Important terms from the blog, expanded and explained.
Net Neutrality: The term net neutrality reflects the belief that the infrastructure that enables the internet should be neutral, without discrimination toward creator, user, or content.
Policy Monopoly: an area of policy where a small group of people within Congress or an organization of government control an issue.
Government Agenda: What the government is considering or talking about in terms of policy, what could potentially be drafted into legislation.
Decision Agenda: What the government is actually deciding on or voting on at a given time.
Federal Communications Commission: a government body charged with regulating private and public communications entities, such as television broadcasters or internet providers.
Venue: a place in which an issue is being considered - such as a specific Congressional committee or organization in government.
Policy Window: When the potential to pass a piece of legislation from the government agenda onto the decision agenda exists because of the alignment of politics, policies, and problems.
Policy Entrepreneur: Any elite actor capable of influencing policy, this includes Congressman, Senators, staffers, the President, etc
Policy Community: a place where specialists in a given issue area circulate policy ideas or alternatives (Kingdon 117)
Statutory Interpretation: the Court's ability to determine how a law will be applied to a specific case, ultimately allowing the Court broad power to interpret the meaning of legislation.
Judicial Review: the process through which the Supreme Court declares a law null and void because it violates provisions of the US Constitution
National Cable and Telecommunications Association v. Brand X Internet Services: a Supreme Court case in which the Court ruled that the FCC had the ability to classify network providers as information services based on a statutory interpretation of the Telecommunications Act of 1996
