POLS 342 Final Exam -Ball State University | Questions And Answers Latest {2024- 2025}
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Think Tanks... - 1) Provide policymakers and the public explanations so they can understand complex
problems
2) Substantiate and rationalize the policy positions and actions of various policy makers
3) Policymakers value their independent research and analysis as supplemental knowledge to convince
other politicians and citizens to adopt their viewpoints.
What combination of saliency and conflict provide the greatest opportunity for an issue to be placed on
the government's agenda? - High Saliency, low conflict
________ emphasizes the formal and legal aspects of government structure including the way
governments are arranged, their legal powers and their rules for decision making. - Institutional Theory
What primary policy analysis criteria would be used if a fair and just evaluation were a concern? - Equity
Policymakers often debate over whether to address the root causes of a problem or instead focus on the
problem's _______. - Proximate Causes
Examining scholarly books and journals regarding a particular problem or solution represents the use of
the ________ technique of collecting information. - Literature Review
Providing direct payments or benefits to individuals is an example of what? - Subsidizing
Food labels represent what form of government policy tool? - Education
The ______ criterion for evaluating public policy deals most explicitly with achieving goals in relationship
to costs. - Efficiency
The ______ is a measure that represents the average change in price over time of a market basket of
consumer goods and services. - Consumer Price Index (CPI)
, Median household incomes rose more for middle income Americans from 1983-2004 compared to
upper income families. - False
The U.S. Health Care System is best characterized as a: - Hybrid system of public and private care
Which government program provides medical insurance for the elderly and the disabled? - Medicare
Some opponents of sex selection through PGD or MicoSort fear that reproductive medicine will
eventually lead to designer babies. - True
According to the film, _____ causes many people to remain in poverty. - Generational Poverty
According to Census data, the federal poverty line includes ___ for a family of four. - Around 10,000
The _____ was initially created to act as a central clearinghouse for all budget request in 1921, advises
for the president on fiscal and economic policies, and is offset by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO).
- Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) requires that... - The public be allowed to review
environmental impact statements (EIS)
Discretionary (non-entitlement) spending funds.. - The National Park System
On-line calculators help individuals to gauge the environmental impact of various activities from heating
and lighting a home to flying across the country. - True
Heavily influenced by economics, ______ assumes that in making decisions, individuals have a fixed set
of preference and act instrumentally to maximize these preferences. - Rational Choice.
The assigned research projects include a policy section with a policy overview and a research question
and a literature review with _____ articles. - Scholarly Peer Reviewed
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