module 5

Use Sustainable Infrastructure & Environment in Durham County in NC for your entire response

1. In two sentences, define policy adoption and state one implication for why adoption alone does not guarantee outcomes.
2. Explain how budgeting functions as a policy tool and name one budgeting-related constraint (i.e., timing, revenue limits, competing priorities, earmarks, compliance burden).
3. In one sentence, identify one federal constraint relevant to your issue (e.g., eligibility rules, match/maintenance-of-effort, reporting requirements, mandates/preemption, allowable uses) and explain how it shapes state/local discretion in a few sentences.
4. In three to four sentences, define Policy Feedback Theory (PFT).
5. In two sentences, apply PFT to your issue by identifying one resource effect and one interpretive effect that an existing policy (or policy mix) could generate.
6. In three to four sentences, identify one administrative capacity constraint (e.g., staffing, expertise, authority, data systems, coordination, funding, legitimacy) and explain how it could alter implementation performance or social equity of outcomes.

Completion standard: must address each element, remain within the sentence limit, and use concepts consistently with the readings. (attached below)