Consists of government's choices of action intended to serve the public purposes.
What is Public Policy? (pg. 137)
100
The process of applying public policy to target populations and situations, and achieving its objectives.
What is Implementation? (pg. 319)
100
A model that divides the stages of policy making into a sequence of activities.
What is Policy Cycle? (pg. 138)
100
The process of identifying and measuring the results of a policy's implementation and judging whether and how well its objectives were or are being met.
What is Evaluation? (pg. 327)
100
A person who is authorized by a federal or state law to act on the public's behalf possesses this.
What is Legal Authority? (pg. 153)
200
Law enacted by Congress, state legislatures, and local boards and councils.
What is Statutory Law? (pg. 137)
200
The three levels of meaning for a public policy.
What is Policy-In-Intention, Policy-In-Implementation, and Policy-In-Experience? (pg. 321)
200
Setting agendas, defining problems, setting objectives, and discerning alternatives.
What are the first Four steps of policy making? (pg. 139).
200
This is essential for communication flow and knowing what past allocations have accomplished.
What are examples of Benefits of Evaluation? (pg. 327)
200
A charismatic person is able to have this effect on his or her peers. In other words, persuasiveness, special information that others respect, or drawing others' sympathy are examples of this.
What is influence? (pg. 153)
300
Items that government leaders rank as high priorities for action.
What is Institutional Agendas? (pg.139)
300
The failure of subordinates to carry out directives precisely as the superior intended.
What is Authority Leakage? (pg. 323)
300
A word that indicates that participants end the process without a full examination of every possible alternative.
What is Satisfice? (pg. 145)
300
A further choice of policy evaluation is to take a ___________ or ___________ approach.
What are Summative or Formative? (pg. 331)
300
This model portrays a close three-way relationship between an administrative agency, one or more private interest groups, and legislative committees.
What is the Iron Triangle? (pg. 154)
400
A perceived gap between a current and a preferred situation.
What is a problem? (pg.140)
400
This identifies key indicators of social, economic, and environmental conditions; measures the current status of those indicators; and sets goals to attain or best practices to follow.
What is Benchmarking? (pg.338)
400
The last four stages of policy making.
What are Assessing Alternatives, Choosing Alternatives, Implementing the Policy, and Monitoring Evaluating? (pg. 139)
400
Program effectiveness, efficiency, legality, responsiveness, technical standards, equity, and political acceptance are examples of this.
What is Criteria for Evaluation? (pg. 333-334)
400
Public officials, interest groups, and private citizens focused on shared policy concerns and who may agree or disagree on goals are examples of these.
What is Issue Networks? (pg.154)
500
Law that consists of legislative statutes, executive orders of presidents and governors.
What is Administrative Law? (pg. 149)
500
If the study enables the researcher to confidently explain the causes of the findings within a program's context, it is said to have "this."
What is Internal Validity? (pg. 331)
500
The public is most interested in this type of agenda.
What is Popular Agenda? (pg. 138).
500
Lack of knowledge or awareness, cause unintended conflict, or easily failed with lack of communications are all example of this.
What are Challenges to Implementation and Evaluation? (pg. 340-341)
500
Controlling the institutional agendas and defining the problems and alternatives prevailing over others in a current conflict; possessing the resources to prevail in anticipated conflicts; and controlling institutions are ways that administrators can gain "this."