Once an issue moves up on an agenda it moves to the development of alternative policy
responses—some might call them solutions—to public problems. From there, we
move to alternative policy selection; that is, the choice of policy tools we will use to
address the problem, whereupon policies are enacted. Enactment means that a law
is passed, a regulation is issued, or some other formal decision is reached to take
a particular action to solve a problem. After that decision is reached, the policy is
implemented, a process described in chapter 9. The policy is then evaluated and the
results of evaluation provide feedback to the process, where it begins anew.