Big Mart: Cheap Goods at What Price?

Order Description
1. Complete a stakeholder analysis, and identify the many interests in this case. As you work on this, note that competing interest groups and individuals frequently present alternatives in strategically convenient and often dualistic terms. How does each group define the problem? What stories are they telling? How does this reflect their values, interests, and power?

2. Which view of power and democracy shaped your stakeholder analysis? for example what groups did you include or exclude?

3.What linking mechanism are utilized by each group? Can you identify backwards loops in the process?

4. What strategies (political means) will likely be utilized by the key players?

5. Can you create a win-win policy that would recognize the interests of all of those involved?

6. What sort of policy process, if any, is needed next? What is your role, as a policy analyst, in that process?