PUP 3002 Test 1 Questions with
Complete Answers
Analysts suggest that government may act slowly by doing things like requiring 90
day
comment periods before regulations pass
A: to spend as much taxpayer money as possible
B: because bureaucrats are naturally slow workers and cannot accomplish things
quickly
C: to enable political coalitions the time to muster arguments to protect their
preferred
policy positions - ANSWER-C
Policy evaluation is
A: the systematic effects of a policy that's been implemented on its intended target
B: the same thing as program evaluation
C: seldom accomplished because governments prefer not to know whether things
work - ANSWER-A
A policy model is
A: a precise statement of the causal relationships that link policy inputs with a policy
output
of interests
B: really considered in public policy scholarship due to the imprecise nature of
models in the
social sciences
C: a simplified expression of the causal relationships that link policy inputs with a
policy output of interest - ANSWER-C
A causal relationship exists when a change occurs due to the relationship between
an
A: policy and a program
B: input and output
C: effect and a cause - ANSWER-B
One important element of a good model of public policy is
A: non-replicability
B: ideologically neutrality
C: obfuscation - ANSWER-B
Game theory is
A: the only way to study how people choose
B: identical to decision theory
C: a tool to study strategic decision making - ANSWER-C
, Robert Axelrod's computer experiment tournament that had people submit solutions
to
prisoner's dilemmas that led to the creation of the Tit-for-Tat solution that suggests
that
A: there is no optimal strategy
B: defection is the best strategy
C: cooperation is the best strategy - ANSWER-C
A discount factor is
A: a measure of how people discount past benefits relative to current ones
B: a measure of how people discount future benefits relative to current ones
C: something used to determine how much you must pay for an item - ANSWER-B
A rational person is assumed to be
A: one who makes moral decisions
B: self interested
C: communitarian - ANSWER-B
One outcome of monitoring to encourage cooperation between two parties is
A: there are costs associated with monitoring
B: enforcement will be error prone
C: the parties being monitored will accept the monitoring - ANSWER-A
Free-riding exists where
A: people are forced to join a group like a union
B: people sneak on the bus
C: an individual knows that he or she may be able to enjoy the benefits that a group
provides without joining that group - ANSWER-C
The assumptions of game theory
A: suggest that people do not have free will
B: are the same in every game
C: are often criticized for being unrealistic - ANSWER-C
Free-riding problems increase as groups
A: get smaller.
B: have more diffuse goals.
C: get larger. - ANSWER-C
Some observers suggest that people have a _________ are more likely to become
involved
in crime
A: small head
B: low discount factor
C: University of Miami t-shirt - ANSWER-B
Internalized norms encourage cooperation among people because non-cooperation
imposes a
A: psychological cost on them
B: physical burden on them
Complete Answers
Analysts suggest that government may act slowly by doing things like requiring 90
day
comment periods before regulations pass
A: to spend as much taxpayer money as possible
B: because bureaucrats are naturally slow workers and cannot accomplish things
quickly
C: to enable political coalitions the time to muster arguments to protect their
preferred
policy positions - ANSWER-C
Policy evaluation is
A: the systematic effects of a policy that's been implemented on its intended target
B: the same thing as program evaluation
C: seldom accomplished because governments prefer not to know whether things
work - ANSWER-A
A policy model is
A: a precise statement of the causal relationships that link policy inputs with a policy
output
of interests
B: really considered in public policy scholarship due to the imprecise nature of
models in the
social sciences
C: a simplified expression of the causal relationships that link policy inputs with a
policy output of interest - ANSWER-C
A causal relationship exists when a change occurs due to the relationship between
an
A: policy and a program
B: input and output
C: effect and a cause - ANSWER-B
One important element of a good model of public policy is
A: non-replicability
B: ideologically neutrality
C: obfuscation - ANSWER-B
Game theory is
A: the only way to study how people choose
B: identical to decision theory
C: a tool to study strategic decision making - ANSWER-C
, Robert Axelrod's computer experiment tournament that had people submit solutions
to
prisoner's dilemmas that led to the creation of the Tit-for-Tat solution that suggests
that
A: there is no optimal strategy
B: defection is the best strategy
C: cooperation is the best strategy - ANSWER-C
A discount factor is
A: a measure of how people discount past benefits relative to current ones
B: a measure of how people discount future benefits relative to current ones
C: something used to determine how much you must pay for an item - ANSWER-B
A rational person is assumed to be
A: one who makes moral decisions
B: self interested
C: communitarian - ANSWER-B
One outcome of monitoring to encourage cooperation between two parties is
A: there are costs associated with monitoring
B: enforcement will be error prone
C: the parties being monitored will accept the monitoring - ANSWER-A
Free-riding exists where
A: people are forced to join a group like a union
B: people sneak on the bus
C: an individual knows that he or she may be able to enjoy the benefits that a group
provides without joining that group - ANSWER-C
The assumptions of game theory
A: suggest that people do not have free will
B: are the same in every game
C: are often criticized for being unrealistic - ANSWER-C
Free-riding problems increase as groups
A: get smaller.
B: have more diffuse goals.
C: get larger. - ANSWER-C
Some observers suggest that people have a _________ are more likely to become
involved
in crime
A: small head
B: low discount factor
C: University of Miami t-shirt - ANSWER-B
Internalized norms encourage cooperation among people because non-cooperation
imposes a
A: psychological cost on them
B: physical burden on them
