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California State University Northridge Political Science Practice Quiz
Harold Thomas’ 4 phases of policy formulation include:
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Forward mapping is also referred to as the bottom-up approach.
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According to Thomas Birkland, media attention to public problems, and to some extent to proposed policy solutions, promotes learning.
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Which category of tools does the transfer of money to invest in intellectual, material and/or human resources fall under?
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Theodore Lowi’s 4 typologies include:
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Formative evaluation is conducted upon conclusion of the implementation of a program.
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Signing statements may be issued by the president for
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Routine policy solutions are easy to formulate since there is both low knowledge of factual information and theory of causation, which make it limited.
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An example of redistributive policy includes:
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In the dispursement of cost/benefit within this particular type of policy, most pay and most benefit.
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Every symbolic policy has a cost and benefit associated with it.
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Policy adoption allows policymakers to select the most acceptable solution among the list of existing policy alternatives available.
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Which category would the elderly, as a target population, fall under according to social to Schneider and Ingram’s social construction of target populations theory?
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Mapping exercises may be used to improve the success of policies by incorporating and connecting implementation to the policy formation stages.
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Unions are an example of an anti-termination coalition that may appear as an obstacle to policy/program termination.
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How many different types of implementation games were identified by Eugene Bardach?
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According to Thomas Birkland, the policy design (formulation) process includes the following elements:
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A reason leading to the termination of a policy (or a program that the policy created) may include:
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A policy community within any policy domain consists of just official actors according to Thomas Birkland.
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According to the easy money implementation game, politicians spend taxpayer money on their own constituents in order to generate political support.
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If health care is the policy domain, then an example of subdomains may include medicaid and medicare.
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This type of policy solution produces poor policy choices since knowledge of factual information is lacking although a theory of causation exists.
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According to Thomas Birkland, this type of policy learning focuses on policy tools and techniques and is about the viability of policy interventions and implementation designs.
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One example of regulatory policy involves the regulation of businesses (such as airline safety policies) in order to benefit the majority.
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The idiom, “too many cooks in the kitchen”, is a great way to explain
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The most profound type of focusing event that typically requires regional and/or national government assistance. (In some cases even international government and nonprofit organizational assistance are needed to address the problem).
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It is the stage in which options that might help resolve issues and problems recognized at the agenda-setting stage are identified, refined, appraised, and formalized.
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Thomas Birkland argues that focusing events elevate problems onto the agenda.
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When it comes to performance measures, policy output looks at the quantity whereas policy outcome looks at the quality.
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Thomas Birkland would argue that once policies are implemented, experience with it and with similar policies will often lead to change in the policy design, even when the policy and its goals are supposedly in place and operating.