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POLSC431 Final Exam - Public Policy Process
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1. Which of the following is an assumption of pluralism?
2. Which of the following is a characteristic of healthcare policy in the United States?
3. Technical understanding of the problem trumps all other issues in which model of the policy-making process?
4. What issues are captured by the term 'market failure'?
5. Concerns for issues such as bargaining among key players in a 'policy game' and their individual beliefs, values and interests are characteristics of which model of the policy-making process?
6. Which of the following refers to an individual who does not contribute to or participate in a group, but nonetheless benefits from the existence and activities of the group?
7. According to Dr. Wayne Hayes, what is a critique common to both the rational-scientific and institutional approaches to public-policy making?
8. Why was wetlands management not considered a 'problem' for the governmental agenda until the 1970s?
9. Which model of the policy-making process seeks to account for timing and problem framing?
10. The frequent use of covert military operations overseas to achieve U.S. foreign policy objectives might be the result of which of the following?
11. What was Woodrow Wilson's main contention with regard to government bureaucracy?
12. According to C. Wright Mills and Floyd Hunter's power elite theory, what is the general outcome of the policy process in the United States?
13. Which of the following is true with regard to state and local governments?
14. Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security are examples of what form of government spending?
15. According to Joseph Horn of the Texas Public Policy Program, what is a major source of poor K–12 education in Texas?
16. With regard to California's climate change and transportation policy, at what stage of the policy process was the California Air Resources Board when the Public Policy Institute of California released its 'Driving Change' report?
17. According to the Manhattan Public Policy Institute, what is the impact of incarcerating an increasing number of drug dealers?
18. Which of the following is a limit of monetary policy?
19. Which of the following was not a key feature of 'The Federalist Papers'?
20. Which of the following is an important distinction between federal and state budgets.
21. What issues are captured by the concept of the 'two-level game?'
22. Which of the following describes the role of incrementalism in the budgetary process?
23. The development of effective and acceptable courses of action for addressing what has been placed on the policy agenda is known as which of the following?
24. Which federal organization might be described as 'the nerve center of the budgetary process'?
25. What might be an example of a market failure with regard to AIDS as a public health issue?

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