GOVT 2306 Texas Government – Public Policy in Texas

James Anderson's "policy cycle" outlines a structured process through which policies are developed and implemented. The stages include policy formulation, where proposed solutions to identified problems are crafted; problem identification, which involves recognizing and defining issues that require governmental action; and policy evaluation, the process of assessing the effectiveness of a policy after its implementation.

Policy termination, on the other hand, while it can be an aspect of public policy review processes, is not explicitly recognized as a standard stage within Anderson's classical model of the policy cycle. The framework primarily focuses on the flow of policy from identification through evaluation, with termination being a result of evaluation rather than a central stage of the cycle itself. Thus, identifying termination as a non-stage reflects an understanding of the core framework Anderson developed.