Exam 6: What Lies Behind Policy: Questions of Justice and Effectiveness

Your text suggests that the right to survive, the right to free speech and the right to privacy are a category of rights designated _______________________________.

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An "effective" policy is defined in your text as the one that gives the state and the people of the state the greatest _______________ at the least cost.

If a policy must distribute benefits unevenly (to any degree), your text raises the very real dilemma turning on the basis for differentiating. This requires government to settle on one of two criteria: either on the basis of contributions or on the basis of ________________.

Need-based scholarships, water pollution, children as an externality, and gender-based pensions are used in the text as examples of the state's use of _____________.