PUP 3002 FSU exam 1 all 137 solutions
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PUP 3002 FSU exam 1 all 137 solutions
Graded A+
Public Policy - ANSWER Government action designed to address the demands of a set of citizens to
resolve a social issue
The Study of Public Policy:
-The systematic, scientific analysis of government activity, including laws, regulations, and funding
priorities, and its influence on society.
Why study public policy? - ANSWER -Accountability
-Efficiency gains
-Equity of policy delivery
Accountability - ANSWER Whose interests precisely are being served by the government?
Consent of the governed - ANSWER -In order for democracy to succeed, the governed must consent to
the ruling government body.
-In order to consent, citizens must be informed of government actions.
The study of public policy attempts to answer: - ANSWER -The process by which policies are passed and
implemented
-Why specific policies are pursued and why others are not
-How well do government actions fit citizen demands.
Efficiency Gains - ANSWER Policy efficiency
-Whether the resources, time and energy of a policy are delivering the greatest policy outcomes, for a
given level of resources
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Which policies most effectively solve the underlying problem at the lowest cost?
How we can improve policies to:
-cost less
-provide more
-ideally... both!
Equity - ANSWER The extent to which a government delivers the benefits of a policy evenly across all
communities.
Are all communities treated equally or do certain communities benefit disproportionally?
-wealth
-ethnic makeup
-economic class
Federalism - ANSWER -Nation; state; local
-National and state possess constitutions
-Different goals and policy preferences
Executive and legislative competition - ANSWER Executive: president, governor, mayor
Legislative: two houses (at the national and state level)
-Goals and policy preferences often vary between branches
-Often, varying goals and preferences between members of legislative
Judiciary - ANSWER -National, state and local all possess an array of criminal, civil and administrative
courts
-Prosecute violations of executive and legislative
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Democracy vs. Autocracy - ANSWER -Democracy makes policymaking difficult
-Competing interests, institutional barriers, and public opinion make solving societal problems tedious
and costly
-Likely better than the autocracy
-Citizens have control over government
-Governments must appease citizens to stay in power
The policy making process - ANSWER -Proposed by Harold Laswell (1951)
-A heuristic demonstrating the pathways by which policies are identified, proposed, evaluated,
implemented and terminated.
-7 stages
The 7 stages of the policy making process - ANSWER 1. problem and solution identification
2. agenda setting
3. policy formulation
4. alternative formulation
5. policy selection and adoption
6. policy implementation
7. policy evaluation
Step 1: problem and solution identification - ANSWER -How do social issues become defined as social
problems?
-Once social issues have been defined as social problems, how are solutions to those problems
identified?
-Stakeholders
-Policy demands
-Credible action
-Who gets what is determined by pressure
Graded A+
PUP 3002 FSU exam 1 all 137 solutions
Graded A+
Public Policy - ANSWER Government action designed to address the demands of a set of citizens to
resolve a social issue
The Study of Public Policy:
-The systematic, scientific analysis of government activity, including laws, regulations, and funding
priorities, and its influence on society.
Why study public policy? - ANSWER -Accountability
-Efficiency gains
-Equity of policy delivery
Accountability - ANSWER Whose interests precisely are being served by the government?
Consent of the governed - ANSWER -In order for democracy to succeed, the governed must consent to
the ruling government body.
-In order to consent, citizens must be informed of government actions.
The study of public policy attempts to answer: - ANSWER -The process by which policies are passed and
implemented
-Why specific policies are pursued and why others are not
-How well do government actions fit citizen demands.
Efficiency Gains - ANSWER Policy efficiency
-Whether the resources, time and energy of a policy are delivering the greatest policy outcomes, for a
given level of resources
,PUP 3002 FSU exam 1 all 137 solutions
Graded A+
Which policies most effectively solve the underlying problem at the lowest cost?
How we can improve policies to:
-cost less
-provide more
-ideally... both!
Equity - ANSWER The extent to which a government delivers the benefits of a policy evenly across all
communities.
Are all communities treated equally or do certain communities benefit disproportionally?
-wealth
-ethnic makeup
-economic class
Federalism - ANSWER -Nation; state; local
-National and state possess constitutions
-Different goals and policy preferences
Executive and legislative competition - ANSWER Executive: president, governor, mayor
Legislative: two houses (at the national and state level)
-Goals and policy preferences often vary between branches
-Often, varying goals and preferences between members of legislative
Judiciary - ANSWER -National, state and local all possess an array of criminal, civil and administrative
courts
-Prosecute violations of executive and legislative
, PUP 3002 FSU exam 1 all 137 solutions
Graded A+
Democracy vs. Autocracy - ANSWER -Democracy makes policymaking difficult
-Competing interests, institutional barriers, and public opinion make solving societal problems tedious
and costly
-Likely better than the autocracy
-Citizens have control over government
-Governments must appease citizens to stay in power
The policy making process - ANSWER -Proposed by Harold Laswell (1951)
-A heuristic demonstrating the pathways by which policies are identified, proposed, evaluated,
implemented and terminated.
-7 stages
The 7 stages of the policy making process - ANSWER 1. problem and solution identification
2. agenda setting
3. policy formulation
4. alternative formulation
5. policy selection and adoption
6. policy implementation
7. policy evaluation
Step 1: problem and solution identification - ANSWER -How do social issues become defined as social
problems?
-Once social issues have been defined as social problems, how are solutions to those problems
identified?
-Stakeholders
-Policy demands
-Credible action
-Who gets what is determined by pressure
