Contemporary Policy Issues
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Course Introduction
This course explores current and emerging policy challenges facing societies at local, national, and global levels. Students engage with a broad spectrum of topics such as environmental sustainability, healthcare reform, economic inequality, digital privacy, and international relations. Through critical analysis of recent policy developments and case studies, the course encourages students to evaluate the effectiveness of policy interventions, understand the complexities of the policy-making process, and consider the roles of various stakeholders in shaping outcomes. Emphasis is placed on developing informed, evidence-based perspectives to better understand and address the pressing issues that define the contemporary policy landscape.
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American Public Policy An Introduction 11th Edition by Clarke E. Cochran
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Chapter 1: Public Policy: An Introduction
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Q1) Policy analysis is concerned mainly with
A)describing all details of government programs.
B)discovery and recommendation of the best course of action.
C)describing and explaining policies and their impact.
D)problem definition or issue formation.
Answer: C
Q2) Public policy is an intentional course of action followed by a government institution or official that includes,but is not limited to making laws and is defined in terms of A)negative spillover effects
B)civil issues
C)problems of government
D)a common goal or purpose
Answer: D
Q3) Public policy is rooted in law and in the authority and coercion associated with law. A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 2: Contexts of Public Policy
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Q1) Prior to 1930,poverty was not seen as a problem,but was viewed as an inevitable social condition.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) Today ideological groups,such as liberals and conservatives,are more internally fragmented than in the past.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) Families living through the Great Recession of 2007 saw A)Their homes lose values
B)The collapse of financial institutions
C)High productivity
D)All of the above
E)A and B only
Answer: E
Q4) How has the rise of the Tea Party impacted the public policy positions of the Republican Party?
Answer: NOT ANSWER
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Chapter 3: The Economy: Changing Government-Business Relationships
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Q1) President Roosevelt's steps to address the Great Depression did NOT include
A)Economic regulations
B)Public works programs
C)Agricultural support programs
D)A space program
Answer: D
Q2) President Hoover's administration's raising income taxes and balancing the budget fixed the problems created by the Great Depression.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) What are the economic policies included in the Stimulus package? Why did President Obama push this idea rather than extending the Bush Tax Cuts?
Answer: NOT ANSWER
Q4) Government involvement in the economy supports both the prosperity goal and meeting the needs of people
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 4: Economic Issues: Taxing, Spending, and Budgeting
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Q1) Traditional Keynesian fiscal and monetary policy focuses on the supply of goods and services.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The primary source of federal revenue is
A)the corporate income tax
B)the individual income tax
C)excise taxes
D)Social Security taxes
Q3) Fragmentation of responsibility for economic policy exists at the federal level.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The Federal Reserve Board oversees the operations of banks that participate in the Federal Reserve System.It has the power to do the following except:
A)lend member banks money.
B)control the amount of money a bank has on reserve.
C)print money.
D)buy up governmental bond held by investors.
Q5) What was the purpose of TARP and has it been successful?
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Chapter 5: Energy and Environmental Policies: Policy Instability
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Q1) Why has the Keystone XL pipeline project faced difficulties in getting approval from President Obama's administration?
Q2) The U.S.Energy policy changed in 1980 under President Reagan to ________________.
A)Energy conservation
B)The belief that the U.S.had an abundance of energy supplies
C)A focus on the environment
D)A focus on "clean" energy
Q3) Prior to 1973,America had an unlimited supply of _______________.
A)Water, natural gas, and oil
B)Inexpensive imported oil
C)Domestic fossil fuels
D)Inexpensive imported oil and gas
E)C & D only
Q4) Which was not a criticism of international environmental policies like the Kyoto Protocol?
A)Restricts national sovereignty
B)Creates a detrimental economic impact
C)Championed by China as an extension of communist principles
D)Based on unverified scientific research
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Chapter 6: Crime and Criminal Justice: Dilemmas of Social Control
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Q1) The Bill of Rights was originally written
A)The French
B)Liberals and Socialists
C)To limit the national government criminal law & procedures
D)Help give women the right to vote
Q2) The death penalty in the American context is both swift and certain.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The exclusionary rule had a major exception created by the Supreme Court decision in Nix v.Williams case.It held that
A)the guilty could not be released due to a technicality
B)illegally obtained evidence was admissible if it would have been discovered legally eventually
C)searches carried out in good faith were admissible even if the warrant was later found to be technically illegal
D)evidence staged by the police was admissable even if discovered later
Q4) Discuss the pros and cons of treating juvenile defendants as adults in criminal cases.
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Chapter 7: Poverty and Social Welfare Policy
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Q1) Which of the following is NOT a primary feature of the new welfare program (PRWORA)enacted in 1996?
A)Block grant
B)Five year time limit
C)Every single mother is eligible to receive benefits
D)Welfare-to-work emphasis
Q2) Which country has the largest income gap between the rich and the poor?
A)England
B)France
C)United States
D)Germany
Q3) Social Security was originally designed as a ________________ program.
A)Welfare
B)Health insurance
C)Educational
D)Retirement
Q4) Relative definitions of poverty do not specify a particular level of material well-being,but compare the poor to other members of society.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 8: Health Care: Transformation or Continued Crisis?
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Q1) There are several reasons physicians are seeking employment by hospital and other organizations except for
A)Working conditions
B)Income
C)Research capabilities
D)Quality of life
Q2) Job lock is defined as
A)Being contractually bound to a job
B)Unable to change jobs due to the poor employment marketplace
C)Forced to remain in a job because of financial obligations
D)Forced to stay in a job because of the fear of not getting health care with new employment
Q3) The largest share of American health care spending is paid by _______.
A)the patient directly
B)private health insurance plans
C)government
D)charitable foundations
Q4) Labor and technology is a primary contributor to the high cost of medicine.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 9: Education: Conflict in Policy Direction
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Q1) The tradition of local control has been weakened due to the increase in state power over education policy.This increase in power is due to:
A)Politics
B)Funding
C)Parental demands
D)Teacher unions
Q2) Educational environments provided to students are affected by the expenditures made.Wealthy districts spend their money differently than poor districts,such as they A)Have lower student-teach ratio
B)Spend less on college preparatory electives
C)Spend less on capital improvement projects
D)All of the above
E)A & B only
Q3) "Choice" models in education reform include which of the following?
A)choice of college majors.
B)allowing students to choose vocational tracks
C)vouchers for private or parochial schools
D)all of the above
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Chapter 10: Legal and Social Equality: The Struggle against
Oppression and Bigotry
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Q1) The California Civil Rights Initiative passed in 1996 and upheld by the Supreme Court in 1997
A)supports the use of affirmative action in California colleges.
B)extended civil rights protections to homosexuals.
C)outlawed the use of race, ethnicity, and gender preferences in college admissions.
D)extended civil rights protections to the disabled.
Q2) The court case that struck down setting aside a particular percentage of federal contracts for minority-owned businesses was:
A)Wards Cove v.Atonio
B)Brown v.Board of Education
C)Adarand Constructors v.Pena
D)none of the above
Q3) Affirmative action is a series of policies or active government efforts to bring valued members of disadvantaged groups in proportion with their percentage in the general population to the workplace or educational institution.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 11: Immigration Policy: The Barely Open Door
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Q1) U.S.immigration policy was highly restrictive until the middle of the 19th Century.
A)True
B)False
Q2) What mechanism was put in place in 1996 to address the problem of employment of undocumented workers?
A)The E-Verify System
B)Green Cards
C)More immigration officers
D)National Identification cards
Q3) Public attitude toward immigration have changed since the new face of immigrants became Asians and Hispanics.
A)True
B)False
Q4) American labor unions
A)strongly support increased immigration.
B)worry about immigrants taking low wage jobs from citizens
C)believe that large numbers of immigrants depress wages of union members
D)(b) and (c)
E)none of the above
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Chapter 12: Foreign and Defense Policy: Security and Interests in a Dangerous World
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Q1) _________ consists of random,devastating violence against noncombatant populations to compel another power to change its policies.
A)Terrorism
B)Containment
C)Deterrence
D)Collective security
Q2) The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)are examples of
A)unilateralism
B)the principle of collective security
C)balance of power
D)deterrence
Q3) Deterrence as a strategy is based on
A)the merits of the policy goals
B)the justice of the respective policy goals
C)power politics
D)making the first strike
Q4) The Obama administration successfully found and killed Osama bin Laden
A)True
B)False
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Q1) Courts and legal profession view free speech as primarily protecting political discussion; other speech has been categorized and may be subject to regulation.Which of the following is NOT a speech category?
A)hate speech
B)libel and slander
C)commercial speech
D)breach of peace speech
Q2) Devotional activity that is voluntary and non-denominational may be sponsored by public schools.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which case established the right of a Sabbatarian to refuse Saturday employment as a condition for receiving unemployment benefits?
A)Cantwell v.Connecticut
B)U.S.v.Ballard
C)Engel v.Vitale
D)Sherbert v.Verner
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