QUIZ 1

Question 1

what focuses on the importance of formal rules and structures to the policy-making process?

Answer 1

institutionalism

Question 2

______ combines institutionalism focus on formal rules and structures with a focus on the policy environment and organizational culture

Answer 2

new institutionalism

Question 3

What are 3 characteristics of Weber’s bureaucracy?

Answer 3

neutral bureaucrats, tenured bureaucrats, hierarchical structures, professionals/expert bureaucrats

Question 4

What are elements of public policy discussed in class?

Answer 4

demographic characteristics, geographic characteristics, political culture, social structure, economic system

Question 5

the policy framework that posits that organized interests generally outperform unorganized interests

Answer 5

interest groups

Question 6

focuses on the importance of formal rules and structures to the policy-making process

Answer 6

institutionalism

Question 7

The examination of components of public policy or the policy process; the study of the cause and consequence of policy decisions

Answer 7

policy analysis

Question 8

decisions by politicians, civil servants, and others granted authority that lead to the emergence of a policy that can be put into action

Answer 8

policy choices

Question 9

choices put into action

Answer 9

policy outputs

Question 10

the effects that policy choices and policy outputs have on citizens

Answer 10

policy outcomes

Question 11

5 factors that influence Policy Environment

Answer 11

1. Geographic Characteristics
2. Demographic characteristics
3. Political culture
4. Social structure
5. The economic system

Question 12

official players

Answer 12

anyone working for government, including contractors

Question 13

unofficial players

Answer 13

Thinktanks, Experts in academia, Lobbyists, Media, The public

Question 14

public corporation

Answer 14

Large corporations that operate like private corporations, No profits - either goes back into treasury or into fulfilling their missions, Board appointed by government

Question 15

Largest public corporation

Answer 15

USPS

Question 16

quasi-governmental organization

Answer 16

Like public corporations but boards can be appointed by someone other than government (usually self appointed); Can have profits

Question 17

Example of quasi-governmental organization

Answer 17

Amtrack

Question 18

There are elite players in society, or in government, who make most of the policy decisions; these groups are exempt from downside of theories

Answer 18

elite theory

Question 19

Shifting and realigning of coalitions and interest groups that shape policy

Answer 19

group theory

Question 20

Formal structure, rules and procedures are what’s important for how policy is shaped

Answer 20

institutional theory

Question 21

We all try to act in our own rational self interest, including people shaping policy, and do things that will advance self interest

Answer 21

rational choice theory

Question 22

Debates/disagreements in society about what proper choices are and group compete to get their issue addressed; Competing over choices, outputs, outcomes

Answer 22

political systems theory

Question 23

policy cycle

Answer 23

agenda setting, policy formulation, policy adoption, policy implementation, policy evaluation, policy changed/terminated

Question 24

The problems which government officials feel obliged to give active and serious attention

Answer 24

action agenda; institutional agenda

Question 25

All those matters people are talking and worrying about

Answer 25

discussino agenda; systemic agenda

Question 26

Agenda Denial Strategies

Answer 26

There’s no problem, It’s not appropriate for government, It’ll be worse if government acts, It’s better solved by private means, Create a commission, Electoral activity

Question 27

Anthony Downs lists five stages of an issue-attention cycle

Answer 27

1. Pre-problem stage (lacks public attention)
2. Alarmed discovery/euphoric enthusiasm
3. Realization of the cost of significant progress
4. Gradual decline in intensity of public interest
5. Post-problem

Question 28

What does IGR stand for?

Answer 28

Intergovernmental Relations Models

Question 29

3 IGR models

Answer 29

Coordinate, inclusive, overlapping

Question 30

IGR coordinate model characteristics

Answer 30

independent, autonomy

Question 31

IGR Inclusive Model Characteristics

Answer 31

dependent, hierarchical

Question 32

IGR Overlapping Model Characteristics

Answer 32

interdependent, negotiation

Question 33

3 policy frameworks

Answer 33

government, politics, policy analysis

Question 34

The exercise of power in society or in specific decisions over public policy

Answer 34

politics

Question 35

The institutions and political processes through which public policy choices are made

Answer 35

government

Question 36

instruments of public policy

Answer 36

law, services, money, taxes, other economic instruments, persuasion

Question 37

pure public goods

Answer 37

exclusion is costly, negligible marginal costs (clean air, water, roads, parks)

Question 38

what public officials within government, and by extension the citizens they represent, choose to do or not to do about public problems

Answer 38

public policy

Question 39

what public officials within government, and by extension the citizens they represent, choose to do or not to do about public problems

Answer 39

public policy

Question 40

groups involved with iron triangle

Answer 40

administrative agencies, intrest groups, congressional committees

Question 41

Issue Networks

Answer 41

Heclo, issue or policy networks better describe subgovernments than in iron triangles

Question 42

Iron Trianlge

Answer 42

comprises the policy-making relationship among the congressional committees, the bureaucracy, and interest groups, as described in 1981 by Gordon Adams