Policy proposals for programs like Medicare, Medicaid, aid to education, and so on had been around for some time, but several best-selling books in the early 1960s pulled national attention to the problems of poverty. The books, combined with the social mood developed through the civil rights movement, helped generate legislative action. More recently, a spate of spousal abuse legislation was created across the nation after O. J. Simpson was accused of murdering his ex-wife and her friend after a history of marital violence. We still haven't answered a simple question. There is no simple answer to this question.
Solutions come from everywhere.
Kingdom notes that it is very hard to pin down exactly where a policy proposal begins. C. Solutions, however, are ideas. Many of our most influential solutions begin as broad ideas. Over time, as ideas gain credence, solutions to specific problems emerge. One such idea is deregulation.