How are criteria used to evaluate public policy? Discuss the criteria that policy analysts use to evaluate an existing or proposed policy and the focus of each criterion.
What will be an ideal response?
Effectiveness, how well a policy will address the public problem it is designed to alleviate; efficiency, how well it works relative to the cost; equity, whether the policy affects subgroups of people equally; political feasibility, whether the policy will be acceptable in the eyes of government officials.
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A) thirty-five years. B) forty-three years. C) forty-five years. D) fifty-four years. E) sixty-two years.
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a. serving as head of the Department of Justice b. deciding which cases to file with the Supreme Court for the government c. representing the government before the Supreme Court d. filing amicus curiae briefs with the Supreme Court
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a. the national legislature dominated by a single political party b. a component state unable to raise sufficient funds to provide certain government services at the local level c. the inability of component states to have any autonomy d. local officials unable to make basic decisions without the express consent of the central government
Which of the following is NOT a country that is not yet recognized as sovereign by the entire world community?
A. China B. Taiwan C. Palestine D. Israel E. Chechnya