Exam 5: Public Problems and Policy Alternatives

______ involves finding solutions to a problem by spontaneously sharing ideas without criticizing or evaluating them.

What are operational measures?

When the government encourages you to buy a home by allowing you to take an interest deduction, it is using which policy instrument?

The case of immigration reform illustrates the importance of ______.

Which of the following illustrates an operational measure of the safety of a community?

What does the gross domestic product (GDP) measure?

What are the advantages of looking at parallel situations?

In an attempt to change the behavior or attitudes of citizens, government leaders often use ______ tools, which refer to making public addresses or speeches to exhort citizens to do something.

Policy tools that are focused on either increasing the availability of a good or reducing the need for that good would be looking at a problem from which perspective?

Provide an example of how an issue can be framed.

Explain the process of conducting a quick survey.

How do policy analysts come up with policy proposals? Describe several methods or approaches that policymakers use to develop policy proposals.

Providing direct payments or benefits to individuals is an example of ______.

Identify different policy design tools.

Identify a particular public policy problem and give an example of an operational measure that reflects it. Explain why your measure is appropriate to that problem.

Cities that use "visioning" exercises to get citizens to think about what they desire for future development in their community are using ______ to compare policy alternatives.

Describe the steps and issues involved in analyzing a problem and why it is difficult.

How is the choice of policy tools determined?

What are capacity-building tools?

What are some of the risks of using quantitative data?