Exam 13: Issues in Public Policy: Politics, Principles, Priorities, and Practices

Which postindustrial modern state does NOT consider health care a basic human right?

The national government can use the power of prior restraint at any time to prevent the press from reporting negative things that it does not want to be made public.

Which U. .S President famously campaigned on (and failed to keep) a promise not to raise taxes?

What attempt to reform and improve the American educational system has been widely criticized as problematic from the start?

All of these are among the four "P's" of public policy EXCEPT

The United States continues to give high priority to national defense as illustrated by its accounting for half the world's arms expenditures every year.

The Balanced Budget Act of 1997 mandated a balanced federal budget, but what changed to allow Congress to ignore it?

What protects citizens in the U.S. against the abuse of police power?

In the Bakke reverse-discrimination case, the Supreme Court held that all affirmative action programs were unconstitutional.

Under due process of law, alleged criminals can be tried more than once for the same crime if new evidence becomes available.

The Emissions Trading Scheme is designed to reduce the carbon footprint of who?

Although liberals and conservatives agree that equality is important in some sense, they do not agree on what kind of equality is necessary or how much inequality is desirable.

In the United States, corporate income is taxed heavier than individual income.

What was the pretense for the Bush administration's subpoenaing of U.S. hospitals and clinics for patient records in the early 2000s?

What did the Civil Rights Cases of 1883 accomplish?

Which Supreme Court decision upheld racial segregation as constitutional?

What did Thomas Hobbes believe was the main responsibility for government to provide?

The richest 15 percent of Americans control approximately of financial assets in America?

Major issues of public policy demonstrate that the five core values of security, prosperity, equality, liberty, and justice often come into conflict with one another.

The various provisions of the U.S. Patriot Act apply only to people suspected of engaging in terrorism.