How can the social context affect the development of public policy? Provide an example as part of your answer.
What will be an ideal response?
Changes in society such as population, age demographics, single-parent families, and so on, will shape the policy process. For example, an increase in the number of the elderly in the population may dictate attention toward issues of Medicare or Social Security.
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William G. Mayer contends that one of the biggest changes in the presidential nominating process since the early 1970s has been a greater role for
a. state party organizations in the selection of presidential nominees. b. average voters in the selection of presidential nominees. c. state legislatures in the selection of presidential nominees. d. local party organizations in the selection of presidential nominees.
The election in the year 1960 featured the first televised presidential debate.
A. True B. False
All of the following are considered cash transfers EXCEPT
A. unemployment checks. B. Pell grants to college students. C. Medicaid services. D. tax breaks. E. Social Security checks.
Devolution refers to
a. the breakdown of civil society leading to a failed state. b. the disintegration of a supranational organization. c. deliberate transfer of powers held by a central government to regional or nonstate bodies to increase local self-government. d. the extermination of an ethnic minority group by the state. e. None of the above is true.