Exam 13: Politics, Analysis, and Policy Choice

This group of American citizens is the least likely to vote ______.

What do the policy outcomes reflect?

Provide an example of a program that you believe to be effective.

Identify one way to strengthen citizen capacity.

______ issues can deal with a range of concerns, from protecting individual freedoms to how the cost and benefits of a program are distributed across the population.

What criterion is most likely to receive increased attention in contemporary policy making as policy alternatives and existing programs are assessed?

The public can get involved in the policy-making process by ______.

The dominant policy-making style in the United States is ______.

How can citizen participation improve policy capacity?

How does the case of voter ID laws remind us that public policy changes over time?

Provide a good example of forward-looking and wide-ranging policymaking.

A relatively new form of citizen participation, ______ allows citizens to access government agencies and their policies through various Web sites.

The presidential election of ______ clearly showed that modern Internet technologies facilitate a much greater level of citizen involvement even in national elections and governing.

What is one advantage of incremental policymaking?

Measuring whether the Economic Stimulus of 2009 has sparked creation of jobs and economic growth is an example of using which evaluative criterion?

Explain policy analysis.

______ refers to the ability of government to identify and act on public problems within a reasonable time.

Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of the U.S. federal government's incremental policy-making approach.

Explain citizen capacity.

Select a recent public policy alternative and, to the best of your ability, evaluate it using the criteria of effectiveness, efficiency, and equity. What kind of information might you need? What problems may arise in trying to conduct your evaluation?