First, a public policy problem must be identified. There are numerous problems that could be addressed by the public policy but they have yet to be identified and articulated so heir place on the public n serious problem United States for decades before it became a public policy problem that policy and the attention to, After problem is identified, potential policy solutions are Elected officials, interest groups and formulated. solutions are citizens participate in discussions and debates. Alternative compared and critiqued. Where there is consensus (or at least majority support) for one ofthe policy alternatives, it is adopted, generally through the passage of legislation. Once a policy is enacted into law, it must be implemented. The Congress delegates implementation (and many of the details associated with it to Executive Branch departments and agencies. Almost the minute a policy is in place, people will begin to evaluate the policy actually fixing the problem? Is it causing additional unintended problems? Because no policy is ever perfect, policy evaluation invariably leads to new problem identification and the process commences again. Major types of public policy Public policies in most polities are generally divided into three categories: Social Policy Economic Policy Foreign Policy Military Policy