Chapter 17 | Domestic Policy
By 1990, the cost of sugar subsidies to the American consumer was as much as
$3 billion a year
The Social Security Act became law in __________.
1935
By 2010, Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid together accounted for _________ of the federal budget.
40%
In 2010, about __________ Americans received Social Security benefits.
54 million
The Reagan administration used the Sherman Act to make suit against __________.
AT&T
Of the following, who advocated for consumer and environmental protections?
All of these choices are true
The Taft-Hartley Act
All of these choices are true
In this decision, the Supreme Court ruled that states should comply with EPA decisions, even if not explicitly authorized by statute, provided they are reasonable efforts to attain the goal of law.
Chevron v. National Resources Defense Council
Which of the following involves a cash subsidy to poor working families?
Earned Income Tax Credit
The national event held on April 22, 1970, that celebrated the new environmental movement was called __________ Day.
Earth
(T/F) Environmental Impact Statements are largely innocuous, and do not slow government projects down.
F
(T/F) Federalism reduces adversarial politics in environmental policy.
F
(T/F) In England, the writing of environmental rules is just as adversarial as the United States.
F
(T/F) Majoritarian politics hold narrowly concentrated benefits and widely distributed costs.
F
(T/F) Medicaid was created during Franklin Roosevelt's administration.
F
(T/F) Polls suggested most Americans supported "Obamacare."
F
(T/F) The federal government spends more on foreign aid than it does Medicaid.
F
(T/F) Today, restrictions on foreign oil imports continue and unlimited freedom has been extended to oil companies to drill wherever they please.
F
Which of the following nations was the first to create a nationwide social security program?
Germany
Medicare became a cornerstone of Lyndon Johnson's __________.
Great Society
In this landmark case, the Supreme Court ruled that Congress has broad discretion to tax and spend "in the aid of the 'general welfare.'"
Helvering v. Davis
Leading up to the 1936 presidential election, this politician was proposing a radical economic plan entitled "Share Our Wealth."
Huey Long
__________ politics means only a few people, communities, or organizations benefit, and a few, communities, or organizations pay.
Interest-group
Which of the following statements best describes popular support for the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, including its call for environmental impact statements?
It remains strong
Who argued that the state in a capitalist society was nothing more than the executive committee of the propertied classes?
Karl Marx
__________ politics means that all or most people benefit and all or most pay.
Majoritarian
Of the following, which is NOT a means tested program?
Medicare
Which of the following involves the government's paying part of the cost of hospital care for retired or disabled persons on Social Security?
Medicare
Which program is popularly called Social Security?
Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance (OASDI)
This policy entrepreneur's book Unsafe at Any Speed: The Designed-In Dangers of the American Automobile led to new regulations on the safety of automobiles.
Ralph Nader
This president created the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
Richard Nixon
Which book raised public awareness about DDT?
Silent Spring
(T/F) Alexander Hamilton argued the interpretation of the phrase "general welfare" should be broad.
T
(T/F) America has been slower than other nations to embrace the welfare state.
T
(T/F) Antitrust laws are examples of majoritarian politics.
T
(T/F) Environmental issues are receiving less support today than in the past.
T
(T/F) Great Britain had national systems of old-age pensions, health insurance, and unemployment insurance long before the United States did.
T
(T/F) If more milk is produced than people want to drink, then the Agriculture Department's Commodity Credit Corporation purchases the surplus milk with tax dollars.
T
(T/F) It took thirteen years, from 1977 to 1990, to agree on a congressional revision of the Clean Air Act.
T
(T/F) Medicaid provides health coverage for people receiving TANF or SSI payments.
T
(T/F) Medicare Part D is a voluntary prescription drug program for qualifying senior citizens.
T
(T/F) The Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program was created by the Social Security Act of 1935.
T
(T/F) The Medicare program does not utilize a means test.
T
(T/F) The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 passed without a single Republican vote.
T
This body adjudicates disputes between labor and management over the interpretation of labor laws.
The National Labor Relations Board
The Constitution calls for the government to "promote the general Welfare" and "provide for the...general Welfare" in what two sections of the document?
The Preamble and Article I, Section 8
Which of the following statements regarding cap and trade is incorrect?
The bill never came to a vote in the Senate
In this decision, the Supreme Court ruled that EPA rules must be observed without regard to their cost or technological feasibility.
Union Electric Co. v. Environmental Protection Agency
This author's book, The Jungle, dramatized the frightful conditions in meat-packing plants in the early 1900s and helped pave the way for the Meat Inspection Act of 1906.
Upton Sinclair
The passage of the Medicare bill was made possible by
a Democratic landslide in the 1964 elections
The form of pollutant thought to be caused by the burning of high-sulfur coal by Midwestern power and industrial plants is
acid rain
The environmental movement was launched, in part, in reaction to
an oil spill on the beaches of Santa Barbara, California
The Sherman Act of 1890 is an example of
antitrust legislation
Most of the debate surrounding the 1970 Clean Air Act centered on the issue of pollution from
automobile tailpipes
The device used in automobile engines to remove emission pollutants is the
catalytic converter
The text argues that agriculture subsidies are an example of
client politics
Welfare policies in which a relatively few number of people benefit but almost everyone pays are characterized by
client politics
The text suggests that laws protecting endangered species are examples of __________ politics.
entreptreneurial
Consumer and environmental protection laws are considered
entreptreneurial politics
A means tested social program is limited to people of certain
income levels
Between 1996 and 2001, agriculture subsidies
increased
The type of politics best illustrated by the acid rain controversy is
interest group politics
Much of the nation's laws governing labor and occupational health and safety can be considered
interest-group politics
Much of the antitrust legislation passed in this country, such as the Sherman Act (1890), has been the result of
majoritarian politics
The type of politics best illustrated by auto-emission-control regulations is
majoritarian politics
Welfare policies in which nearly everyone benefits and nearly everyone pays are characterized by
majoritarian politics
Medicaid differs from Medicare in that it provides
medical assistance to the poor
Compared with European countries, environmental policymaking in the United States tends to be
more adversarial
Compared to the United States, European environmental policy tends to be
more flexible
Before the passage of the Social Security Act, _________ states had some form of old-age pension.
most
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 does all of the following EXCEPT
provides health care for all who are under 65 and cannot afford it
Under the Clean Air Act of 1970, states were required to
restrict the public's use of cars
Today, there are more than __________ species on the endangered species list.
six hundred
The Endangered Species Act of 1973 is primarily implemented by
the Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Adminstration
The two main federal bureaucracies responsible for social welfare policies and programs are
the US Department of Health and Human Services and the US Department of Veteran Affairs
Even though the national cost of agriculture subsidies is high, there is often a lack of strong political opposition because
the added cost on individual goods, such as milk and sugar, is not noticeable to each individual consumer
One notable difference between the passage of Medicare (1965) and the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (2010) was
the lack of bipartisan support for the 2010 Act
The text describes the nation's political agenda as being
the primary puzzles about public policy.
In America, when compared in running welfare programs. a. the states to most European democracies, we have insisted that _________ play(s) a large role role in running welfare programs.
the states
The Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program was created to help support the children of women
whose husbands had perished in disasters
