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Question
1. The Tenth Amendment created a class of powers exclusive to state governments. These powers are referred to as.
a. enumerated powers
b. implied powers
c. reserved powers
d. none of the above
2. Under a political culture, citizens will tend to be more tolerant of corruption from their political leaders and less likely to see politics as a notable profession in which all citizens should engage.
a. moralistic
b. individualistic
c. traditionalistic
d. nativistic
3. A is an officeholder who represents the will of those who elected him or her and acts in constituents expressed interest.
a. delegate
b. trustee
c. politico
d. citizen
4. A(n) veto allows the governor to cross out budget lines in the legislature- approved budget, while signing the remainder of the budget into law.
a. amendatory
b. line-item
c. reduction
d. Frankenstein
5. When term limits have been overturned, the most common method was .
a. a bill passed by the state legislature
b. a decision by the state Supreme Court
c. a voter referendum
d. a governor's decree
6. Currently, state have term limits in place.
a. five
b. ten
c. fifteen
d. twenty
7. Which of the following is not one of the three forms of county government?
a. the commission system
b. the council-elected executive system
c. the mayor-council system
d. the council-administrator system
8. Public policy .
a. is more of a theory than a reality
b. is typically made by one branch of government acting alone
c. requires multiple actors and branches to carry out
d. focuses on only a few special individuals
9. Toll goods differ from public goods is that .
a. they provide special access to some and not at all
b. the require the payment of a fee up front
c. they provide a service for only the wealthy
d. they are free and available to all
10. Setting aside Social Security and Medicare, other entitlement programs in the U.S. government .
a. constitute over half the budget
b. constitute well under one-quarter of the budget
c. are paid for by the states with no cost to the Federal government
d. none of the above
11. Which stage of the public policy process includes identification of problems in need of fixing?
a. agenda setting
b. enactment
c. implementation
d. evaluation
12. Entitlement (or mandatory) spending is .
a. formula-based spending that goes to individual citizens
b. a program of contracts o aerospace companies
c. focused on children
d. concentrated on education
13. a deficit is .
a. the overall amount owed by government for past borrowing
b. the annual budget shortfall between revenues and expenditures
c. the cancellation of an entitlement program
d. all of the above
14. Which type of policy directly benefits the most citizens?
a. regulatory policy
b. distributive policy
c. redistributive policy
d. self-regulatory policy
15. Which of the following is not a foreign policy type?
a. trade policy
b. intelligence policy
c. war making
d. bureaucratic oversight
16. All the following are examples of sharply focused foreign policy outputs except .
a. presidential summits
b. military uses of force
c. emergency spending measures
d. international agreements
17. The federal budget process matters in foreign policy for all the following reasons except:
a. Congress has the power of the purse, so the president needs its approval.
b. The budget provides the funding needed to run the foreign policy agencies.
c. The budget for every presidential action has to be approved in advance.
d. The budget allows political institutions to increase funding in key new areas.
18. In terms of formal powers in the realm of foreign policy, .
a. the president is entirely in charge
b. the president and Congress share power
c. Congress is entirely in charge
d. decisions are delegated to experts in the bureaucracy
19. The U.S policy of containment during the Cold War is related to keeping .
a. terrorism from spreading
b. rogue countries like North Korea from developing nuclear weapons
c. communism from spreading
d. oil prices from rising
20. The use of drones within other countries' borders is consistent with which school of thought?
a. liberal internationalism
b. neo-conservatism
c. neo-isolationism
d. grand strategy