SPEA-V 185 EXAM PACKAGE DEAL GRADED A+

Public Management - the formal and informal process of guiding human interaction toward public organizational objectives. Public Policy - The action or inaction of government regarding a particular issue or set of issues. What government does or purposely doesn't do. Bureaucracy - A specific fo...

Scientific Method for Social Science - Usually has four basic components -Theory -Operationalization -Observation -Analysis Dependent Variable - A factor/event/outcome that we want to explain Independent Variable - Causes/explanations/factors that we think are important in driving the outcome...

Policy - Some plan of actions that is designed to address a particular problem or situation. -Purposive, Goal oriented, strategic -Made in advance, implies some degree of long-term orientation Public Policy - The action (or inaction) of government with regard to a particular issue or set of issu...

Rational Choice/Public Choice - The application of economic assumptions about rationality and self-interest to the study of political behavior What does it mean to be a rational actor - -based on the expected utility of each option. -These rank-ordered preferences are stable and transitive -You ...

Theory - some basic understanding of things that helps us simplify and explain complex relationships Operationalization - how to turn abstract concepts into something tangible/ meaningful observation - how to measure analysis - how to demonstrate causality or pattern, ex. when trying to solve di...