Quiz 16 Domestic Policy
1. Which of the following isnotan example of a public policy outcome?
- none of the above; all are public policy outcomes
2. Public Policy____.
- requires multiple actors branches to carry out
3. What are some of the challenges to getting a new public policy considered passed as law?
- recognition that a problem needs solving approval of the elected branches of government.
4. Toll goods differ from public goods in that ________.
- they require the payment of a fee up front
5. Social Security Medicare are notable for their assistance to which group?
- the elderly
6. Setting aside Social Security Medicare, other entitlement programs in the U.S. government ________.
- constitute well under one-quarter of the budget
7. What societal ill are social welfare programs designed to address
- Poverty
8. Which stage of the public policy process includes identification of problems in need of fixing?
- agenda setting
9. Policy analysts seek ________.
- evidence
10. A deficit is ________.
- the annual budget shortfall between revenues expenditures
11. Entitlement (or matory) spending is ________.
- formula-based spending that goes to individual citizens
12. When times are tough economically, what can elected officials do to get the economy moving again?
- either deficit-spend or cut taxes to get more money flowing in the economy
1. Which of the following isnotan example of a public policy outcome?
- none of the above; all are public policy outcomes
2. Public Policy____.
- requires multiple actors branches to carry out
3. What are some of the challenges to getting a new public policy considered passed as law?
- recognition that a problem needs solving approval of the elected branches of government.
4. Toll goods differ from public goods in that ________.
- they require the payment of a fee up front
5. Social Security Medicare are notable for their assistance to which group?
- the elderly
6. Setting aside Social Security Medicare, other entitlement programs in the U.S. government ________.
- constitute well under one-quarter of the budget
7. What societal ill are social welfare programs designed to address
- Poverty
8. Which stage of the public policy process includes identification of problems in need of fixing?
- agenda setting
9. Policy analysts seek ________.
- evidence
10. A deficit is ________.
- the annual budget shortfall between revenues expenditures
11. Entitlement (or matory) spending is ________.
- formula-based spending that goes to individual citizens
12. When times are tough economically, what can elected officials do to get the economy moving again?
- either deficit-spend or cut taxes to get more money flowing in the economy
