Deck 7: Policies and Policy Types

Question 1

The phenomenon that involves members of a legislature agreeing to vote for each other's spending bills is known as _____________

A)voting.
B)logrolling.
C)vote winking.
D)a Yankee gentlemen's agreement.
E)proxy voting.

Answer 1

logrolling.

Question 2

The daily newspaper of federal regulatory activity is called the ______________

A)Congressional Record.
B)Federal Register.
C)New York Times.
D)Regulatory Tribune.
E)Federal Regulatory Times.

Answer 2

Federal Register.

Question 3

Which is a level of policy codification?

A)Statutory
B)Regulatory
C)Constitutional
D)All of the above

Answer 3

All of the above

Question 4

Which is considered a street-level bureaucrat?

A)State government representative
B)City Chief of Police
C)U.S.Attorney General
D)Federal Court of Appeals Judge

Question 5

The allocation of television and radio frequencies and the awarding of cable television franchises are examples of which policy type?

A)redistributive
B)competitive regulatory
C)protective regulatory
D)procedural

Question 6

Protective regulatory policy

A)regulates competition between actors in society and the market place.
B)distributes resources amongst various members of the public.
C)regulates the interactions between welfare recipients and the wealthiest members of society.
D)seeks to protect the public from the negative effects of private activity.

Question 7

Which policy type is considered highly controversial and the most visible?

A)Distributive
B)Protective regulatory
C)Redistributive
D)Symbolic

Question 8

Three factors policy designers must consider when developing policy are

A)political feasibility, resources, and behavior of policy target.
B)political power, public opinion and finances.
C)party expertise, political seniority and ease of implementation.
D)administrative expertise, national mood, and political power.

Question 9

Policies that are intended to govern the conduct of business are called:

A)regulatory policies.
B)distributive polices.
C)redistributive policies.
D)agenda policies.

Question 10

The level of visibility for redistributive policies is

A)Low
B)Moderate
C)High
D)Very low

Question 11

The level of visibility for protective regulatory policies is

A)Low
B)Moderate
C)High
D)Very low

Question 12

Classifying policies as either liberal or conservative is:

A)Is to classify policies according to their ideological content.
B)Is to classify policies according to their cost/ benefit ratio.
C)Is to classify policies according the amount of support a political party gives them.
D)Is to classify policies according to their material or symbolic content.

Question 13

Which of the following is not an example of a policy type?

A)exemplary
B)procedural
C)substantive
D)distributive

Question 14

Which term below is NOT one of the classic three policy categories of Theodore Lowi?

A)distributive
B)redistributive
C)procedural
D)regulatory

Question 15

Policies that involve peak associations and that highest levels of government are called

A)regulatory policies.
B)distributive polices.
C)redistributive policies.
D)agenda policies.

Question 16

"Pork barrel" spending is most closely associated with which policy type?

A)regulatory policies.
B)distributive polices.
C)redistributive policies.
D)agenda policies.

Question 17

Log rolling by legislators often leads to _______ spending

A)pork barrel
B)wise
C)cost effective
D)representative
E)transparent

Question 18

Which these levels of policy codification are in proper order, from most to least visible?

A)Behavior of Street Level Bureaucrats, Statutory, Regulatory, Constitutional, Standard Operating Procedures
B)Behavior of Street Level Bureaucrats, Constitutional, Regulatory, Standard Operating Procedures, Statutory
C)Statutory, Standard Operating Procedures, Regulatory, Constitutional, Behavior of Street Level Bureaucrats
D)Constitutional, Statutory, Regulatory, Standard Operating Procedures, Behavior of Street Level Bureaucrats

Question 19

James Q. Wilson's policy typology arranges policies along which two continua?

A)State and federal policies.
B)Expensive versus inexpensive policies.
C)Costs and benefits to those paying for or receiving services .
D)Policies that are easily implemented versus policies that are hard to implement.

Question 20

How would you define a policy?

Question 21

Choose two levels of policy and explain where and how it is codified.

Question 22

Explain the differences between distributive, redistributive and regulatory policies.

Question 23

Explain the difference between statute law and case law.

Question 24

Explain the difference between material and symbolic policies.

Question 25

Identify an example of a redistributive policy and briefly explain its purpose/function.

Question 26

Explain why distributive policy receives so little attention compared with other types of policies.

Question 27

Explain what a public policy is. Does a public policy have to be explicitly stated?

Question 28

Explain why the "constitutional:" level of policy is a much more visible form of policy than other forms of policy, such as statutes or regulations.

Question 29

Explain why the Federal Register is important in the policy process.

Question 30

Explain why theorists have created policy typologies.

Question 31

Who created the idea of "interest group liberalism" and what does it mean?

Question 32

In what ways is Wilson's cost/benefit policy typology similar to Lowi's typology?

Question 33

Explain what the book means when it that we should think of costs and benefits as arranged on continua, rather than as dichotomies.

Question 34

Explain the difference between material and symbolic policies.

Question 35

What is the Administrative Procedures Act and why is it significant to the policy process?

Question 36

According to Theodore Lowi, issues of national importance are more often debated than are the concerns of interest groups.

Question 37

Distributive policies are the least controversial.

Question 38

Policies that do not make any substantive changes to the law or policy outcomes are called symbolic policies.

Question 39

There are usually no clear losers in distributive policies.

Question 40

There are usually no clear losers in redistributive policies.

Question 41

A law that establishes a day of remembrance for a significant individual is an example of a distributive policy.

Question 42

Policy typologies allow for the easy assignment of policies to different policy types, making analysis simpler.

Question 43

Policy typologies, if well-constructed, can help us explain and predict what sort of political conflict will accompany policy debates.

Question 44

Sunshine laws are environmental protections regulations to reduce the greenhouse effects impact on global warming.

Question 45

The lowest level government workers make public policy through their daily work.

Question 46

The Federal Register is most often read by those who have a direct and technical interest in public policy.

Question 47

Congress possesses the expertise to draft the technical details of most public policies.

Question 48

Regulatory agencies sometimes make policies that are opposed by some members of Congress.

Question 49

Distributive policy involves the distribution of regulations to producers to protect the public and consumers from negative externalities.

Question 50

All regulations issued by agencies are approved by Congress before they are issued.

Question 51

The ability to make regulations means that executive branch agencies' powers are largely unchecked.

Question 52

Both tangible and intangible resources are at issue in debates over redistributive policies.

Question 53

Redistributive policy always redistributes benefits or rights from the wealthy to the poor.