Social Policy Test Bank
Course Introduction
Social Policy examines the ways in which governments, institutions, and societies address issues related to welfare, well-being, and social justice. This course explores the development, implementation, and impact of policies aimed at tackling social problems such as poverty, inequality, health care, education, housing, and unemployment. Students will analyze different approaches to policy-making, compare international models, and critically evaluate the effectiveness of various strategies in promoting social inclusion and protecting vulnerable groups. Through case studies and theoretical frameworks, the course equips students with the tools to assess current policies and consider innovative solutions to contemporary social challenges.
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Understanding Public Policy 14th Edition by Thomas
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Chapter 1: Policy Analysis
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Q1) According to the text, functions and priorities.
A) policy advocacy
B) government spending
C) regulatory activity
D) policy analysis
Answer: B
Q2) Policy analysis can be used to put an end to differences in values.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) The most expensive undertaking of the federal government is
A) education.
B) national defense.
C) Social Security and Medicare.
D) interest on the national debt.
Answer: C
Q4) Gross Domestic Product is a common measure indicating a government's size.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 2: Models of Politics
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Q1) "Maximum social gain" is most associated with the A) institutional model.
B) rational model.
C) elite model.
D) group model.
Answer: B
Q2) The elite model presupposes a small group of leaders who are defined primarily by their inherited wealth.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) The institutional model focuses on governmental structures.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q4) The latent group of Americans is composed of those who chose not to vote.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 3: The Policymaking Process
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Q1) The process of policy evaluation is under the sole supervision of the judiciary branch.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) "Proximate policymakers" include
A) the White House staff.
B) the mass media.
C) corporations.
D) ambassadors.
Answer: A
Q3) The relationship between members of Congress and interest groups is generally antagonistic.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q4) The media play a very active role in the policy implementation.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 4: Policy Evaluation
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Q1) Nontarget groups are those that are not considered when analyzing the benefits and costs of a policy.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Comparisons between jurisdictions can be addressed by pre- and post-program comparisons.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which of the following research designs is considered "most common"?
A) before and after
B) with versus without
C) controlled group
D) experimental group
Q4) The agency responsible for making sure that tax dollars are spent honestly and wisely is the
A) Office of Management and Budget.
B) General Accountability Office.
C) Congressional Budget Office.
D) Council of Economic Advisors.
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Chapter 5: Federalism and State Policies
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Q1) The federal model that dominated from the writing of the Constitution to the Civil War was
A) dual federalism.
B) state-centered federalism.
C) cooperative-mandated federalism.
D) new federalism.
Q2) A framework whereby the state, national, and local governments all share responsibility for public policy is
A) centralized federalism.
B) new federalism.
C) cooperative federalism.
D) shared federalism.
Q3) Rent seeking is focused on state governments.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Conservatives would prefer state-centered federalism to centralized federalism.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 6: Criminal Justice
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Q1) The social-heterogeneity explanation of crime points to A) capitalistic exploitation and poverty.
B) the multiethnic, multiracial nature of America.
C) an inherited genetic propensity for crime.
D) the lure of excitement and "action" on the streets.
Q2) Overall drug use in the United States today appears to be decades ago.Since the mid-1990s, drug use has .
A) higher; increased
Than two or three
B) lower; increased
C) higher; remained unchanged
D) lower; decreased
Q3) The cases of Gideon v.Wainwright and Escobedo v.Illinois both deal with A) the right to own a firearm.
B) the right to legal counsel.
C) the right to medicinal marijuana.
D) the Fourth Amendment guarantee against unreasonable searches and seizures.
Q4) The goal of deterrence is rehabilitation of criminals.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 7: Health and Welfare
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Q1) Currently, there are about six workers for every retiree.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The poverty level in the U.S.runs at about
A) 4 to 7 percent.
B) 8 to 11 percent.
C) 12 to 15 percent.
D) 16 to 19 percent.
Q3) Most of the major entitlement programs in the United States were established under the leadership of president
A) Kennedy and Johnson.
B) Carter and Reagan.
C) Clinton and George H.W. Bush.
D) Franklin Roosevelt and Johnson.
Q4) Which of these is NOT true of the Earned Income Tax Credit?
A) means-tested
B) for workers and their families
C) automatically issues a refund to those who qualify
D) is considered a negative income tax.
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Chapter 8: Health Care
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Q1) Combined, Medicare and Medicaid provide health insurance to one-quarter of the U.S.population.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The United States compares well to other advanced developed nations in which of these?
A) life expectancy
B) infant death rates
C) health care costs
D) access to health care
Q3) The goal of health insurance exchanges is to A) increase coverage under Medicaid.
B) manage health insurance costs and provisions.
C) provide state-run health care clinics.
D) expand Medicare.
Q4) The traditional approach to health care policy has followed the public choice model. A)True
B)False
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Chapter 9: Education
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Q1) In, the Supreme Court upheld bus transportation for parochial School children at public expense on the grounds that the "wall of separation between church and state does not prohibit the state from adopting a general program which helps all children."
A) Engle v. Vitale
B) Everson v. Board of Education
C) Wallace v. Jaffree
D) Reynolds v. U.S.
Q2) The clauses in the Constitution which guarantee freedom of religion include
A) the "necessary and proper" and "free exercise" clauses.
B) the "necessary and proper" and "no establishment" clauses.
C) the "free exercise" and "equal protection" clauses.
D) the "free exercise" and "no establishment" clauses.
Q3) In 2004, the National Center for Education Statistics found that the best in science and math among eighth graders.
A) Sweden
B) the Netherlands
C) Singapore
D) the United States
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Chapter 10: Economic Policy
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Q1) The 2009 stimulus package differed from traditional Republican economic stimulus efforts in being primarily composed of A) tax cuts.
B) higher export tariffs.
C) spending increases.
D) public works projects.
Q2) The view that the market is self-adjusting and should be left alone by the government Is associated with A) Keynesian
B) classical C) supply-side D) group
Q3) The government takes about Of the GDP, but we (as a nation) still owe the Equivalent of
A) 25 percent; $45,000
B) 20 percent; $25,000
C) 15 percent; $20,000
D) 10 percent; $15,000 For every person in the U.S.
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Chapter 11: Tax Policy
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Q1) A national sales tax is likely to be
A) regressive.
B) proportional.
C) progressive.
D) subjective.
Q2) A flat tax is also
A) an excise tax.
B) proportional.
C) regressive.
D) progressive
Q3) Maximum income tax rates
A) went up during the Reagan administration.
B) went up during the Kennedy administration.
C) went down during the George H. W. Bush administration.
D) went up during the Clinton administration.
Q4) Since different kinds of income are taxed at different rates, our system is not universal.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 12: International Trade and Immigration
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Q1) Prior to World War II, tariffs were set at rates that benefited
A) U.S. consumers.
B) foreign producers.
C) carriers.
D) U.S. manufacturers.
Q2) Immigrants currently make up about 5 percent of the U.S.population.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The DREAM Act is intended to benefit
A) illegal immigrant workers.
B) illegal immigrant minors.
C) political refugees.
D) refugees displaced by natural disasters.
Q4) The U.S.currently exports more - measured in dollars - than it imports.
A)True
B)False
Q5) The Free Trade Area of the Americas has not been put in place largely because of concerns raised by South American countries.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 13: Energy and the Environment
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Q1) The Environmental Protection Agency was created to reorganize the federal bureaucracy to consolidate responsibility for all of the following except
A) water pollution.
B) air pollution.
C) solid-waste management.
D) energy efficiency.
Q2) It is accurate to state that
A) water is cleaner today than it was twenty-five years ago.
B) air is dirtier than it was twenty-five years ago.
C) the air is dirtier but water is cleaner than it was twenty-five years ago.
D) both the air and water are dirtier today than twenty-five years ago.
Q3) In the cap and trade program, industries would trade
A) emission allowances.
B) tax penalties.
C) facilities.
D) labor forces
Q4) The Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 focused on carbon dioxide emissions.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 14: Civil Rights
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Q1) The Supreme Court has generally refused to adjudicated cases involving desegregation in public schools.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Plessy v.Ferguson effectively halted full implementation of the Fourteenth Amendment for seventy years.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Supporters of affirmative action believe that
A) we should be a color-blind society.
B) we should take race into consideration for admission to university.
C) the Fourteenth Amendment requires only equality of opportunity.
D) there is no remedy for past discrimination.
Q4) The most difficult part of proving sexual harassment cases has been
A) defining exactly what is a "tangible act" of sexual harassment.
B) defining what is a "hostile environment."
C) dealing with the embarrassment involved.
D) reconciling it with the mandates of the ERA.
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Chapter 15: Defense Policy
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Q1) Since the fall of the Soviet Union, which of the following countries has not joined NATO?
A) Estonia
B) Latvia
C) Albania
D) Ukraine
Q2) The most important provision of the START II Treaty
A) called for a 50 percent reduction in SLBMs.
B) provided for the elimination of all land-based MIRV missiles.
C) called for a prohibition of all nuclear weapons in space.
D) called for an elimination of MAD capability.
Q3) The United States pursued Al Qaeda in Afghanistan in Operation
A) Enduring Freedom.
B) Rolling Thunder.
C) Shock and Awe.
D) Desert Storm.
Q4) The U.S.was a major signatory of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 16: Homeland Security
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Q1) In response to 9/11, the United States created
A) the Coast Guard.
B) the Department of Counter Terrorism and Border Security.
C) the Department of Homeland Security.
D) the Department of Counter Terrorism and Border Security
Q2) Deterrence does not work against terrorists because
A) we do not have credible countermeasures.
B) they are willing to bring death and destruction upon themselves and their people.
C) we have adequate countermeasures, but we lack the ability to adequately communicate that fact to potential adversaries.
D) our counter sanctions have not been swift, certain, and severe.
Q3) Perhaps the greatest problem confronting U.S.intelligence is
A) an unwieldy large work force in all of the agencies combined.
B) an unwillingness of the various intelligence agencies to work cooperatively together.
C) a lack of linguists who speak Farsi.
D) an inability to control the Internet.
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