to aid reelect or elect the individuals who support the same issues as theirs. The third way is through educating various publics and ensures that they have a large group of people who are willing to fight for their interests. By educating the public, they are in a position to mobilize them. Many factions depend on the participation of the people to impact policy-making decisions (MacDonald, Jason and Robert 900).
Different interest groups in the community are aimed at developing their peoples’ economic interest. Some of them do have a vast pool of membership whereas others just embody a few groups of people. One example of the interest groups who affect which laws into effect is the trade associations. They signify one section of the economy such as the defense contractors but frequently take a position on a range of policy affairs. Because most if not all of their associates have an unswerving economic motive to support the dealings of the group, economic interest groups have a propensity of being well funded (Voß and Arno 750). These groups habitually mix the help of a proficient lobbyist with further undertakings to assist their members. They may do so by sending emails, calling, meet with the policymakers and in other instances work with unions to participate in rallies aimed at the policy and lawmakers.
Another group of people who have an impact on policy and laws is the citizen action groups also identified as the public interest groups. They are usually concerned with a large sort of issues that affect the entire community such as environmental and social issues. Examples of such groups include NAACP, NRA, and NARAL (Cameron et al. 15). Similar to the trade associations, this group of people is also well funded and uses the same tactics of lobbying, litigation, and electioneering. But since they encompass a vast organization one of the tactics that they most use to support the group’s ideologies is to mobilize their members. Another emerging group of organized interest is the non-membership groups. These circles include local and state governments, colleges, and universities, and corporations. This nonmembership groups may employ or hire their lobbyist to sway and track legislation. However, even when lacking a large scale stable organization, the public frequently have a way of organizing each other into ad hoc alliances designed to impact public policy and lawmaking decisions.
A number of these interest groups usually utilize the services of previous government officers as a lobbyist since those ex-officers are capable of using their connections and personal understanding of policy-making procedures for the benefit of the groups their stand for. Despite the fact that most of the lobbyist is expected to fight for the interest of what would best suit the entire nation they often seek policies that produce the most benefits for the groups that they represent regardless of the adverse outcome it may have on others.
Works Cited
Cameron, Charles M., et al. “From Genteel Pluralism to Hyper-Pluralism: Interest Groups and Supreme Court Nominations, 1930-2017.” (2017).
Child, John. “Organizational structure, environment and performance: The role of strategic choice.” sociology 6.1 (1972): 1-22.
Kørnøv, Lone, and Wil AH Thissen. “Rationality in decision-and policy-making: implications for strategic environmental assessment.” Impact assessment and project appraisal 18.3 (2000): 191-200.
Lynn Jr, Laurence E. Public management: Old and new. Routledge, 2006.MacDonald, Jason A., and Robert J. McGrath. “Retrospective congressional oversight and the dynamics of legislative influence over the bureaucracy.” Legislative Studies Quarterly41.4 (2016): 899-934.
Voß, Jan-Peter, and Arno Simons. “Instrument constituencies and the supply side of policy innovation: the social life of emissions trading.” Environmental Politics 23.5 (2014): 735-754.