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Child Abuse Reporting And Education Laws: Effective Incentives For Policy Actor Change, Joel David Vallett
Child Abuse Reporting And Education Laws: Effective Incentives For Policy Actor Change, Joel David Vallett
Boise State University Theses and Dissertations
The policy process emphasizes various stages of policy development and implementation. Essential to the stages within the policy process are the individuals who create, implement, and correct public policy. Employing three separate essays, I examine the actions of legislators, street-level bureaucrats (teachers, law enforcement, and social workers), and a policy entrepreneur in regards to child abuse prevention and education policies. These three groups of actors play a valuable role within the policy process and have various incentives which drive their actions in regards to a policy. Better understanding the incentives and actions of these groups expands the policy research and …