The Affordable Care Act, colloquially known as Obamacare, deals primarily with what policy area?
A. education
B. health care
C. welfare
D. economics
Answer: B
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One of the goals of the Basic Law was to
A. remedy the defect of "too much democracy" in the earlier regime. B. control freedom of speech in West Germany. C. show East Germans that they were permitted to publicly speak. D. prevent civil war between East and West Germany.
Public policies are evaluated using all of the following standards EXCEPT ______.
a. whether they are efficient b. whether they are socially acceptable c. whether they are feasible d. whether they are equitable e. whether policymakers want them to succeed
Cognitive dissonance is the idea that
a. political leaders learn from previous successes and failures and adjust their behavior accordingly to maximize the likelihood of future successes. b. explains both individual political behavior and collective actions. c. assumes, short of a crisis, that government officials will make small changes to existing policy rather than start from scratch when making policy decisions. d. highlights the extent to which initial contact or experiences are filtered through past contacts or relationships with similar individuals or settings. e. people do not like to hold obviously contradictory positions, leading them to reject evidence that may run counter to their initial beliefs about a particular topic.
SELECT ALL THAT APPLY. Which of the following are examples of elite theories?
a. Marxism b. neocolonialism c. patriarchy d. pluralism