Exam 4: Policy Evaluation

Nontarget groups are those that are not considered when analyzing the benefits and costs of a policy.

The idea of "concentrated benefits, dispersed costs" refers to the fact that programs are paid for by many people, but benefit relatively few.

Unlike the Office of Management and Budget, the General Accountability Office is attached to Congress.

Which of these compares the impact of a program with what would have happened without the program?

Before after comparisons are hampered by the difficulty of linking effects to causes.

Program evaluation is the central mission of the Office of Management and Budget.

Evaluation of governmental agencies does not usually include

Which of these is the most common element of program evaluations?

A political approach to policy analysis emphasizes all of the following except

In comparisons between control and experimental groups before and after program implementation, a major hindrance is(are)

Before and after studies generally focus only on

In a scientific study, the

When people behave differently because they know they are being observed, they are demonstrating the

When the text speaks of the "dispersed costs" of government programs, to whom or to what are those costs dispersed?

If we add both the immediate and long-term symbolic and tangible benefits of a policy and subtract the costs of the same, we would calculate

Which of the following research designs is considered "most common"?

When we engage in policy evaluation, we are primarily interested in

Wilson's laws deal with

The Hawthorne effect relates to the positive bias inevitable in social science research.

The agency responsible for making sure that tax dollars are spent honestly and wisely is the