A Texas college student at a local university stops attending class and the professor drops the student from the class for excessive absences. As required by state law, the student receives a W for the course and must retake the class.
This example illustrates which stage of the policy making process?
a) policy evaluation
b) policy implementation
c) policy formulation
d) policy review
e) agenda building
Q. 2The context of policymaking refers to the set of factors outside of government that affects the policymaking process either directly or indirectly.
Indicate whether this statement is true or false.
Q. 3A group of political actors that is concerned with some aspect of public policy is known as an issue network.
Indicate whether this statement is true or false.
Q. 4Not all issues complete the policy cycle.
Indicate whether this statement is true or false.
Q. 5The stages of the policy process sometimes overlap.
Indicate whether this statement is true or false.
Q. 6Empirical analysis relies on scientific observation.
Indicate whether this statement is true or false.
Q. 7The era of one-party dominance in Texas by the Democratic Party lasted
A) about 110 years, from the end of Reconstruction to the 1980s.
B) about 165 years, from the creation of the Republic until today.
C) about 50 years, from the end of Reconstruction until the end of World War I. D) from the start of the oil boom in the early 1900s until the beginning of the twenty-first century.
E) from the landslide election of Democratic President Franklin Roosevelt in 1932 until the landslide re-election of Republican President Richard Nixon in 1972.
Q. 8The rational comprehensive model of policy formulation reflects the real world of public policymaking in which political actors work with imperfect information.
Indicate whether this statement is true or false.
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