Quizzes Chap 9

The pluralist approach to understanding public policymaking focuses on the notion of the group, which is an aggregate of individuals who interact to pursue __________.

A common interest

Elite theory is best represented visually by what shape?

A pyramid

Pluralism explicitly rejects the notion that __________.

A small group or a single class dominates the public process

How might a democratic country be viewed as falling under the elite theory of policymaking?

A small portion of the population dominates most decision making and enjoys a disproportionate share of the benefits of policy decisions made by the government

When factory workers in Russia took to the streets to demand removal of the Tsarist autocracy in the lead-up to the Revolution of 1917, it was an example of

Class conflict

The elite and class approaches are based on a(n) __________ view of society.

Coercive

The maintenance of public schools would be considered which type of public policy?

Distributive

Robert Michels, Vilfredo Pareto, and Gaetano Mosca are all associated with which approach to policymaking?

Elite

An assumption of deep social, political, and economic inequality is fundamental to which two approaches?

Elite and class

The elite, class, and pluralist approaches all attempt to __________ public policymaking.

Explain

Imagine that a country takes steps to impose stricter environmental regulations. In this example, the environment is the __________ that is served by this public policy.

Functional area

If an analyst is concerned with questions about whom a policy benefits and who experiences negative effects from the policy, then the analyst is engaged in analyzing the policy's __________.

Impact

Which theorist was interested in considering various actors and their relationship to the major factors of production in the economic system?

Karl Marx

Karl Marx considered the proletariat class to be those who owned little more than their __________.

Labor

No actual country or political system is likely to operate exactly __________.

Like any of the three major approaches that explain public policymaking

In the United States, debates about policy approaches have been most intense among those who study power at the __________ level of government.

Local

Which of the following is a fact about Swaziland that classifies it as an elitist political system?

Most people have little direct impact on the policies and politics in the country

The elite, class, and pluralist approaches are each limited in the sense that __________.

No actual country or political system is likely to operate exactly like any of them

Private businesses and nonprofit organizations would both have substantial opportunity to influence public policy under which approach?

Pluralist

Robert Dahl and the term that he coined, polyarchy, are associated with which approach?

Pluralist

If a country has just implemented a new law to reform its education system, the next step in the policy process would be __________.

Policy evaluation

What term refers to the act of putting political analysis and ideology into action as a public policy?

Policy prescription

In the elite approach, lower-level political officials and administrators are located within the __________.

Political understructure

Each approach to understanding public policymaking focuses on the interactions among aggregations of individuals who use the political system to __________.

Pursue their own particular interests

There are generally six __________ the policy process.

Stages to

The concept of stratification refers to the basic existence of __________ in the distribution of values in society.

Structured inequality

In the class approach, who comprises the capitalist class?

Those who own significant amounts of the major factors of production

In differentiating the class approach from other approaches to public policy, how is large-scale political change most likely to come about?

Thru violent conflict