Question 1: A _______ is an economic justification for government involvement in a policy problem.
a. policy impact
b. market failure
c. policy subsystem
d. referendum
Question 2: ________refers to the processes by which government structures and authority are established and maintained.
a. Separation of Powers
b. Federalism
c. Policy analysis
d. Politics
Question 3: The formation of the __________ caused one of the largest federal reorganizations in history.
a. Department of Environmental Protection
b. Department of Education
c.Department of Health and Human Services
d. Department of Homeland Security
Question 4: There has been increased interest in recent history for _________ the transfer of more authority to state government.
a. decentralization
b. deregulation
c. federalism
d. mandates
Question 5: The first step in the policy process model is typically:
a. policy evaluation
b. agenda setting
c. policy implementation
d. policy formulation
Question 6: Which of the following is considered a redistributive policy?
a. Pell grant problems
b. workp1ace safety regulations
c. Social Security
d. crib safety regulations
Question 7: What is the president's major forum for agenda setting and announcing the coming year's priorities?
a. the State of the Union Address
b. the weekly breakfast with congressional leaders
c. cabinet speeches and briefings
d. daily news briefings
Question 8: When policymakers want to take a population's thoughts about a policy into consideration, they take part in a:
a. democratic political process.
b. rational analysis
c. rational choice.
d. value critical approach.
Question 9: Which of the following policy analysis criteria is used if the acceptability of a particular alternative to interest groups, the general public, or politicians is a concern?
a. political effectiveness
b. efficiency
c. equity
d. political feasibility
Question 10: ________________ tools encourage the target population to participate in and find out about a policy issues
a. Learning
b. Capacity-building
c. Hortatory
d. Authority
Question 11: ____ is probably the government's best known tool in public policy.
a. Charging fees
b. Spending money
c. Education
d. Regulating
Question 12: Which of the following criteria for evaluating public policies deals most explicitly with whether the program achieves its goals or not?
a. equity
b. efficiency
c. effectiveness
d. equality
Question 13: __________ requires knowledge of who the major actors are in the policy subsystem and how much they may support a particular alternative.
a. Program evaluation
b. Political feasibility analysis
c. Risk assessment
d. Cost-benefit analysis
Question 14: Which government office is in charge of monitoring how other agencies conduct cost-benefit analyses?
a. Office of Cost Efficiency
b. Office of Management and Budget
c. Council of Economic Advisors
d. Council of Accountability
Question 15: Concern about the reaction of interest groups to a proposed policy alternative is addressed by assessing:
a. social effectiveness.
b. administrative feasibility.
c. political feasibility .
d. technical efficiency.
Question 16: Which of the following institutions is responsible for initiating the budget process?
a. Department of the Treasury
b. Federal Reserve Board
c. Congress
d. presidency
Question 17: Sales tax can be problematic because of which of the following criteria for evaluating tax policy?
a. distributive effects
b. buoyancy
c. visibility
d. collect ability
Question 18: ________________ is one way to use policy to lower inflation.
a. Increasing income taxes
b. Decreasing interest rates
c. Standardizing interest rates
d. Standardizing income taxes
Question 19: In Dye, learning about the consequences of public policy is often referred to as
a. policy advocacy
b. policy evaluation.
c. policy analysis .
d. policy description.
Question 20: In Dye, studying the consequences of public policy decisions is referred to as
a. agenda setting
b. policy advocacy
c. policy evaluation
d. policy analysis
Question 21: In Dye, one problem that researchers have in their attempt to find solutions for public problems is
a. an inability to quantify data.
b. a lack of understanding of the scientific method.
c. a disagreement about what the problems are.
d. the lack of understanding of the social and economic environment.
Question 22: The most serious reservation about policy analysis is the inability to make accurate predictions because of
a. lack of accurate data.
b. the complexity of social problems and human behavior.
c. value conflicts among researchers.
d. the Hawthorne effect.
Question 23: In Dye, which of the following is not part of the policy process?
a. agenda setting
b. policy evaluation
c. problem identification
d. policy input
Question 24: In Dye, group theory views public policy as
a. the balance that is achieved between competing interests.
b. the desires of the elites.
c. the continuation of past policies.
d. the most cost effective alternative.
Question 25: In Dye. public choice theory,
a. views individuals as reacting very differently in politics than in the marketplace.
b. does not agree with the Lockean social contract view as 10the origin of government.
c. helps explain why political particles and candidates do not like to offer clear policy alternatives.
d. does not examine the economic cost of externalities.