PUP3002 Midterm Exam Questions
with Complete Solutions
Normative Statement - ANSWER-- expresses a value judgment about whether
something is desirable
- is subjective
- "should"
- not falsifiable
Empirical Statement - ANSWER-- expresses a fact about the state of the world
- is objective
- "if, then" statements
- hypotheses; falsifiable
- some aren't true, but can be tested
Values
Types of Values - ANSWER-- Individual Liberty
- Communitarianism
- Civic duty/patriotism
- Effectiveness
- Efficiency
- Equity of Policy Delivery & Policy Outcomes
- Accountability
- Feasibility
Deontological Ethics - ANSWER-- theories of action based on duty or moral
obligation
- an action is judged by its intrinsic rightness and not by the extent to which it serves
as an instrumentality in furthering one's goals or aspirations
- judging if it's inherently the right or wrong thing to do/not do
- individual liberty, communitarianism, civic duty/patriotism
Teleological Ethics - ANSWER-- an action is judged by the extent to which the action
has instrumental value in providing advancement toward a desirable end
- if an action is instrumental in yielding a desirable end, then generally the action
itself is ethical
- evaluation based upon what happens b/c of the policy
- consequentialism / instrumentalism
- effectiveness, efficiency, equity, accountability, feasibility
The Policymaking Process
7 Stages - ANSWER-- Problem and Solution Identification
- Agenda Setting
, - Policy Formulation
- Alternative Formulation
- Policy Selection and Adoption
- Policy Implementation
- Policy Evaluation
Problem/Solution Identification
Social problems identified by:
Choosing a solution to address the problem done by _________
Stakeholders - ANSWER-- Policy image; problem framing
- Magnitude and importance
- Cause (Proximate or Ultimate)
- Policy Entrepreneurs: people who feel passionately about a problem and work
constantly to make new policy to do something about the problem, or at least put it
on the public radar
- a set of individuals whose interests are at stake or affected by a given policy
Proximate Cause
Ultimate (Systemic) Cause - ANSWER-- immediate; surface thoughts; viewed as
being the most important; simpler to solve
- more in depth; what caused this in the first place?; viewed as being the most
difficult to address and pass
Agenda Setting
Policy Window
3 Streams
Advocacy Coalitions
Factors that Affect - ANSWER-- the process by which formal institutional centers of
power will take up and potentially act on a policy situation
- an opportunity in time where political and policy pressures align momentarily to
allow some set of policy problems and solutions to meet; opening sparks an actual
policy change
- Problem Stream: The identification of an issue or problem
- Policy Stream: produces short list of proposals but this is not consensus rather it is
agreement that certain proposals are prominent; The major driving forces here are
the interest groups who are committed to a particular policy change.
with Complete Solutions
Normative Statement - ANSWER-- expresses a value judgment about whether
something is desirable
- is subjective
- "should"
- not falsifiable
Empirical Statement - ANSWER-- expresses a fact about the state of the world
- is objective
- "if, then" statements
- hypotheses; falsifiable
- some aren't true, but can be tested
Values
Types of Values - ANSWER-- Individual Liberty
- Communitarianism
- Civic duty/patriotism
- Effectiveness
- Efficiency
- Equity of Policy Delivery & Policy Outcomes
- Accountability
- Feasibility
Deontological Ethics - ANSWER-- theories of action based on duty or moral
obligation
- an action is judged by its intrinsic rightness and not by the extent to which it serves
as an instrumentality in furthering one's goals or aspirations
- judging if it's inherently the right or wrong thing to do/not do
- individual liberty, communitarianism, civic duty/patriotism
Teleological Ethics - ANSWER-- an action is judged by the extent to which the action
has instrumental value in providing advancement toward a desirable end
- if an action is instrumental in yielding a desirable end, then generally the action
itself is ethical
- evaluation based upon what happens b/c of the policy
- consequentialism / instrumentalism
- effectiveness, efficiency, equity, accountability, feasibility
The Policymaking Process
7 Stages - ANSWER-- Problem and Solution Identification
- Agenda Setting
, - Policy Formulation
- Alternative Formulation
- Policy Selection and Adoption
- Policy Implementation
- Policy Evaluation
Problem/Solution Identification
Social problems identified by:
Choosing a solution to address the problem done by _________
Stakeholders - ANSWER-- Policy image; problem framing
- Magnitude and importance
- Cause (Proximate or Ultimate)
- Policy Entrepreneurs: people who feel passionately about a problem and work
constantly to make new policy to do something about the problem, or at least put it
on the public radar
- a set of individuals whose interests are at stake or affected by a given policy
Proximate Cause
Ultimate (Systemic) Cause - ANSWER-- immediate; surface thoughts; viewed as
being the most important; simpler to solve
- more in depth; what caused this in the first place?; viewed as being the most
difficult to address and pass
Agenda Setting
Policy Window
3 Streams
Advocacy Coalitions
Factors that Affect - ANSWER-- the process by which formal institutional centers of
power will take up and potentially act on a policy situation
- an opportunity in time where political and policy pressures align momentarily to
allow some set of policy problems and solutions to meet; opening sparks an actual
policy change
- Problem Stream: The identification of an issue or problem
- Policy Stream: produces short list of proposals but this is not consensus rather it is
agreement that certain proposals are prominent; The major driving forces here are
the interest groups who are committed to a particular policy change.
