Policy Making Process
Social Welfare Policy
Economic Policy
Environment
Foreign Policy
100
Phase of the policy-making process in which attention is brought to issues by interest groups, citizens, or the media
What is agenda setting?
100
A controversial point on education policy is whether or not to take funds from public schools to help pay for poor children to attend private schools. These payments are called ______________.
What are vouchers?
100
Repeated budget deficits, have led to a very high national _________.
What is debt?
100
The name of the agency that regulates air and water quality is _________
What is the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency)?
100
The ratification of a treaty occurs in the __________ with a ___________majority
What is Senate with a 2/3 Majority?
200
This phase of the policy-making process involves investigation and research, often at the Congressional committee level
What is policy formulation?
200
"Obamacare" is controversial because of the so-called _________ ___________ which requires everyone to be insured.
What is individual mandate?
200
The policy of regulating the economy with taxes and spending, which is controlled by Congress and the President, and which strives to keep money in circulation is called ____________.
What is fiscal policy?
200
The major political party that tends to be more sensitive to environmental concerns is ________________.
What is the Democratic party?
200
This is a way for a President to make a treaty with another nation that does not require ratification. It is only in force during that President's time in office.
What is an executive agreement?
300
Policy adoption occurs when Congress ____________.
What is passes legislation?
300
_______________ programs, from which people get benefits because of a certain quality, ie, being age 67, etc. form the greatest portion of the federal budget, and are difficult to cut.
What is entitlement?
300
The ______________ _____________ ______________ regulates monetary policy (money supply) by raising and lowering interest rates, reserve requirements and conducting open market activities (buying and selling bonds).
What is the Federal Reserve Board?
300
Name an action that promotes a carbon-based energy resource to achieve energy independence.
What is drilling off shore, or drilling in ANWAR, or fracking (any one of the three).
300
The House is the part of Congress more likely to play a role in foreign policy. (T/F)
What is false.
400
An example of this phase of the policy making process occurs when an agency in the executive branch receives the task after legislation has passed, and takes steps to ensure that the policy is followed.
What is policy implementation?
400
____________ replaced AFDC, and relies on a block grant approach to achieve the federal goal of getting people off welfare rolls and back to work
What is TANF (Temporary Aid to Needy Families; Welfare Reform Act of 1996)?
400
The ___________ _____________ _____________ helps Congress analyze financial programs and economic data as it evaluates the President's budget.
What is the Congressional Budget Office?
400
_______________ sites such as Love Canal and Three Mile Island have toxic pollution such as radio-active waste, and require expensive clean-up.
What Superfund sites?
400
International trade is a major area of foreign policy. What is the international trade regulatory agency created during the Clinton Adminsitration?
What is the World Trade Organization?
500
An example of this phase of the policy making process is when Congress has hearings, makes modifications and then re-authorizes the Farm Bill.
What is policy evaluation?
500
__________, President G W Bush's education program requiring testing to be sure all students can read by grade 3, was followed up with ____________, President Obama's competitive grants based program of educational reform. It required teacher evaluations to include test scores.
What are NCLB (No Child Left Behind) and RTTT (Race to the Top)?
500
Fill in with an example of an action that can be taken to combat recession: Fiscal or Monetary Policy ___________; Action _______________;Who takes/controls this action_____________________.
What is (any of the following is possible) Fiscal -- Congress/President: lower taxes or increase government spending Monetary -- Federal Reserve Board: lower interest rate, or reserve requirement; buy bonds on the open market.
500
______________ ____________________ -- a free-market solution to regulating emissions that allows companies to buy and sell pollution credits
What is carbon trading (or carbon offsets)?
500
Name three members of the National Security Council, which is located in the EOP
What is president vice president secretaries of state and defense, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Director of the CIA and the President's National Security Advisor?
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