CH 1
This Commission established by the post-apartheid government of South Africa is seen as a vehicle to apply principles of restorative justice, a model for other countries to emulate, and a tool to repair harm and restore social bonds And was the world’s first one.
What is the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC)?
The “neo-conservative” approach to government is most characteristic of this American political party.
What is the Republican Party?
The practice that focuses on changing policy is this.
What is policy practice?
Europe’s first Social Security program was established in this country.
What is Germany?
The Federal Poverty Threshold is based on the expectation that a family will spend about this percentage of it’s income on food.
What is 1/3 (Or 33%)?
Members of the United Nations General Assembly were inspired to adopt the Universal Declaration of Human Rights because of this genocidal tragedy.
What is the Holocaust?
In the legislature, a “mark-up” session is held at this time.
What is after a committee has held hearings on a bill?
An advocate who relies on careful and accurate analysis uses this.
What is logos? (Thinking)
Of Survivor’s insurance, Medical insurance, Disability coverage, or all of these, what did the originally formulated US Social Security Act NOT include?
What is all of these?
Those who argue that the Federal poverty threshold ____ hardship say the multiplier used to determine the threshold as three times the cost of food is too low, the Economy Food Plan requires too much knowledge and effort to implement, and it is not based on the long-term needs of a family.
What is underestimates hardship?
The four components of social justice according to David Miller.
What are need, desert, rights, and equality?
These programs allow the Federal government to extend its authority over social programs.
What are Federal grant-in-aid programs?
When an advocate testifies before her state legislature and begins by telling a story about someone who was affected by the policy under debate, she is using this.
What is pathos? (Feelings)
What are Social Security (programs)?
The number 1 argument of those who feel the Federal poverty threshold overestimates hardship is this.
The threshold should take into account the in-kind benefits received by the poor.
Robert Nozick argued that inequality is not necessarily unjust, and this viewpoint is an example of the following perspective.
What is Libertarian?
These only occur in the (US) Senate and are legislative tactics used by those in the minority to disrupt action on bills they oppose.
What are filibusters?
Process, implementation, and impact are three methods of this type of analysis and the one used is determined by the question addressed.
What is policy analysis?
Prior to the passage of this Act, US workers could both rely on their savings in retire and purchase disability and medical insurance from private companies, but often poor people, those employed by smaller companies, and those who were under or unemployed had no retirement, medical, or disability coverage.
What is the Social Security Act?
What is human capital?
It does not tell us exactly what a just society would look like and that it treats justice more as a process than as a goal.
How is a post-modern approach to defining social justice is distinct from a modern approach?
The Speaker of the House has he power to influence a bill’s vote by doing this.
What is deciding which committee will hear the bill?
A _____ definition of need tends to favor both those who are able to express their needs and those represented by effective advocates.
What is “demand-based”?
Social Security benefits were extended to dependents and survivors during this President’s second term.
Who was Franklin D. Roosevelt?
This is the reason President Andrew Johnson opposed the continued operation of the Freedman’s Bureau.
What is he believed it to be unconstitutional?