PSCI 2305 Final Exam questions with
answers
What is the role of the precinct in Texas? - CORRECT ANSWERS
✔✔to connect district- and state-level party organizations to their
members
Why is policy change usually a very slow process? - CORRECT
ANSWERS ✔✔Multiple stakeholders, each with different values,
must all agree on the policy.
In which of the following ways does an incumbent almost always
have an advantage over a challenger? - CORRECT ANSWERS
✔✔raising money
What is a think tank? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔a nonprofit
organization staffed by policy analysts
A distributive policy is one that does what? - CORRECT ANSWERS
✔✔uses general tax dollars to fund state governments
What model of public policy dominates today? - CORRECT
ANSWERS ✔✔pluralist
, What kind of taxation involves high-income people paying a higher
percentage of their income in taxes? - CORRECT ANSWERS
✔✔progressive taxation
What executive department is responsible for overseeing diplomacy?
- CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔the Department of State
What do Texas election judges do? - CORRECT ANSWERS
✔✔preside over polling places to ensure ballot security
What trend generally occurs when one party is dominant in a state
over an extended period of time? - CORRECT ANSWERS
✔✔Divisions within the dominant party become more important
than divisions between the parties.
What is the Sunset review process? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔the
means by which the legislature takes a long-term view of agency
performance and utility
What is the second stage of the policymaking process? - CORRECT
ANSWERS ✔✔formulation
answers
What is the role of the precinct in Texas? - CORRECT ANSWERS
✔✔to connect district- and state-level party organizations to their
members
Why is policy change usually a very slow process? - CORRECT
ANSWERS ✔✔Multiple stakeholders, each with different values,
must all agree on the policy.
In which of the following ways does an incumbent almost always
have an advantage over a challenger? - CORRECT ANSWERS
✔✔raising money
What is a think tank? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔a nonprofit
organization staffed by policy analysts
A distributive policy is one that does what? - CORRECT ANSWERS
✔✔uses general tax dollars to fund state governments
What model of public policy dominates today? - CORRECT
ANSWERS ✔✔pluralist
, What kind of taxation involves high-income people paying a higher
percentage of their income in taxes? - CORRECT ANSWERS
✔✔progressive taxation
What executive department is responsible for overseeing diplomacy?
- CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔the Department of State
What do Texas election judges do? - CORRECT ANSWERS
✔✔preside over polling places to ensure ballot security
What trend generally occurs when one party is dominant in a state
over an extended period of time? - CORRECT ANSWERS
✔✔Divisions within the dominant party become more important
than divisions between the parties.
What is the Sunset review process? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔the
means by which the legislature takes a long-term view of agency
performance and utility
What is the second stage of the policymaking process? - CORRECT
ANSWERS ✔✔formulation
