fiscal policies refer to

Political Science by Geoffrey

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:

  1. prioritize people who make decisions in the private sector
  2. prioritize decision making objectives
  3. agenda objectives
  4. 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

  1. crime procedures
  2. educational institutions
  3. foreign states
  4. none of the above

1 points

QUESTION 5

Public policies can be classified into the following:

  1. regulatory policies
  2. establishing policies
  3. agenda setting
  4. none of the above is true

1 points

QUESTION 6

Policy analysts should:

  1. reduce black market
  2. reduce monopoly problem
  3. none of the above is correct
  4. increase uncertainty

1 points

QUESTION 7

Opportunity cost means:

  1. Cost of purchasing state agenda
  2. cost of spending money in market failure
  3. lost opportunity of making public policy before setting the agenda
  4. 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:

  1. make executive decisions about public policy
  2. make a consultative public policy
  3. make suggestions and implement them
  4. none of the above is correct

1 points

QUESTION 10

fiscal policies refer to:

  1. tax regulations
  2. funding foreign affairs
  3. money flow
  4. 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:

  1. patronage policies
  2. financial elimination of unneeded benefits
  3. potential of creating black market problem
  4. 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:

  1. a policy that can never be resolved
  2. black market problem
  3. a policy problem that exists in health sector but not in educational sector
  4. 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:

  1. who gets what and who gives what
  2. everything governments attempt to do
  3. the struggle of taking responsibility for government’s decisions
  4. none of the above is correct

1 points

QUESTION 19

In redistributive policies, the government:

  1. aims to distribute public resources to all ministries
  2. aims to redirect policy resources toward benefiting public agencies
  3. redistribute employees benefit especially in emiratization
  4. none of the above is correct

1 points

QUESTION 20

Public Policy in UAE has the following levels:

  1. international level and domestic level
  2. local level and external level
  3. security level, domestic level and national level
  4. none of the above is correct

1 points

QUESTION 21

Public policy can be defined as:

  1. all actions, non-actions, decisions, and activities of state politicians
  2. everything a Minister decides to do or not to do anytime and anywhere
  3. none of the above
  4. everything we do and decide to do

1 points

QUESTION 22

One of the following is a major challenge in policy making

  1. state stateless
  2. time scarcity
  3. lack of scarcity
  4. 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:

  1. tax policies
  2. central bank policies
  3. flag policy
  4. none of the above is true

1 points

QUESTION 27

Public interest is:

  1. public needs that governments satisfy
  2. public needs that the private sector satisfies
  3. public needs that government and private companies satisfy together
  4. none of the above is correct

1 points

QUESTION 28

in patronage policies, governments aim to——————

  1. regulate economic policies
  2. promote agenda setting
  3. patronaging policy problem
  4. 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