Exam 2: Political Cultural Environment of Public Policy Its Administration

The president who espoused the stewardship theory of the Presidency was

Pressman and Wildavsky in their 1973 study of the impact of federal programs in Oakland, California, felt that policy planning should look carefully at the difficulties surrounding the implementation of a policy, in terms of who gets what and how and why from the government.

Which of the following is NOT true about the process of public policymaking?

Which of the following is one of the typical outside forces impacting the head of a public agency?

During WWII, Germany and Japan were seen as exemplars of:

The seven step rational decision-making approach has been generally attributed to Harold D. Lasswell, the father of the policy sciences.

In a Republic like the U.S. the:

The stewardship theory states that the president should be free to take any actions in the public interest provided they do not conflict with the Constitution.

President Truman's application of the prerogative theory of executive power ultimately checked by the Supreme Court of the United States in th 1970s.

Government in the United States is considered to be pluralistic because it is composed of multiple elements, and multiple competing levels of power.

The prerogative theory expressed a level of executive power that President Abraham Lincoln felt might not only exceed constitutional bounds, but also possibly act against the Constitution.

Modern group theory derives from the work of:

Allison's Organizational Processes Model argues for the tenets of group theory-- that government decisions are the outcomes of negotiations between different groups and individuals with different bureaucratic perspectives and different political interests.

Which of the following presidents espoused the theory of Executive prerogative:

The "doctrine of the separation of powers was adopted by the Convention of 1787, not to promote efficiency, but to preclude the exercise of arbitrary power." This statement meant that:

In the aftermath of the Watergate scandal when President Nixon was refusing to release his White House tapes he was invoking which form of Executive power?

The restricted view of presidential power was/is embodied in:

The decision making model known as "muddling through" was the contribution of Amitai Etzioni

"Mixed scanning" decision making

Incremental policy decision making implies that