Please Identify and Define…
- the reasons why governments at all levels promote and support business activity and the means by which they do so.
- regulation and its basic purposes as applied to business activity.
- market failure in its six forms.
- the political rationales for regulation and the difference between economic regulation and social regulation.
- federal, state, and local organization for regulation and the unique place of the independent regulatory commissions in the federal and state executive branches.
- the procedures for rule making by public agencies and the major institutions that participate in this process.
- the means by which regulations are enforced and the challenges in detecting and correcting illegal actions.
- the political influences on both rule making and enforcement.
- the deregulation movement of the past four decades and its outcomes.
- the concept of government failure in regulation.
Chapter 12
Please Identify and Define…
- the various roles that governments play toward individuals and publics.
- the constitutional rights and liberties that are at stake in administrative operations and the major issues they involve.
- the costs entailed in protecting citizen rights and liberties.
- the means by which governments communicate with citizens and the major purposes of the various messages they send.
- the current status and uses of “digital government” and its likely prospects.
- how international publics are affected, for better or worse, by American policies.
- how public services can be rationed and subject to biases, whether intentional or unintentional.
Chapter 13
Please Identify and Define…
- implementation and evaluation, as applied to public policies.
- outputs, outcomes, and impacts of policy implementation.
- the reasons why implementation became a significant political issue requiring administrators’ attention.
- the five basic requirements for successful implementation of policy.
- impediments to effective implementation of policy, including authority leakage.
- the alternative approaches and means of evaluating the results of policy implementation.
- the seven criteria used to evaluate policy results, with examples of each.
- the purposes and means of performance evaluation, including the Government Performance and Results Acts of 1993 and 2010 and the process of benchmarking.
- the political challenges to implementation and evaluation.
Please Identify and Define…
- accountability in government, the reasons why it is necessary, and the challenges in maintaining it.
- the specific formal means of accountability within the executive branch of government.
- the specific formal means by which executive agencies are held accountable by external organizations.
- the specific external/informal sources of accountability and their usefulness.
- the internal/informal means and their potential to hold government agencies accountable.
- freedom of information and open government laws.
- the realms of public ethical standards and the challenges of applying them to official conduct.
- the challenges in identifying and preventing conflicts of interest.
Chapter 14
Please Identify and Define…
- accountability in government, the reasons why it is necessary, and the challenges in maintaining it.
- the specific formal means of accountability within the executive branch of government.
- the specific formal means by which executive agencies are held accountable by external organizations.
- the specific external/informal sources of accountability and their usefulness.
- the internal/informal means and their potential to hold government agencies accountable.
- freedom of information and open government laws.
- the realms of public ethical standards and the challenges of applying them to official conduct.
- the challenges in identifying and preventing conflicts of interest.