Deck 2: The Policy Process and Policy Theories

Question 1

Significant episodes or experiences that influence the priority level of the public's agenda are referred to as ______.

A) media framing
B) priming
C) focusing events
D) multiple streams

Answer 1

C

Question 2

The cycle of elections is a dimension of which of the following environments?

A) Environmental
B) Political
C) Cultural and social
D) Administrative

Answer 2

B

Question 3

All of the following factors that affect the context of policymaking were discussed in the chapter except for ______.

A) political
B) scientific
C) administrative
D) economic

Answer 3

B

Question 4

President Trump's immigration policy reform falls under which of the following factors that affect the context of policymaking?

A) Cultural and social
B) Administrative
C) Economic
D) Political

Question 5

The Great Depression is an example that further shows how the ______ environment can affect policymaking.

A) economic
B) political
C) cultural and social
D) administrative

Question 6

Which of the following issues are more likely to gain traction if the economy is doing well?

A) economic
B) environmental
C) political
D) administrative

Question 7

The identify of Americans and their beliefs in freedom fall under which of the following policy context components?

A) Political
B) Administrative
C) Economic
D) Social and cultural

Question 8

Which of the following environments concerns "who" in the government will implement policies?

A) Economic
B) Political
C) Administrative
D) Social and cultural

Question 9

According to the text, questions regarding the administration of a policy solution are intertwined with which of the following values ?

A) Educational
B) Social and cultural
C) Political
D) Economic

Question 10

According to the text, which of the following dimensions of the policymaking context deals with the practical side of policies?

A) Political
B) Economic
C) Social and cultural
D) Administrative

Question 11

The administrative environment goes hand-in-hand with which of the following policymaking stages?

A) Agenda setting
B) Formulation
C) Evaluation
D) Implementation

Question 12

All of the following statements concerning theory in public are true except for _____.

A) Individuals have similar interests, values, perceptions, and preferences
B) Policymaking encompasses significant time spans
C) Theories account for the ways public problems are approached and understood
D) Multiple policies and programs may or may not align well with one another

Question 13

A ________ is a supposition or a system of ideas intended to explain something.

A) multiple streams framework
B) risk assessment
C) theory
D) focusing event

Question 14

According to the text, the role of the government in health care dates back to the _____.

A) 1930s
B) 1940s
C) 1950s
D) 1960s

Question 15

According to the text, in the 1950s and 1960s, the federal government began to get involved with ______ policy.

A) education
B) environmental
C) energy
D) healthcare

Question 16

______ was the first scholar to articulate a decision process of public policy?

A) Harold Laswell
B) Paul Schulman
C) Charles Lindbloom
D) Bryan Jones

Question 17

The first stage of the policy process is ______.

A) agenda setting
B) formulation
C) problem identification and definition
D) policy evaluation

Question 18

According to the stages heuristic model, what happens after a public problem has been identified?

A) The problem gets defined
B) The problem gets placed on the agenda
C) The solution to the problem are formulated
D) The solution to the problem is evaluated

Question 19

Which of the following stages precedes agenda setting?

A) Problem identification and definition
B) Implementation
C) Formulation
D) Evaluation

Question 20

Which of the following stages follows a public problem identification and definition?

A) Evaluation
B) Legitimation
C) Agenda setting
D) Formulation

Question 21

According to the text, which policymaking stage is best known for halting the progress of policy options?

A) Legitimation
B) Implementation
C) Formulation
D) Agenda setting

Question 22

Individuals who make it their professional objective to get the public and their policymakers to focus on addressing a particular public problem are referred to as ______.

A) policy officials
B) policy actors
C) policy advocators
D) policy entrepreneurs

Question 23

Who is responsible for making decisions about public problems?

A) The media
B) Elected officials
C) Advocacy group members
D) The public

Question 24

According to the text, which of the following issues are discussed at the macro level of the policy agenda?

A) Climate change
B) Education reform
C) Social security reform
D) Immigration reform

Question 25

Which of the following levels of the policy agenda is considered the macro level?

A) Institutional
B) Decision
C) Systemic
D) Universe

Question 26

According to the authors' tax code modifications persist one what level of the policy agenda?

A) Universe
B) Institutional
C) Systemic
D) Decision

Question 27

Public policy problems and options that are being considered and might have a chance of action a part of the ______ agenda.

A) Systemic
B) Universe
C) Institutional
D) Decision

Question 28

According to the text, climate change policy persists at which level of the policy agenda?

A) Decision
B) Systemic
C) Universe
D) Institutional

Question 29

Ideas and solutions that are competing to win traction and acceptance by policymaker's is a component of the ______ stream.

A) Problem
B) Public
C) Policy
D) Politics

Question 30

Campaigns and elections cycles take place in which of the following streams of the Multiple Streams Framework (MSF)?

A) Public
B) Politics
C) Policy
D) Problem

Question 31

Which of the following stages of policymaking process entails brainstorming, discussing, and debating solutions?

A) Evaluation
B) Legitimation
C) Formulation
D) Agenda setting

Question 32

The reconciliation of competing goals and values takes place in which of the following stages?

A) Legitimation
B) Formulation
C) Agenda setting
D) Evaluation

Question 33

All of the following were identified as values of American society except for ______.

A) liberty
B) welfare
C) effectiveness
D) security

Question 34

Which of the following best illustrates Peters' six categories of policy tools used by the government?

A) Laws, services, money, taxes, other economic instruments, and suasion
B) Money, services, taxes, education, other economic instruments, and suasion
C) Taxes, subsides, education, services, other economic instruments, and suasion
D) Services, regulations, education, other economic instruments, and suasion

Question 35

Which of the following was not identified as a Multiple Streams Framework (MSF) stream?

A) Politics
B) Problem
C) Public
D) Policy

Question 36

Which of the following Multiple Streams Framework (MSF) streams is also referred to as the policy primeval soup?

A) Politics
B) Problem
C) Policy
D) Public

Question 37

The network of actors working to achieve policy goals is also referred to as a ______.

A) stream
B) policy subsystem
C) focusing event
D) framework

Question 38

Periods of instability are also referred to as ______.

A) equilibria
B) punctuations
C) framework
D) streams

Question 39

All of the following are considered to be official actors in the policymaking process except for ______.

A) Congress
B) Executive agencies
C) Interest groups
D) Courts

Question 40

Unofficial actors can include all of the following except for ______.

A) Citizens
B) Presidents
C) Lobbyists
D) Media

Question 41

Public problems can only be identified by elected officials.

Question 42

According to the authors' public policy are about choices.

Question 43

Government policies are easy to spot and easy to respond to.

Question 44

Statutes and ordinances are examples of laws passed by legislatives bodies in the United States.

Question 45

According to the authors' statutes are often vague.

Question 46

Policy is about what the government does and what it does not do.

Question 47

Public policy happens in a vacuum.

Question 48

Different policies compete with each other to become the government's priorities.

Question 49

It is easy to determine whether a focusing event will bring policy change.

Question 50

Policy areas are all interrelated.

Question 51

Policy is not intended to help us better grasp the multitude of actors involved and what their impact might be on policy.

Question 52

According to the text, policymaking encompasses significant time spans.

Question 53

Theories can help us understand and consider what government should and should not be doing.

Question 54

It is recommended that ad hoc approaches be taken when considering policy.

Question 55

According to the Multiple Streams Framework (MSF) all it takes it two streams to converge for policy to be created.

Question 56

Give an example of how the government responds to public problems.

Question 57

Identify the various circles in which discussions of policy directions and initiatives take place.

Question 58

What is a theory?

Question 59

Identify the things that theories can help us understand.

Question 60

Identify the three different streams of the Multiple Streams Framework (MSF)

Question 61

What is incrementalism, relative to public policy?

Question 62

What is a policy subsystem?

Question 63

What really is policy? Use the information provided in the chapter to help answer the question.

Question 64

Provide one to two examples of public problems in your city or state. Has the government provided a response or solution to the problems?

Question 65

Provide a recent example of a focusing event. How did it influence the public's agenda?

Question 66

Discuss the Multiple Streams Framework (MSF). What are the three streams and how might they contribute to a policy opening?

Question 67

Compare and contrast the public policy models discussed in the chapter. Which public policy model do you believe works best when understanding American public policy?