Political Science
Homework 30 questions
QUESTION 1
One of the strategies that policy makers use to reduce the negative impact of scarcity in public policy area is:
- prioritize people who make decisions in the private sector
- prioritize decision making objectives
- agenda objectives
- none of the above is correct
1 points
QUESTION 2
Steps of public policy include problem solving step
- True
- False
1 points
QUESTION 3
Public goods and public interest are exactly the same
- True
- False
1 points
QUESTION 4
The following is an example of public policy in UAE
- crime procedures
- educational institutions
- foreign states
- none of the above
1 points
QUESTION 5
Public policies can be classified into the following:
- regulatory policies
- establishing policies
- agenda setting
- none of the above is true
1 points
QUESTION 6
Policy analysts should:
- reduce black market
- reduce monopoly problem
- none of the above is correct
- increase uncertainty
1 points
QUESTION 7
Opportunity cost means:
- Cost of purchasing state agenda
- cost of spending money in market failure
- lost opportunity of making public policy before setting the agenda
- None of the above is correct
1 points
QUESTION 8
Ministry of Education is a non-official actor in health public policies
- True
- False
1 points
QUESTION 9
public policy analysts have the right to:
- make executive decisions about public policy
- make a consultative public policy
- make suggestions and implement them
- none of the above is correct
1 points
QUESTION 10
fiscal policies refer to:
- tax regulations
- funding foreign affairs
- money flow
- none of the above is true
1 points
QUESTION 11
policy analysis and policy analysts are the same thing
- True
- False
1 points
QUESTION 12
state subsidies refer to:
- patronage policies
- financial elimination of unneeded benefits
- potential of creating black market problem
- none of the above is correct
1 points
QUESTION 13
Governments can survive without making public policies
- True
- False
1 points
QUESTION 14
agenda setting is an important part of policy evaluation stage
- True
- False
1 points
QUESTION 15
free-rider is:
- a policy that can never be resolved
- black market problem
- a policy problem that exists in health sector but not in educational sector
- none of the above is correct
1 points
QUESTION 16
policy actors can be referred to as policy stakeholders
- True
- False
1 points
QUESTION 17
all policy problems are easy to describe
- True
- False
1 points
QUESTION 18
Politics can be defined as:
- who gets what and who gives what
- everything governments attempt to do
- the struggle of taking responsibility for government’s decisions
- none of the above is correct
1 points
QUESTION 19
In redistributive policies, the government:
- aims to distribute public resources to all ministries
- aims to redirect policy resources toward benefiting public agencies
- redistribute employees benefit especially in emiratization
- none of the above is correct
1 points
QUESTION 20
Public Policy in UAE has the following levels:
- international level and domestic level
- local level and external level
- security level, domestic level and national level
- none of the above is correct
1 points
QUESTION 21
Public policy can be defined as:
- all actions, non-actions, decisions, and activities of state politicians
- everything a Minister decides to do or not to do anytime and anywhere
- none of the above
- everything we do and decide to do
1 points
QUESTION 22
One of the following is a major challenge in policy making
- state stateless
- time scarcity
- lack of scarcity
- none of the above is correct
1 points
QUESTION 23
it is more important for the government to create free-rider than to create black market in the health sector
- True
- False
1 points
QUESTION 24
Monopoly is an important part that governments should add to all public policies
- True
- False
1 points
QUESTION 25
Interest groups are an official policy actor
- True
- False
1 points
QUESTION 26
symbolic policies include the following:
- tax policies
- central bank policies
- flag policy
- none of the above is true
1 points
QUESTION 27
Public interest is:
- public needs that governments satisfy
- public needs that the private sector satisfies
- public needs that government and private companies satisfy together
- none of the above is correct
1 points
QUESTION 28
in patronage policies, governments aim to——————
- regulate economic policies
- promote agenda setting
- patronaging policy problem
- none of the above is correct
1 points
QUESTION 29
In public policy process, policy adoption step comes before policy evaluation step
- True
- False
1 points
QUESTION 30
the government is required to adopt important policies to promote market failure
- True
- False