Vocabulary
What is the total amount the government owes across all year?
A broad strategy the government uses to do its job.
What is public policy?
This political group believes government involvement in society and the economy should be minimized to increase efficiency.
Who are libertarians?
What is a formula-based, health insurance program, which means beneficiaries must demonstrate they fall within a particular income category?
What is Medicaid?
This organization, which primarily represents seniors, supported a Republican Medicare prescription drug plan in 2002 despite its alignment with Democratic goals.
What is AARP?
The annual amount by which expenditures are greater than the revenues?
What is deficit?
TRUE OR FALSE: Public policy deals with issues of concern to some large segment of society.
TRUE.
This phenomenon describes the depletion of a shared resource when individuals act according to their immediate self-interest.
What is the tragedy of the commons?
What policy creates an automatic stimulus for a society by building a safety net that can catch members of society who are suffering economic hardship through no fault of their own?
What is Social Welfare Policy?
In this first stage of the public policy process, issues are identified and framed to merit discussion.
What is agenda setting?
A program that guarantees benefits to members of a specific group or segment of the population.
What is entitlement?
Public policy is defined as this broad governmental strategy to address matters of concern to society
What is a guide to legislative action?
These are the two questions policymakers must always consider when determining the distribution of public goods.
What are "Who pays the costs?" and "Who receives the benefits?"
What is one of the oldest and largest pieces of social welfare policy?
What is Social Security?
The second subphase of agenda setting, known as __________, considers potential solutions to a problem identified by policymakers.
What is alternative specification?
What is the government spending that Congress must pass legislation to authorize each year?
What is discretionary spending?
Refusing to change laws even when public opinion shifts, like Congress's inaction on gun safety reforms, exemplifies this form of policymaking.
What is policymaking through inaction?
Theodore Lowi categorized public policy based on whether costs and benefits were this.
What are concentrated or diffused?
What is one of the largest recipients of government aid to business?
What is Agriculture/Energy?
This type of policy implementation allows local areas flexibility to address challenges and meet specific needs.
What is bottom-up implementation?