Institutional Concerns
refers to the various bits of information available on the problem, whom it affects, and in what ways.
Problem Stream
When the Environmental Protection Agency adopts regulations that force power plants to take into consideration the actual costs to deal with pollution and the health problems it causes, what type of market failure is the EPA addressing?
Information Failure
A reference used in policy analysis whereby a highly preferable or ideal goal or solution to a problem might be set.
Ideal Situation
An examination of components of public policy or “the study of the causes and consequences of policy decisions” is referred to as:
Policy Analysis
Federal subsidies that are only given to dairy farmers who own more than one hundred cows may raise concerns about the _ _ of the policy
equity
refers to a crisis that improves an issue’s chance of getting on the agenda in part because of the exceptional media coverage it receives.
Focusing Event
Education is often cited as something that benefits more than just the person getting the education; it benefits society in a number of other ways. This is called:
Positive Externality.
Refers to how public policy specialists will attempt to find similarities in a related policy area to address a problem.
Parallel Situation
____ refers to the ability of a government to address its problems effectively through public policy.
Policy Capacity
The policy instrument of _____ refers to government attempts to convey important information to citizens in order to influence their behavior.
Education
Refers to the government being excessively deferential to groups, treating virtually all pressure group demands as legitimate and seeing the job of government as to advance them all.
Hyper Pluralism
________ is our system of government, in which the federal government shares authority with states and local governments in areas of public policy.
Federalism
refers to an in-group small setting, individuals are encouraged to think of possible solutions without imposing constraints on the discussion or criticizing ideas as they are offered.
Brainstorming
In what stage of the Policy Process Model do policy actors attempt to get an issue seriously considered for public action?
Policy Evaluation
Which of the policy typologies identified by Lowi refers to the situation in which government spends money to provide grants or programs without regard to where the money will come from to pay for it?
Distributive
is a goal of economic policy generally defined as the lowest level of unemployment that can be sustained in light of the structure of the overall economy.
Full employment
In the past, the policy-making relationship between states and the federal government was called _ ___, since there was clear separation of policy responsibility between the two levels
dual federalism
refers to a policy alternative that considers the advantage or disadvantages of taking no new action and thus keeping a current policy in place.
No-Action Analysis
In what stage of the Policy Process Model do we observe money spent, regulations adopted, and the policy carried out
Policy Implementation
The authority of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to issue radio and television broadcasting licenses is an example of a ____ policy.
Regulatory
The dynamic of partisans in the country becoming ideologically different from one another—Democrats more liberal and Republicans more conservative.
Partisan Polarization
_____ are federal requirements placed upon state governments without any financial support for implementation.
Unfunded mandate
refers to talking with people in a particular policy network or searching through transcripts, minutes of meetings, newspaper accounts, and the like for pertinent information about a problem an policy alternatives.
Quick Survey
Refers to the careful consideration during the policy formulation stage of the role of government “agents” and the “target population” – those who receive benefits or who are the objects of government regulation.
Policy Design
These types of policies have "winners" and "losers.” In other words, some groups benefit at the expense of others
Redistributive