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Practice Test
a. policy impact
b. market failure
c. policy subsystem
d. referendum
Question 2
________refers to the processes by which government structures and authority are established and maintained.
a. Separation of Powers
b. Federalism
c. Policy analysis
d. Politics
Question 3
The formation of the __________ caused one of the largest federal reorganizations in history.
Question 4
There has been increased interest in recent history for _________ the transfer of more authority to
state government.
a. decentralization
b. deregulation
c. federalism
d. mandates
Question 5
Question 6
Question 7
What is the president’s major forum for agenda setting and announcing the coming year's
priorities?
Question 8
When policymakers want to take a population's thoughts about a policy into consideration, they take
part in a:
Question 9
Which of the following policy analysis criteria is used if the acceptability of a particular alternative to
interest groups, the general public, or politicians is a concern?
a. political effectiveness
b. efficiency
c. equity
d. political feasibility
Question 10
________________ tools encourage the target population to participate in and find out about a policy issues
a. Learning
b. Capacity-building
c. Hortatory
d. Authority
Question 11
a. Charging fees
b. Spending money
c. Education
d. Regulating
Question 12
Which of the following criteria for evaluating public policies deals most explicitly with whether the
program achieves its goals or not?
a. equity
b. efficiency
c. effectiveness
d. equality
Question 13
__________ requires knowledge of who the major actors are in the policy subsystem and how
much they may support a particular alternative.
a. Program evaluation
b. Political feasibility analysis
c. Risk assessment
d. Cost-benefit analysis
Question 14
Which government office is in charge of monitoring how other agencies conduct cost-benefit
analyses?
Concern about the reaction of interest groups to a proposed policy alternative is addressed by
assessing:
a. social effectiveness.
b. administrative feasibility.
c. political feasibility .
d. technical efficiency.
Question 16
Which of the following institutions is responsible for initiating the budget process?
Question 17
Sales tax can be problematic because of which of the following criteria for evaluating tax policy?
a. distributive effects
b. buoyancy
c. visibility
d. collect ability
Question 18
Question 19
a. policy advocacy
b. policy evaluation.
c. policy analysis .
d. policy description.
Question 20
a. agenda setting
b. policy advocacy
c. policy evaluation
d. policy analysis
Question 21
In Dye, one problem that researchers have in their attempt to find solutions for public problems is
Question 22
The most serious reservation about policy analysis is the inability to make accurate predictions
because of
Question 23
a. agenda setting
b. policy evaluation
c. problem identification
d. policy input
Question 24
Question 25