PAD 510

Week 9 Discussion 1

The Difficulties of Writing Policy. Please respond to the following:

Analyze the role ambiguity plays when there are conflicting policy goals.

Ambiguity can be defined as information, in words, pictures, or other media, is the ability to express more than one interpretation. It is generally contrasted withvagueness, in that specific and distinct interpretations are permitted (although some may not be immediately apparent), whereas with information that is vague it is difficult to form any interpretation at the desired level of specificity (Ambiguity, 2012). Beyond the different ways of thinking about goals, policy design can also reveal conflict over policy goals. Because policies and their goals are often vague when they are originally established, it is...