Exam 13: Politics, Analysis, and Policy Choice

How does the amount of trust in government and its leaders affect citizen participation in the policy process?

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

Wisconsin ______ required that residents present an acceptable photo identification card in order to vote in state and federal elections.

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

The 2016 election produced a close victory in ______ in the presidential race.

As budget pressures and scarce funding become dominant issues at all levels of government, use of which evaluative criterion has increased?

The history of ______ in areas as diverse as energy policy, economic stimulus measures, health-care reform, and taxes and spending reflects the inability of policy makers to resolve some of these deep conflict.

______ often take a position on a policy issue and try to influence policy makers to take their position through release of reports, personal persuasion, testifying, lobbying, advertising, and the like.

Which statement best describes the relationship of policy analysis to the policy process model?

______ reflect who participates in the process, who does not, and the different resources that each policy actor brings to the decision-making arena.

______ arises when policy actors have differing views about the substance of public policies or whether government intervention is justifiable at all.

______, a technique of gathering information about problems and studying proposals, can bring greater clarity to public policymaking.

______ issues and personal freedom are addressed less frequently.

To get their news, many people rely on entertaining news outlets or one-sided broadcasts that reflect their own views. To get the best understanding of the real issues or proposals being made by government, one should ______.

Which of the following evaluative criteria are emphasized in all of the following policy debates: income gap, urban K-12 education, cost of higher education, taxation of wealthy, Social Security benefits, access to health care, and climate change?

How can citizen participation improve policy capacity?

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act was passed in ______.

Opportunities for citizen involvement in government are greatest at the ______ level.

At periodic stages of the policy process, ______ is the criterion analysts use to determine how well a policy has lived up to expectations.

The world's population is expected to climb to some 9.8 billion by ______.