All of the following are examples of policy outputs except?
A. EPA clean air regulations
B. poverty rates
C. requirements that public schools conduct achievement testing
D. gun control legislation
B. poverty rates
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In response to the Hopwood ruling and potential declines in minority students in Texas universities, the state legislature __________
a. required all state universities to make sure that at least 10 percent of their admitted students each year were from underrepresented groups b. threatened to withhold state funding to any university that did not develop targeted recruitment and retention plans c. required the top 10 percent of graduates from each high school to be admitted to a state university d. decided to privatize state universities and provide direct financial assistance to minority students to attend
In the 2014 Sebelius v. Hobby Lobby decision, the Supreme Court
A. reached a unanimous verdict. B. made significant modifications to the Lemon test by essentially adding a fourth component to it. C. held that the Religious Freedom and Restoration Act was unconstitutional and invalidated all its provisions. D. ruled that corporations owned by a single family did not have to comply with the Affordable Care Act's provisions on birth control. E. gave the Obama administration a clear victory.
In the public sector, ______, rather than partisan loyalty, family connections, or political influence, is the basis for getting a job.
a. money b. authority c. hierarchy d. merit
The portion of the Constitution authorizing the president to “require the Opinion, in writing, of the principal Office in each of the executive Departments…” is generally interpreted as creating the president’s ______.
a. appointments b. bureaucracy c. cabinet d. supremacy