Five Steps of Policy Making Process

Step 4: Implementation

translating a decision into concrete action

Step 1: Agenda setting

Getting a problem on the list of subjects to which policymakers are paying serious attention

Step 5: Evaluation

assessing those actions for their consistency with a policy's goals

Step 3: Decision making

choosing from among the possible alternatives, you choose which approach government will take to address the problem

Step 2: Alternative formulation

devising the possible solutions to the problem