Deck 7: Public Policy

Question 1

Poorer countries generally receive most of their revenue from

A)income taxes.
B)sales taxes.
C)indirect taxes.
D)regressive taxes.

Answer 1

C

Question 2

With regard to governments as producers,

A)onlyA.only communist governments produce social and economic goods.
B)onlyB.only democratic governments produce goods and services.
C)communistC.communist governments produce social goods and democratic governments produce economic goods.
D)allD.all governments produce goods and services.

Answer 2

D

Question 3

Indirect taxes on luxury goods are generally considered to be

A)progressive.
B)regressive.
C)equitable.
D)income taxes.

Answer 3

A

Question 4

Extraction of services includes all of the following EXCEPT

A)military service.
B)jury duty.
C)sales taxes.
D)forced labor in prisons.

Question 5

The total value of goods and services produced by a country's residents in a year is called the

A)GNP.
B)GDP.
C)PPP.
D)PCI.

Question 6

Problems associated with modern welfare states include all of the following EXCEPT

A)the rising level of university education.
B)the rising level of the dependency ratio.
C)lack of work incentive.
D)trade-offs between social welfare and extractive capabilities.

Question 7

The overall trend in world taxation policies is towards

A)higher income taxes.
B)lower income tax rates.
C)higher sales taxes.
D)lower sales taxes.

Question 8

Coercion,material and financial inducements,and persuasion and moral exhortation are all means by which governments can enforce

A)liberty.
B)anarchy.
C)unwritten social contracts.
D)regulations.

Question 9

With regard to military spending,poorer countries

A)spend a lower percentage of their GNP than richer countries.
B)spend a higher percentage of their GNP than richer countries.
C)have spending patterns that vary with the international environment.
D)spend very little on military and more on education and health.

Question 10

In the past decade,crime rates in the United States and some other countries have

A)increased marginally.
B)increased dramatically.
C)decreased marginally.
D)decreased dramatically.

Question 11

Income taxes are

A)excise taxes.
B)regressive.
C)direct.
D)indirect.

Question 12

Over the last several decades,national economies have become

A)restrictive to international trade.
B)more protectionist in the natural resource sector.
C)more based on supply and demand.
D)more dependent on international trade and capital flows.

Question 13

Public policy consists of all the authoritative public decisions that governments make- - the outputs of the political system.

Question 14

Distribution,extraction,regulation,and symbolic actions are all examples of

A)functionsA.functions provided only in communist governments.
B)functionsB.functions provided only in authoritarian governments.
C)functionsC.functions provided only in democratic governments.
D)publicD.public policy outputs in all governments.

Question 15

In this century,the power of the state has been

A)decreasedA.decreased with regard to human welfare.
B)increasedB.increased dramatically to meet popular demands.
C)unrelatedC.unrelated to popular needs and demands.
D)usedD.used only to respond to popular needs and demands.

Question 16

Which of the following characterizes a symbolic policy?

A)the building of a new weapons system
B)the implementation of new speed limits
C)the building of a new school
D)appeals to courage and wisdom by leaders in times of war

Question 17

According to the text,welfare states

A)give people incentives to behave responsibly.
B)are easily supportable.
C)have little to do with churches or private foundations.
D)are outgrowing their capacity.

Question 18

Political and civil rights are related in that

A)when a country scores high on participatory rights,it is correspondingly low on civil rights.
B)a country low on participatory rights is usually high on civil rights.
C)there is always a positive correlation.
D)there is no significant correlation.

Question 19

In comparison to Europeans,Americans have historically

A)put more emphasis on welfare obligations than Europeans.
B)put more emphasis on equality of opportunity.
C)not supported the development of mass education.
D)depended entirely on private donations for welfare support.

Question 20

Whether a public policy outcome is good or bad is determined by

A)politicalA.political goods and values.
B)theB.the UN.
C)policymakersC.policymakers.
D)theD.the bureaucracy.

Question 21

Most democracies have a difficult time balancing security and liberty for their population.

Question 22

Crime rates in industrialized democracies have continued to rise in the last decade.

Question 23

There is a strong positive correlation between political and civil rights.

Question 24

Personal and corporate income taxes,property taxes,and taxes on capital gains are considered to be direct taxes.

Question 25

Many of the autocratic states in Africa would be considered "rentier states," which impedes the development of democracy in the region.

Question 26

Appealing to the courage and wisdom during times of war is an example of an extractive policy output.

Question 27

Unlike the United States,most advanced industrialized democracies have balanced national budgets.

Question 28

Welfare state expenditures have gradually decreased across industrialized democracies in recent decades.

Question 29

Indirect taxes are commonly added to products consumers purchase.