PUP 3002- Exam 3 Quizzes Complete
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What involves policies that reduce the consequences of an attack and falls primarily
within the domain of energy management?
-mitigation
-policing
-protection - ANSWER-mitigation
As much as possible, the defender should protect its most valuable target, then its
second most valuable target, then its third most, and so on. What concept is this an
example of?
-hybridization
-minimax strategy
-strategic adaptation - ANSWER-minimax strategy
In June 2013, ____, an NSA contractor, gave classified documents to journalists,
revealing the extent of the government's data mining programs.
-Edward Snowden
-Mitchell Palmer
-Nicholas Goldwater - ANSWER-Edward Snowden
Emergency response involves three sets of actions: preparation, response, and
-recovery
-retaliation
-prevention - ANSWER-recovery
What is the most important general approach to reducing the moral hazard problem
in electronic surveillance of American citizens?
-Defined standard operating procedures
-Outcome-based incentive schemes
--Careful screening of agents - ANSWER-Defined standard operating procedures
When herbicides and fertilizers from farms wash off and pollute streams, the
agriculture sector is causing what type of market failure?
-Positive externality
-Moral hazard
-Negative externality - ANSWER-Negative externality
An ____ is an action that a principal takes prior to an agent's action to incentivize a
desired behavior.
-ex-post control
-adverse selection
-ex-ante tactic - ANSWER-ex-ante tactic
, The negative Pigouvian tax is a
-command and control regulation.
-subsidy.
-consumption tax. - ANSWER-subsidy
What is an outright ban or limitation on the amount of a given externality that may be
produced?
-negative externality
-positive externality
-output standard - ANSWER-output standard
What refers to the level of support that a citizen assigns to a specific policy?
-Salience
-Direction
-Intensity - ANSWER-Direction
What refers to how strongly a citizen feels about a given issue?
-Salience
-Intensity
-Knowledge - ANSWER-Intensity
What refers to the relative importance of a given issue relative to other issues?
-Intensity
-Salience
-Direction - ANSWER-Salience
What refers to the level of information that a citizen possesses on a specific issue?
-Direction
-Stability
-Knowledge - ANSWER-Knowledge
What is it called when a principal chooses an agent with different preferences?
-moral hazard
-adverse selection
-information asymmetry - ANSWER-Adverse selection
While a citizen may share preferences with a candidate on the environment,
abortion, and health care, they may hold opposing positions on foreign policy,
immigration, and taxation. What is this an example of?
-polarization
-cross-cutting cleavages
-policy windows - ANSWER-cross-cutting cleavages
H-class visas
-allow people to immigrate to avoid oppression or violence
-allow people to immigrate to join their families
-allow people to obtain employment - ANSWER-allow people to obtain employment
The Heckschler-Ohlin theorem tells us that
-countries restrict migration to protect jobs
Answers
What involves policies that reduce the consequences of an attack and falls primarily
within the domain of energy management?
-mitigation
-policing
-protection - ANSWER-mitigation
As much as possible, the defender should protect its most valuable target, then its
second most valuable target, then its third most, and so on. What concept is this an
example of?
-hybridization
-minimax strategy
-strategic adaptation - ANSWER-minimax strategy
In June 2013, ____, an NSA contractor, gave classified documents to journalists,
revealing the extent of the government's data mining programs.
-Edward Snowden
-Mitchell Palmer
-Nicholas Goldwater - ANSWER-Edward Snowden
Emergency response involves three sets of actions: preparation, response, and
-recovery
-retaliation
-prevention - ANSWER-recovery
What is the most important general approach to reducing the moral hazard problem
in electronic surveillance of American citizens?
-Defined standard operating procedures
-Outcome-based incentive schemes
--Careful screening of agents - ANSWER-Defined standard operating procedures
When herbicides and fertilizers from farms wash off and pollute streams, the
agriculture sector is causing what type of market failure?
-Positive externality
-Moral hazard
-Negative externality - ANSWER-Negative externality
An ____ is an action that a principal takes prior to an agent's action to incentivize a
desired behavior.
-ex-post control
-adverse selection
-ex-ante tactic - ANSWER-ex-ante tactic
, The negative Pigouvian tax is a
-command and control regulation.
-subsidy.
-consumption tax. - ANSWER-subsidy
What is an outright ban or limitation on the amount of a given externality that may be
produced?
-negative externality
-positive externality
-output standard - ANSWER-output standard
What refers to the level of support that a citizen assigns to a specific policy?
-Salience
-Direction
-Intensity - ANSWER-Direction
What refers to how strongly a citizen feels about a given issue?
-Salience
-Intensity
-Knowledge - ANSWER-Intensity
What refers to the relative importance of a given issue relative to other issues?
-Intensity
-Salience
-Direction - ANSWER-Salience
What refers to the level of information that a citizen possesses on a specific issue?
-Direction
-Stability
-Knowledge - ANSWER-Knowledge
What is it called when a principal chooses an agent with different preferences?
-moral hazard
-adverse selection
-information asymmetry - ANSWER-Adverse selection
While a citizen may share preferences with a candidate on the environment,
abortion, and health care, they may hold opposing positions on foreign policy,
immigration, and taxation. What is this an example of?
-polarization
-cross-cutting cleavages
-policy windows - ANSWER-cross-cutting cleavages
H-class visas
-allow people to immigrate to avoid oppression or violence
-allow people to immigrate to join their families
-allow people to obtain employment - ANSWER-allow people to obtain employment
The Heckschler-Ohlin theorem tells us that
-countries restrict migration to protect jobs
