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A policy objective that has had tremendous impact in American society is immigration policy. For example early immigration reforms have been subject to long periods of policy review and when major decisions have been reached they have not fully impacted the full breadth of the issue. Immigration policy has serves an example of incremental policy because it has changed minimally over time, and they big changes that have been made have only served as stepping stones to the expansion of immigration as time has progressed. Immigration policy has once again opened up some reform objectives, primarily centered around illegal immigration and the recent debate in Arizona with laws enacted to curb illegal immigration.
I believe Lindblom would analyze this objective primarily by a means-ends relationship. Lindblom states, "...a means-ends relationship is possible only to the extent that values are agreed upon, are reconcilable, and are stable at the margin," (Lindblom, 1950, pp. 148).Here in I believe lies the reason immigration policy has and most likely will continue along incremental progress, agreement on the mean-end relationship. This is the key and definitive issue in Arizona over Senate Bill 1070. Arizona enacted law, that at least in the legislation and voters perspective had a good means-ends relationship, but in the eyes of the rest on interest groups, legislatures, official, and public it is not, thus the policy/law rests in court for further debate, prolonging further reform on immigration.
References:
Lindblom, Charles E. (1950). The Science of Muddling Through. In McCool, Daniel C. Public Policy Theories, Models, and Concepts: An Anthology (pp. 142-157). Eaglewood Cliffs New Jersey: Prentice Hall.
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