Assignment: Policy Outcomes (5.5 page paper)
1. Construct constitutive and operational definitions for any three (3) of the following actions and outcome variables:
Program expenditure
Equality of educational opportunity
Personnel turnover
National security
Health services
Work incentives
Quality of life
Pollution
Satisfaction with municipal services
Energy consumption
Income distribution
Rapport with clients
2. Identify three (3) policy problems listed below and determine an appropriate indicator or index that would help determine whether each of the identified problems are being solved through government action. Justify your position on each.
Work alienation
School dropouts
Crime
Poverty
Energy crisis
Fiscal crisis
Inflation
Racial discrimination
3. Construct valid rebuttals to the following argument using at least four (4) threats to validity: (B) The greater the cost of an alternative, the less likely it is that the alternative will be pursued. (W) The enforcement of the maximum speed limit of 55 mph increases the costs of exceeding the speed limit. (I) The mileage death rate fell from 4.3 to 3.6 deaths per 100 million miles after the implementation of the 55-mph speed limit. (C) The 55-mph speed limit (National Speed Law of 1973) has been definitely successful in saving lives.
4. Include at least two (2) peer-reviewed references (no more than five [5] years old) from material outside the textbook to support your views.
Attachment:- Threats to the plausibility.rar