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| In the aftermath of the Watergate scandal when President Nixon was refusing to release his White House tapes he was invoking which form of executive power? |
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| What president espoused the theory of Executive prerogative: |
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| The restricted view of presidential power was/is embodied in: |
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| The "doctrine of the separation of powers was adopted by the Convention of 1787, not to promote efficiency, but to preclude the exercise of arbitrary power." This statement means that: |
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| A certain amount of governmental friction is needed among the three branches of government, and that government efficiency is not the primary need in a democracy |
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| The president who espoused stewardship theory of the Presidency was: |
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| What are the typical outside forces impacting the head of a public agency? |
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| Judiciary, auditors, and legislature |
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| What is NOT a player in the cozy or iron triangle? |
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| The office of the president promoting the policy |
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| The power-elite theory espoused by C. Wright Mills states that government is: |
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| controlled by warlords, corporate chieftains, and political directorates as well as being dominated by political, military, and business interests |
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| Incremental policy making implies that: |
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| small decisions made at the margins are usually the reality of change. |
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| What is NOT true about the process of public policy-making? |
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| policy papers put out by various parties and interest groups need not be read |
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| In a Republic like the US the which branch of government has the most power? |
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| No branch has more powers than another |
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| "Mixed scanning" decision making uses what two decision making models? |
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| uses both the incremental and rational-comprehensive model of decision making |
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| John Locke's theories about government: |
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| Were used in the declaration of independence, was used as rationale for the break with England, and had a profound influence on the Founding Fathers |
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| During WWII, Germany and Japan were seen as exemplars of: |
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| The prerogative theory expressed a level of executive power that President Abraham Lincoln felt might not only exceed constitutional bounds, but also possibly act against the constitution. (T/F) |
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| The seven step rational decision making approach has been generally attributed to Harold D. Laswell, the father of policy sciences(T/F) |
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| The stewardship theory states that the president should be free to make any actions in the public interest provided they do not conflict with the constitution(T/F) |
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| Your classmate insists that the mixed scanning decision making model was developed by Herbert Simon, who won the Nobel Prize for this concept-- is it true or false(T/F) |
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| Public policy making is a hierarchical process with the broadest, most overarching policy being made at the top. (T/F) |
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| Government in the US is considered to be pluralistic because it is composed of multiple elements, and multiple competing levels of power. (T/F) |
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