There are two overarching goals: 1) Identify the various stakeholders involved in a particular polic ...

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There are two overarching goals: 1) Identify the various stakeholders involved in a particular policy/problem and 2) visually describe the types of relationships that said actors have with one another and in relation to the policy/problem. To accomplish this, it is imperative that you utilize symbols to denote the types of relationships and have an accompanying key/legend; not having this will impact the grade, because the map is otherwise unintelligible. Secondly, as mentioned in class, it is much easier and preferable that everyone start with a specific policy at the center of the map (there is just more to say and the relationships are easier to trace; this will help with the final exam and take less time). That said, however, if someone decides to start with a policy problem instead, that is also fine but will require more contextualization and historical background in the final--though the approach is totally fine.