PUP 4203 Exam 1 With Complete Solution

PUP 42 03 Exam 1 With Complete Solution Checks and balances - ANSWER disperses power and authority within the federal government among legislative, executive, and judicial institutions the US federal system disperses governmental power by fragmentation authority between national and state governments deep ecology - ANSWER The theory that humans are only a part of nature, and not necessarily the most important part silent spring - ANSWER 1962 book by Rachel Carson about the role of pesticides in the use of the US She documents the adverse use of DDT and the impact on the bald eagle Kathouga River - ANSWER river in Ohio that catches on fire this event leads into the 70s, the environmental decade with Nixon as president this is when a lot of environmental legislation is passed for example Endangered Species Act of 1967 Clean Water Act Clean Air Act Safe Drinking Water Act there has been no major environmental policy since the 1970s punctuated equilibrium - ANSWER most policy change is incremental until something happens and then you get a cascade of change and then it goes back to incremental incremental -> rapid -> incremental deontological - ANSWER values for which we have a moral duty (a categorical imperatives) for their own sake (justify means) deep ecology - ANSWER a set of values (philosophy) look at all sorts of non-human life, so even if some policy might not be effective for humans, all sorts of life have an equivalent more right to exist teleological values don't reflect the right thing to do in terms of human and non-humans a policy is good if all life can thrive individual liberty - ANSWER individuals should have the right to choose for themselves. Public policy is coercive, taking the choices of the individual and putting it in the hands of government communitarianism - ANSWER the ability to choose shouldn't be based in the individual but in the community groups of individuals should be able to decide for themselves what policies they want teleological - ANSWER instrumental values we care about these values in terms of an endpoint effectiveness - ANSWER does an action/policy achieve its desired goal Are waterways cleaner as a result of the Clean Water Act? efficiency - ANSWER at what cost do we achieve the goal, and what are the benefits of that goal equity - ANSWER who bares the most and who gets the benefits If we reduce CO emissions, and we are the only country to do so and no one else does, everyone else would benefit and we would pay the costs accountability - ANSWER are the people making the policies accountable to who the policies effect sustainable - ANSWER not only efficient today anthropocentric - ANSWER centered on humans, from the point of view o f human when we look at the benefits of policy, we look at the benefits of humans Multiple streams - ANSWER Policies, Problems, Politics Changes happen when the conditions are right. Problems - ANSWER a major public event happens and galvanized public attention ex. BP Oil Spill Politics - ANSWER Public Opinion - public policy tends to reflect public opinion Interest Groups - elite theory chorus sings with a deep upper class accent