policymaking

[pah-luh-see-mayk-ing]

noun

1. the process of developing policy, especially in government.

adjective

1. relating to the process of developing policy, especially in government.

Example Sentences

What this means is that there are real possibilities for the size of a party’s majority to shrink, or grow, between election years, in ways that have profound impacts on policymaking.

From Salon

A geriatric Congress can also have demonstrable effects on the policymaking that happens on Capitol Hill.

From Salon

If we’ve learned anything since 2016, it’s about the importance of fairness, and that really means keeping those who are most impacted by violence involved in the policymaking process at every stage.

From Slate

Rather than introducing tests of physical stamina into the policymaking process, other reformers have more soundly suggested making the filibuster more majoritarian somehow—by stipulating that bills supported by a supermajority of the House can be passed by simple majorities in the Senate, for instance, or that only senators representing a majority of the population can utilize the filibuster.

From Slate

Having already lost its majority in Japan's more powerful lower house, defeat for the coalition in the upper house would critically undermine its influence over policymaking and could prompt Ishiba to quit less than a year after he was elected.

From BBC