The Girls Made It Rain

<p>In posing the question What was the effect of policy entrepreneurs' use of a scenario on federal efforts to clean up the Gulf of Mexico's dead zone? I explain the momentum that leads to and sustains the theoretical phenomena of punctuated equilibrium.</p><p></p><p>After establishing that the policy process in this case was measurable as a statistically significant case of punctuated equilibrium I defined a scenario as an organized form of discourse with a plot with three parts: a beginning a middle and an end. To analyze the policy process I plotted a narrative.</p><p></p><p>The narrative placed the policy story in the context of the dynamic theory of punctuated equilibrium and addressed the nuances of scenario used in the policy process. In using a policy story to show how scenario usage hastens change I found scenario usage and punctuated equilibrium united in a cause-and-effect relationship.</p>