Relax. This “air midterm” does not count toward your grade; do not even turn it in. Instead, use it to appraise your own progress in the course. Try out this test, either in your head or on paper.If you flounder, then you should take more care with class sessions and assigned readings.
I. Identifications. Explain the meaning and significance of the following items. What is fair game for an identification?
- Items that we have discussed in class or on the blog;
- Items that appear in bold or italics in the readings;
- Items that cover several pages in the readings.
- Polis model
- Reactive effects
- Policy lightning
- Supplemental poverty measure
- Federal Register
- Uniform Crime Reports
- Moral hazard
- Coping organization
- "Internalities"
- Policy "stress tests"
- Age-adjusted rates
- Sensitivity analysis
- Entrepreneurial politics
- Describe the difference between "outputs" and "outcomes," with concrete examples.
- "Defense spending has skyrocketed over the past 25 years!" "Defense spending is consuming far less of our resources than it did 25 years ago!" How could both statements be true?
- Briefly describe Bardach's "eightfold path."
- Explain the difference between "equity" and "efficiency."
- Stone says: "Policy is centrally about classification and differentiation, about how we do and should categorize in a world where categories are not given." Explain, using examples from the Maier book.
- Political scientist Steven Teles writes"America's federal system of government also does its part to add to policy complexity. In a purely federal system, in which governmental functions were clearly differentiated between the national and state governments, federalism would not translate directly into complexity. But that is not American federalism as it is currently practiced." Explain, with reference to the issues of health care and homeland security.
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