Policy Implementation in a Vacuum: How Ambiguous Federal Directives Reshape Public Policy Through Private Action

• In Event: Lightning Talk: Actors and Ideas in the Policy Process

Brief Overview

This project examines how federal policy ambiguity during USRAP freezes led to the creation of the Sponsor Circle Program, showing how unclear directives shifted discretion to private actors and enabled new models of refugee resettlement.

Author

• Aubrey Leigh Grant, George Mason University