Unit 8

Question 1

Agenda Setting

Answer 1

The process in the policy making and political sphere that involves the selection and prioritization of issues or topics that will be considered and addressed by governments.

Question 2

Alternative service delivery

Answer 2

A purposed new method of delivering government programs, such as the establishment of government service agencies that have considerable autonomy from the normal departmental structures and rules and the establishment of partnerships with business, other levels of government, and voluntary organization to deliver services.

Question 3

Representative Bureaucracy

Answer 3

A bureaucracy that reflects the characteristics of society, particularly by trying to ensure all levels of public service have a proportion of women, and various disadvantaged minority groups similar to that of the population as a whole.

Question 4

Bureaucracy

Answer 4

An organization in which people are hired and promoted based on their qualifications and merit, work is organized in terms of specialized positions, detailed rules and procedures are followed by all members of the organizations, and there is a hierarchical chain of command so that those are the top can supervise those are the bottom

Question 5

Cost-Benefit Analysis

Answer 5

this is the systematic and analytical process used in economics and public policy to evaluate the pros and cons of a project, program or policy

Question 6

Crown Corporations

Answer 6

Business entities that are controlled, owned, or operated by a government or specific government agency.

Question 7

Deputy Minister

Answer 7

The executive head of a department of government appointed by the prime minister in consultation with the Clerk of the Privy Council office. the deputy minister runs the department with oversight by the Cabinet minister

Question 8

Ministerial responsibility

Answer 8

The principles within the parliamentary systems that refers to members of the executive branch being held accountable to the legislative body

Question 9

Policy implementation

Answer 9

: this refers to the process of putting government policies and laws into action

Question 10

Policy legitimation

Answer 10

This is the process by which a government seeks to gain public acceptance, support, and recognition of its policies

Question 11

Policy networks

Answer 11

This refers to the informal and often collaborative relationships among various individuals, groups, and organizations involved in the policy process

Question 12

Public Policy

Answer 12

A course of action or inaction chosen by public authority to address a given problem or interrelated set of problems

Question 13

responsible government

Answer 13

The concept that the political executive is accountable to parliament and must retain the support of the elected members of parliament to remain in office

Question 14

Pluralist Theory

Answer 14

A pluralist perspective views public policies in a liberal democracy as the outcome of competition between various groups that seeks to protect and promote the interests of their members, with no group having a dominant influence

Question 15

Neo-marxist Theory

Answer 15

This theory views politics as reflecting the conflicts that results from the ways societies organize themselves to produce goods and services.
Government policies generally reflect the unequal power relation between the dominant capitalist forces and the subordinate working class

Question 16

Public Choice Theory

Answer 16

this theory assumes that all people involved with politics endeavor to maximize their own interests or preferences.

Question 17

State-Centered Theory

Answer 17

This theory views public policies as reflecting the wants and preferences of those in important positions of authority within state institutions

Question 18

Max Weber

Answer 18

A German Sociologist who wrote extensively about the role and function of bureaucracies, especially their existence and operation in the democratic state.