PUP 3002: Exam 1 Review UPDATED
ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS
Public Policy - CORRECT ANSWER Government action designed to address the demands of a
set of citizens to resolve a social issue
Study of Public Policy - CORRECT ANSWER The systematic, scientific analysis of
government activity, including laws, regulations and funding priorities, and its influence on society
Accountability, Efficiency gains,
Equity of Policy Delivery - CORRECT ANSWER Three reasons we study public policy:
Accountability - CORRECT ANSWER The interests that the government is providing for
The citizens providing consent to having a government - CORRECT ANSWER A successful
democracy needs...
Policy Efficiency - CORRECT ANSWER Whether the resources, time, and energy of a policy
are delivering the greatest policy outcomes, for a given level of resources
Cost less, Provide more, Both - CORRECT ANSWER Three ways to improve policy:
Equity - CORRECT ANSWER The extent to which a government delivers the benefits of a
policy evenly across all communities
Federalism - CORRECT ANSWER System of shared powers in which the state governments
shifted some of their original powers to the national government and in which local governments
receive charters from the state
Everyone in the democracy has different interests, opinions, and wants for what and how their country
should be made up - CORRECT ANSWER The reason a democracy makes policymaking
difficult...
, Policy Making Process - CORRECT ANSWER A heuristic demonstrating the pathways by
which policies are identified, proposed, evaluated, implemented, and terminated; proposed by Harold
Laswell
7 Stages of the Policy Making Process - CORRECT ANSWER 1. Problem and Solution
Identification
2. Agenda Setting
3. Policy Formation
4. Alternative Formulation
5. Policy Selection and Adoption
6. Policy Implementation
7. Policy Evaluation
Stakeholders - CORRECT ANSWER Those who are identified by a policy problem
Policy Demands - CORRECT ANSWER The demands exerted by stakeholders on the political
actors
Credible Action - CORRECT ANSWER The mechanism by which demands pressure leaders
The Policy Entrepreneur - CORRECT ANSWER Willing to exert time and effort, has a stake in
the solution, and ability to link their preferred solution to the 'problem' of others
Agenda Setting - CORRECT ANSWER The process by which formal institutional centers of
power will take up and potentially act on a policy solution
Preferences of formal actors, Actors external to formal institutions,
External Shocks - CORRECT ANSWER 3 Factors that shape agenda setting
Lower level bureaucrats - CORRECT ANSWER Example of Low Salience & Low Complexity
"Street level politics"
ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS
Public Policy - CORRECT ANSWER Government action designed to address the demands of a
set of citizens to resolve a social issue
Study of Public Policy - CORRECT ANSWER The systematic, scientific analysis of
government activity, including laws, regulations and funding priorities, and its influence on society
Accountability, Efficiency gains,
Equity of Policy Delivery - CORRECT ANSWER Three reasons we study public policy:
Accountability - CORRECT ANSWER The interests that the government is providing for
The citizens providing consent to having a government - CORRECT ANSWER A successful
democracy needs...
Policy Efficiency - CORRECT ANSWER Whether the resources, time, and energy of a policy
are delivering the greatest policy outcomes, for a given level of resources
Cost less, Provide more, Both - CORRECT ANSWER Three ways to improve policy:
Equity - CORRECT ANSWER The extent to which a government delivers the benefits of a
policy evenly across all communities
Federalism - CORRECT ANSWER System of shared powers in which the state governments
shifted some of their original powers to the national government and in which local governments
receive charters from the state
Everyone in the democracy has different interests, opinions, and wants for what and how their country
should be made up - CORRECT ANSWER The reason a democracy makes policymaking
difficult...
, Policy Making Process - CORRECT ANSWER A heuristic demonstrating the pathways by
which policies are identified, proposed, evaluated, implemented, and terminated; proposed by Harold
Laswell
7 Stages of the Policy Making Process - CORRECT ANSWER 1. Problem and Solution
Identification
2. Agenda Setting
3. Policy Formation
4. Alternative Formulation
5. Policy Selection and Adoption
6. Policy Implementation
7. Policy Evaluation
Stakeholders - CORRECT ANSWER Those who are identified by a policy problem
Policy Demands - CORRECT ANSWER The demands exerted by stakeholders on the political
actors
Credible Action - CORRECT ANSWER The mechanism by which demands pressure leaders
The Policy Entrepreneur - CORRECT ANSWER Willing to exert time and effort, has a stake in
the solution, and ability to link their preferred solution to the 'problem' of others
Agenda Setting - CORRECT ANSWER The process by which formal institutional centers of
power will take up and potentially act on a policy solution
Preferences of formal actors, Actors external to formal institutions,
External Shocks - CORRECT ANSWER 3 Factors that shape agenda setting
Lower level bureaucrats - CORRECT ANSWER Example of Low Salience & Low Complexity
"Street level politics"
