Praxis II Government and Political Science

Answer: E - Policy regression is not a stage in the policymaking cycle, and is instead the idea that you dump all of your policy ideas and regress to the way things were before. It is not part of the policymaking cycle because it is the elimination of policy, not the creating of it. The cycle includes: 1) deciding something is a problem that needs solving, 2) developing the policy, 3) implementing the policy, and 4) evaluating whether or not the policy was effective.