Chapter 17: Public Policy

Question 1

The process by which government decides what and how to best save human needs

Answer 1

Public Policy

Question 2

What are some public policy topics?

Answer 2

Economy, Energy, Healthcare, Prescription Drugs, Social, Education, Terrorism

Question 3

What is most important decision with setting the agenda

Answer 3

Deciding what belongs on the political agenda

Question 4

What helps determine what is legitimate for the government to do

Answer 4

Shared Beliefs

Question 5

What are some things that affect legitimacy

Answer 5

Political Values, Weight of Custom and Tradition, Impact of Events, Changes in political elites and viewpoints

Question 6

What happens to the size of the scope of government

Answer 6

I always gets larger

Question 7

People believe what about the government?

Answer 7

It should continue to go what they’re doing right now

Question 8

What tends to increase government activites

Answer 8

Changes in attitudes and events

Question 9

True or False:
Government growth can usually be attributed to one political party

Answer 9

False, it’s usually not attributed to one political party

Question 10

Government action can be enlarged without what aspects?

Answer 10

Public Demand

Question 11

What are motivation forced in adding new issues to the agenda

Answer 11

Organized and Unorganized Groups

Question 12

People’s feeling that they are worse off than they expect to be

Answer 12

Relative Deprivation