Question 1

What is a cost-benefit analysis (CBA), and how does an analyst use this tool?

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Cost-benefit analysis (CBA) is a systema...

Question 2

The bounded rationality decision making model allows decision makers to adjust policies as they learn from their successes and failures.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 3

The rational actor model includes all of the following assumptions EXCEPT that

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A)  decision makers clearly understand the problems and goals before them.
B)  decision makers are set to solve the problem.
C)  decision makers collect all possible information.
D)  decision makers consider multiple options, including not acting at all.
E)  decision makers take their own personal values and goals into account when making policy.

Question 4

There is a clear distinction between wasteful administrative activity and the services government should be performing.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 5

Incrementalism describes how policy is made in small steps, rather than in big sweeping changes.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 6

Which of the following is a significant critique of cost-benefit analysis?

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A)  Cost-benefit analysis is very unpopular, and is therefore avoided.
B)  It is very hard to value both costs and benefits in monetary terms.
C)  No one really knows how to do cost-benefit analysis very well.
D)  All of the above are significant critiques of cost-benefit analysis.

Question 7

Which of the following is an explanation of policy failure discussed by Ingram and Mann?

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A)  the impact of changing circumstance.
B)  partisan opposition
C)  lack of focus
D)  insufficient motivation
E)  none of the above

Question 8

When selecting a policy tool, policy designers must consider its political feasibility.

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When selecting a policy tool, policy des...

Question 9

Why might the study of policy analysis be considered a "proto-discipline?"

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The study of policy analysis might be co...

Question 10

It is more difficult and expensive to eliminate a problem than it is to simply make the problem less severe.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 11

Examples of hortatory policy tools include

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A)  the 55 mph speed limit.
B)  tax credits for buying hybrid cars or installing solar panels on houses.
C)  laws that criminalize activities such as drug dealing.
D)  policies that seek to persuade people to prevent forest fires or quit smoking.

Question 12

Outcomes are easier to measure than outputs.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 13

What is the difference between outputs and outcomes of the policy system?

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In the context of a policy system, outpu...

Question 14

Policy goals are often unclear, so that many people might support a policy because of their perception of the policy's goals.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 15

Poor causal theory results in

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A)  policy failing to meet its goals or desired outcomes.
B)  a focus on measuring outputs, rather than outcomes.
C)  difficulty in linking outputs to outcomes .
D)  all of the above.

Question 16

Coercive policy tools are generally characterized by

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A)  high compliance, and high administrative costs.
B)  low compliance, and low administrative costs.
C)  high compliance, and low administrative costs.
D)  low compliance, and high administrative costs.

Question 17

Explain why rational-comprehensive decision making would be very difficult to do under "real world" conditions. Explain what those real world conditions and constraints are.

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Rational-comprehensive decision making i...

Question 18

What role does ambiguity play in politics?

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A)  Confuses political actors and voters.
B)  Enables the transformation of individual intentions and action in to collective results and purposes through persuasion and compromise.
C)  Allows politicians to change their policy positions quickly.
D)  Causes iron-triangles to open up.

Question 19

The economic definition of efficiency is

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A)  getting the greatest output a given level of input.
B)  getting a given level of output for a lesser level of input.
C)  both A and B are economic definitions of efficiency.
D)  neither A nor B are economic definitions of efficiency.

Question 20

Explain the difference between "economic" and "political" models in the choice of policy tools.

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Economic models and political models dif...

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What role does ambiguity play in politics?

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Why might the study of policy analysis be considered a "proto-discipline?"

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The bounded rationality decision making model allows decision makers to adjust policies as they learn from their successes and failures.

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The rational actor model includes all of the following assumptions EXCEPT that

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Poor causal theory results in

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What is the difference between outputs and outcomes of the policy system?

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There is a clear distinction between wasteful administrative activity and the services government should be performing.

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Which of the following is a significant critique of cost-benefit analysis?

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Incrementalism describes how policy is made in small steps, rather than in big sweeping changes.

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Which of the following is an explanation of policy failure discussed by Ingram and Mann?

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Explain the difference between "economic" and "political" models in the choice of policy tools.

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When selecting a policy tool, policy designers must consider its political feasibility.

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