The Public Policy Process

1. Name the two largest entitlement (contributory) social welfare program in the United States__________.
2. How are the programs above paid for?
3. Name three Assistance or ‘non-contributary programs’ provided for by U.S. policy.
4. What is a means test?
5. What are the five interactive stages of the public policy process?
6. What happens in the policy formation stage?
7. Name three elements of a “good policy.”
8. What does the President’s budget proposal do? Does Congress have to act on the proposal?
9. What is a Congressional budget resolution?
10. What is an appropriation committee?
11. Which branch of government controls the budget process?
12. What part of government implements public policy?
13. What is a cost-benefit analysis?
14. What do administrative rules address in the implementation process?
15. What is the gap between what the federal government spends and the amount of money it take in called?
16. What does the cabinet office, the Office of Management and Budget do in the budget process?
17. What is a continuing resolution?

Foreign policy:

1. What is American exceptionalism?
2. What is the theory of primacy that influences the growth of the American military?
3. What government agency is mot likely to be involved with diplomacy?
4. What is protectionism?
5. What is a tariff?
6. The idea that goods and services should move freely across national borders without government interference is known as____.
7. What is internationalism?
8. What is unilateralism?
9. Which of this would you say describes your foreign policy views and why? Which would you most associate with President Trump? See lecture.

a. Hamiltonian
b. Jacksonian
c. Jeffersonian
d. Neoconservative
e. Wilsonian

1. Which branch of government has the power to declare war?
2. Which branch of government has the power/responsibility to ratify treaties? By how many votes?
3. Traditionally, who sits on the National Security Council?
4. What is ‘soft power?’