Public Policy and the Bureaucracy Studyguide
What is Public Policy (define it)
Four Types of Policies:
Majoritarian Policies
What is it?
Who pays?
Who Benefits
Interest Group Policies
What is it?
Who pays?
Who Benefits
Client Policies
What is it?
Who pays?
Who Benefits
Entrepreneurial Policies
What is it?
Who pays?
Who Benefits
What is Economic Policy?
What are the two leading Economic Indicators?
Explain Fiscal Policy:
Two main tools that the government uses to affect fiscal policy?
What are the largest expenditures in the US budget?
Explain Monetary Policy:
What are the main tools that the government uses to affect monetary policy?
Mandatory vs. Discretionary Spending
Entitlements
Social Security
Regulation
Deregulation
National Environmental Policy Act of 1969
CAFÉ
Government Subsidies- What are they?
What are the main types?
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Social Welfare Subsidies (what are these policies and are they means tested?)
Social Security
Medicare
TAMF
SSI
Food Stamps
Medicaid
Education Legislation
Head Start
Title IX
Individuals with Disabilities in Education Act
No
Child Left Behind
Common Core
What is the bureaucracy? What does it encompass?
Max Weber (what’s his ideal bureaucracy- hint there are 6 parts)
How large is the bureaucracy (number employed)
How does the bureaucracy impact our lives?
Patronage
Iron Triangles
Criticisms of the Bureaucracy
Positives of the Bureaucracy
OTHER:
There may be a few questions regarding JA/personal finance such as investing (including stock market) /credit / and savings(some from the last lecture). i.e.- shorting, P/E ratio, etc