Final Exam

Question 1

___ is the process of advising a client

Answer 1

policy

Question 2

____ ____ is the larger domain in which a policy belongs

Answer 2

policy domain

Question 3

Kingdons four steps are

Answer 3

1. Set the agenda
2. Specify alternatives
3. Make an authoritative choice
4. Implement

Question 4

a ______ is the list of subjects or problems to which government officials and people outside the government closely associate with those officials and are paying serious attention to

Answer 4

agenda

Question 5

What are the three types of kingdon agendas?

Answer 5

specialized, government, decision

Question 6

_______ or HMO is closed panel groups of physicians that work for specific companies, the payment was per capita

Answer 6

Health Maintenance Organization

Question 7

__ ____ ____ was comprehensive insurance benefits and universal coverage

Answer 7

National Health Insurance

Question 8

_____ was a single consumer dictating a market

Answer 8

monopsony

Question 9

____ _____ the cutting of fair prices because numerous airlines cut prices and knocked out other airlines out of business

Answer 9

airline deregulation

Question 10

___ ____ water way user charges to rebuild barge interests for shipping

Answer 10

waterway fees

Question 11

____ ____ was a philosopher and political activist. Born in Chicago in 1990, he wrote “reville for radicals”, “rules for radicals” … he wrote these books to explain community organizing

Answer 11

Saul Alinsky

Question 12

Interest groups do what three things?

Answer 12

Gain, Restrain, Sustain

Question 13

____ ______ wrote “beyond freedom and dignity” and “walden two”, he was a behavioralist who said that environmental stimuli have power of adverse effects on individuals behvaior … he was a behavioralist

Answer 13

BF Skinner

Question 14

______ can come from anywhere, tracing origins leads to infinite regress

Answer 14

origins of initiatives

Question 15

___ ____ ___ defines goals, sets expected levels of achievement, accesses costs and benefits

Answer 15

rational decision making

Question 16

_____ ______ is full redesign or brand new alternatives which cause higher risk

Answer 16

non-incremental change

Question 17

______ was the chairman of the house nin charge of the medicare drug benefit

Answer 17

billy Tauzin

Question 18

____ _______ was interested in the theory of pure mathematics … he thought language determined the nature of the world

Answer 18

ludwig wittgenstein

Question 19

____ _____ ____ a measure of something that is collateral … indirect measures of a conceptual phenomena … systematic indicators show the presence of a problem

Answer 19

value of indicators

Question 20

_____ help assess the magnitude of a problem

Answer 20

indicators

Question 21

______- was a bill following historic tax cuts after the inauguration of bush in 2001

Answer 21

No Child Left Behind

Question 22

____ is the act of showing that links do count … these can be between problems + problems or problems + solutions … coupling is not coincidence

Answer 22

coupling

Question 23

what is SDGU?

Answer 23

self defense gun use

Question 24

____ ___ house members get 18 full time and 4 part time staff with fixed budget

Answer 24

congressional staff

Question 25

____ _____ a committee with advanced degrees, approved for this purpose

Answer 25

professional staff

Question 26

____ ___ was a spanish american naturalist and pragmatist

Answer 26

George Santayna

Question 27

___ ____ are hard proposals

Answer 27

formal priorities

Question 28

____ ______ are cues and preferences, displacing other items on the agenda

Answer 28

informal priorites

Question 29

____ take energy and skills and devote to public sphere

Answer 29

careerists