Exam 16: Core Democratic Principles and Public Policy

The second stage of the policymaking process, wherein government considers the various alternatives to the issue at hand and formally approves a particular alternative, is

All of the following are things that can complicate policy implementation EXCEPT:

Policy evaluations can take which of the following forms?

The decision making approach in which policy makers ignore last year's spending levels and begin current year budgeting from scratch, justifying every single dollar of proposed spending is called

Herbert Simon's concept of "bounded rationality" asserts that decision making will never be perfectly rational because decision makers never have

The rational-comprehensive decision-making approach involves considering all possible alternatives to a problem or issue and choosing the one with

The evaluations of policy analysts can never be truly objective.

As a purely reactive branch of government, the courts play no role in agenda setting.

Which of the following groups is most likely to successfully gain agenda access in the United States?

Public policy making frequently brings our core principles of democracy into conflict with one another.

The surest way to ensure that a policy will not be adopted is to

The third stage of the policymaking process, in which the government translates approved policy alternatives into action, is

Which of the following is a formal proof that no decision-making system can guarantee that the rank-ordered preferences of a group will reflect the rank-ordered preferences of the set of rational individuals who make up that group?

Which of the following is an example of a bad public policy that resulted from majority rule?

Which of the following is the most powerful agenda setter for government?

The "garbage can model" of policy decision making suggests that

Congress is primarily responsible for the policy implementation stage of public policymaking.

The goal of a policy analyst is

The first stage of the policymaking process, which produces the list of issues and problems the government will pay attention to, is

The political influence of wealthy lobbying groups is most detrimental to which of the following core values of democracy?