Policy Studies
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Course Introduction
Policy Studies explores the formulation, implementation, and evaluation of public policies across various sectors such as health, education, environment, and social welfare. The course examines the roles of government institutions, non-governmental organizations, and other stakeholders in the policy process, emphasizing analytical frameworks and methodologies used to assess policy effectiveness and impact. Students will develop critical thinking skills to analyze policy issues, understand the interplay of political, economic, and social factors in decision-making, and consider ethical implications while proposing evidence-based solutions for contemporary challenges.
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Public Policy Politics Analysis and Alternatives by Michael E. Kraft
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Chapter 1: Public Policy and Politics
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Q1) Describe the various ways that citizens can have an impact on the policy-making process.
Answer: Citizens can become educated about policies and become more knowledgeable about the issues that policies attempt to address and the proposed solutions.They can join interest groups and collectively analyze issues to advocate for desired policy solutions.They can make their views known in order to influence government officials.
Q2) The Partnership for Sustainable Communities, an interagency partnership, was created in _____.
A) 2007
B) 2009
C) 2011
D) 2013
Answer: B
Q3) The policy criterion of ______ refers to the assessment of how well a policy works relative to the cost of adopting that policy.
Answer: efficiency
Q4) ______ are organized groups of people following the logic of collective action.
Answer: Interest groups
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Chapter 2: Government Institutions and Policy Actors
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Q1) ______ is our system of government, in which the federal government shares authority with states and local governments in areas of public policy.
A) Federalism
B) Executive, legislative, and judicial branches of government
C) Policy output
D) Market failure
Answer: A
Q2) Federal ______ grants for community development activities give states and local governments an amount of money to conduct the activities with more flexibility to determine how the money is spent.
A) categorical
B) regulatory
C) block
D) stimulus
Answer: C
Q3) Discuss the role of each branch of government in policy making.
Answer: Legislative-develop and enact laws; executive-propose,implement,and enforce laws; judicial -interpret laws.
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Chapter 3: Understanding Public Policy Making
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Q1) In the rush to house victims of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) ordered nearly ______ billion worth of trailers and mobile homes.
A) 1
B) 2
C) 3
D) 4
Answer: C
Q2) Which of the following policy-making theories might include consideration of the role of prominent and outspoken celebrities such as U2's Bono, Bill Gates, and Oprah?
A) elite theory
B) group theory
C) executive theory
D) rational choice theory
Answer: A
Q3) ______ are active contributors to policy formulation.
Answer: Interest groups
Q4) One of the best known policy instruments is ______.
Answer: regulation
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Chapter 4: Policy Analysis
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Q1) Which of the following statements best illustrates the rational-comprehensive approach to decision making?
A) The government collected data about illegal immigrants (geographic location, type of employment, and how they got here) and then developed a comprehensive new policy tailored to their findings.
B) The economic crisis arose quickly, and the government implemented a bailout of automakers in order to prevent the loss of jobs.
C) Because a lot of children did not have health insurance, the government passed an expansion of the Medicaid program to cover more children.
D) After 9/11 terrorist attacks, the United States soon conducted military operations in Afghanistan to reduce the threat of terrorism.
Q2) The ______ orientation/approach to policy making often involves peer-reviewed research using controlled studies.
A) scientific B) methodological C) political
D) professional
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Chapter 5: Public Problems and Policy Alternatives
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Q1) How is the choice of policy tools determined?
Q2) What does the term policy design mean?
Q3) The ______ is essential to make sense of a problem, to see how it compares to other concerns in our personal lives or in society, and to estimate what effects a proposal or action might have.
Q4) Policy analysts might review what happened in ______, when policies for similar problems were previously enacted, in order to consider applying the same policy tool for a current situation.
Q5) Problem definition involves ______.
A) defining and measuring the scope of a societal problem.
B) political influence on how the problem is framed.
C) conducting or reviewing research that documents a societal problem.
D) all of these
Q6) Indicators of sustainability refer to _____ data that attempt to measure a community's progress toward the goal of sustainability.
A) capacity
B) quantitative
C) interview
D) estimated
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Chapter 6: Assessing Policy Alternatives
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Q1) Many individuals recently urged President Obama to reform health care by setting up a single-payer system like the Canadian system.In developing his health-care reform plan, the president ruled out that option early using the criterion of ______ because it was likely to be "dead on arrival" in Congress.
A) political feasibility
B) technical feasibility
C) effectiveness
D) equitable
Q2) The evaluative criterion of ______ is concerned with how well the policy has worked and the policy outcomes that occur.
Q3) ______ is a close relative of cost-benefit analysis.
A) Risk assessment
B) Opportunity costs
C) Risk evaluation
D) Risk management
Q4) ______, which are essentially questionnaires or interviews with individuals, designed to allow an estimate of the dollar value of the time spent stuck in traffic or the preservation of lakes or forests.
Q5) Ethical analysis is most appropriate for what kinds of issues?
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Chapter 7: Economic and Budgetary Policy
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Q1) Today, entitlement programs consume roughly ______% of the federal budget.
A) 10
B) 20
C) 60
D) 80
Q2) The name of the agency that compiles all of the statistics on employment patterns in the United States is the ______.
A) Department of the Interior
B) Wages and Employment Agency
C) Economic Policy Development Institute
D) Bureau of Labor Statistics
Q3) Tax policy is one of the areas of greatest political tension.One variable affecting policy makers' decisions about tax policy includes ______, which refer(s) to the equity issue of which subgroups of citizens are most impacted by the tax.
A) diagonal equity
B) collectability
C) distributive effects
D) expenditure effects
Q4) ______ has obvious benefits to the economy as well as to the individuals.
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Chapter 8: Health Care Policy
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Q1) In a national health insurance system, ______ is/are generally responsible for paying the cost of health care.
A) the national government
B) employers
C) private insurance companies
D) the individual patient
Q2) The Veterans Health System faces concerns related to ______.
A) poor quality of medical care and growing numbers of veterans needing care
B) rising costs of preventive care and poor quality of medical care
C) cost increases and reduced profitability
D) increased access to care among veterans and reduced costs
Q3) A centerpiece of Obama's reform plan that is popular with the general public is ______.
A) the individual mandate
B) pilot tests and demonstration projects
C) insurance reform to remove preexisting-condition exclusions
D) expanded coverage for Medicaid populations
Q4) In the United States, health care is viewed as something one has to earn, or a ______, rather than as a right to which all citizens are entitled.
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Chapter 9: Welfare and Social Security Policy
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Q1) Discuss the economic, effectiveness, equity, and political issues of President Bush's plan to privatize Social Security financing.
Q2) The Social Security Administration also administers the ______.
Q3) For 2016, the federal government placed a family of four below the poverty line if its annual income was less than ______ in the 48 contiguous states.
A) 24,300
B) 26,800
C) 30,300
D) 35,000
Q4) ______ means that those brought up in poverty learn how to be poor and work the current system to their benefit and that they choose to remain poor as adults.
Q5) Which new program, enacted in 1996, ended the Aid to Families with Dependent Children program?
A) Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
B) Federal Anti-Poverty Program
C) National Unemployment Aid Program
D) Temporary Assistance for Needy Families
Q6) The major interest group representing seniors is ______.
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Chapter 10: Education Policy
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Q1) No Child Left Behind was enacted in ______.
A) 2000
B) 2002
C) 2004
D) 2006
Q2) Today, the ______ who have Bachelor's degrees make more than ______.
A) women; men
B) men; women
C) Hispanics; Asian Americans
D) Hispanics; Whites
Q3) The issue of ______ has surfaced with regard to the financing of public education due to the fact that ______.
A) equity; poor students receive lower quality education
B) efficiency; property taxes are increasingly buoyant
C) liberty; the federal government funds public education in some states but not others
D) effectiveness; test scores are declining
Q4) Most ______ systems currently in place in the United States are limited.
Q5) College admissions are partially a ______.
Q6) The issue of ______ in public schools relates to both religion clauses.
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Chapter 11: Environmental and Energy Policy
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Q1) What is the primary (and controversial) biofuel that the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 mandated an increased use of?
A) switchgrass
B) soy-derived biodiesel
C) vegetable oils
D) corn-derived ethanol
Q2) Define the term "intergenerational equity" and explain how it relates to climate change and energy policy.
Q3) Why do many believe there is a conflict between environmental policy and economic growth?
Q4) When was the "environmental decade" of federal legislation?
A) 1960s
B) 1970s
C) 1980s
D) 1990s
Q5) The ______ level of government typically makes environmental policy, while ______ is/are heavily involved in implementing environmental policy.
Q6) What are CAFE standards? How have they changed in recent years?
Q7) Discuss the features of the Energy Policy Act of 2005.
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Chapter 12: Foreign Policy and Homeland Security
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Q1) The Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act was signed in ______.
A) 2000
B) 2004
C) 2008
D) 2012
Q2) The implementation of the ______ helped to ensure a secure and more viable Europe after WWII.
A) USA PATRIOT Act
B) United Nations
C) Salt II Treaty
D) Marshall Plan
Q3) The ______ coordinates the U.S.intelligence activities, and its work involves the correlation, evaluation, and dissemination of intelligence information.
A) Central Intelligence Agency
B) UN Security Council
C) National Security Agency
D) Federal Bureau of Investigation
Q4) The UN General Assembly consists of five permanent members: ______.
Q5) What were the goals of the Marshall Plan? Was it effective?
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Chapter 13: Politics, Analysis, and Policy Choice
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Q1) ______ cases demonstrate the dynamics of the policy-making process.
Q2) In Wisconsin, the way the state has balanced its budget led to large protests.Certain interest groups claimed that they have borne an unfair amount of the financial burden.These citizens are claiming the budget lacks ______, one of the criteria used to evaluate policies.
A) effectiveness
B) efficiency
C) equity
D) administrative feasibility
Q3) The use of ______ is enabling governments to reach out to and engage citizens to a greater extent than ever before.
Q4) The ______ of 2010 was the first major overhaul of food safety since 1938.
Q5) The ______ has led to more evaluations of public policies and programs, an important way to improve policy capacity.
A) Administrative Procedure Act
B) Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act
C) No Child Left Behind Act
D) Government Performance and Results Act of 1993
Q6) The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act was passed in ______.
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