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Harold Thomas’ 4 phases of policy formulation include:

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appraisal, dialogue, formulation assessment, and consolidation

agenda setting, dialogue, assessment, and adoption

agenda setting, dialogue, assessment, and consolidation

appraisal, dialogue, legitimation, and consolidation

problem identification, agenda setting, formulation, and adoption

Flag question: Question 2Question 21 pts

Forward mapping is also referred to as the bottom-up approach.

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True

False

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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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True

False

Flag question: Question 4Question 41 pts

Which category of tools does the transfer of money to invest in intellectual, material and/or human resources fall under?

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mandates

capacity-building

appraisal

system change

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Theodore Lowi’s 4 typologies include:

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self-regulatory, distributive, regulatory, and redistributive

inputs, outputs, outcomes, and process

contenders, dependents, deviants, and advantaged

craftsman, creative, conditional, and routine

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Formative evaluation is conducted upon conclusion of the implementation of a program.

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True

False

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Signing statements may be issued by the president for

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All of the choices listed are correct

rhetorical purposes

political purposes

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consitutional purposes

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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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True

False

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An example of redistributive policy includes:

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defense policy

social security policy

licensing policy

meat safety policy

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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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redistributive policy

distributive policy

routine policy

regulatory policy

creative policy

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Every symbolic policy has a cost and benefit associated with it.

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True

False

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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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True

False

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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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dependents

highlighted

contenders

advantaged

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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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True

False

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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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True

False

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How many different types of implementation games were identified by Eugene Bardach?

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5

4

6

3

Flag question: Question 17Question 171 pts

According to Thomas Birkland, the policy design (formulation) process includes the following elements:

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policy appraisal, politics, policy tools, policy target, and policy implementation

policy appraisal, policy goals, policy target, and policy implementation

policy goals, causal model, policy tools, policy target, and the implementation of policy

policy goals, policy tools, policy target, and policy mapping

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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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budget cuts

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lack of agreement

poor evaluation results

no longer a need

Flag question: Question 19Question 191 pts

A policy community within any policy domain consists of just official actors according to Thomas Birkland.

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True

False

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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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True

False

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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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True

False

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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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Craftsman

Creative

Conditional

Routine

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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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social learning

evolutionary learning

instrumental learning

political learning

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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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True

False

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The idiom, “too many cooks in the kitchen”, is a great way to explain

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poor choice of agency

easy life game

information asymmetry

complexity of joint action

the principle-agent problem

Flag question: Question 26Question 261 pts

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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crises

catastrophe

disaster

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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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policy change

policy formulation

policy implementation

policy evaluation

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Thomas Birkland argues that focusing events elevate problems onto the agenda.

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True

False

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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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True

False

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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.

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True

False