Librería Samer Atenea
Kálamo Books
Librería Elías (Asturias)
Librería Kolima (Madrid)
Librería Proteo (Málaga)
In posing the question, 'What was the effect of policy entrepreneurs’ use of a scenario on federal efforts to clean up the Gulf of Mexico’s dead zone?' I explain the momentum that leads to and sustains the theoretical phenomena of punctuated equilibrium.After establishing that the policy process in this case was measurable as a statistically significant case of punctuated equilibrium, I defined a scenario as an organized form of discourse with a plot with three parts: a beginning, a middle, and an end. To analyze the policy process, I plotted a narrative.The narrative placed the policy story in the context of the dynamic theory of punctuated equilibrium and addressed the nuances of scenario used in the policy process. In using a policy story to show how scenario usage hastens change, I found scenario usage and punctuated equilibrium united in a cause-and-effect relationship.
