During the later years of the Obama administration, the Democratic Party controlled the presidency and Senate, while the Republican Party controlled the House of Representatives. As a result, gridlock occurred, and it was difficult for the policy-making process to enact policies to address important issues of the day such as immigration, gun control, or environmental legislation. Which policy-making theory might attribute this failure to the formal way our government is structured and the procedures for how bills become law

Group decision making theory .

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The decision-making process collectively implies that it is a group, and not an individual or group of individuals in a particular way, who decides on a certain issue, with which agreements of wills and positions must be reached that allow or facilitate arrive at a decision that benefits the entire group to a greater or lesser extent.

Therefore, situations such as the one described show an organizational error in the power structure of Congress, which prevents a decision from being reached through the appropriate channels of agreement between the Parties.

institutional theory

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