Public Policy and Administration Exam Review

Flashcards testing core concepts, frameworks, definitions, dates, and empirical findings across the provided public policy literature.

The founder of the field of public policy, Harold Lasswell, formulated in 1951 that public policy must focus on __________ rather than on topical issues of the moment.

the fundamental problems of man in society

In 1972, Thomas Dye offered the simplest definition of public policy as __________.

anything a government chooses to do or not to do

According to Peter Hall's framework, any public policy can be broken down across two dimensions: ends and __________.

means

In Hall's framework, the three levels of policy ends from highest abstraction to specific measures are goals, objectives, and __________.

settings

The standard applied problem-solving policy cycle consists of five main stages: agenda-setting, policy formulation, decision-making, implementation, and __________.

policy evaluation

The actor hourglass model shows that the narrowest circle of actors involved at the decision-making stage consists of __________ government decision-makers.

authoritative

In decision-making within the policy process, Aberbach et al. note that while many actors have a 'voice', only politicians, judges, and legally empowered bureaucrats have a __________.

'vote'

Goldstein and Keohane (1993) identify three ideational categories influencing agenda-setting: world views/ideologies, principled beliefs, and __________.

causal ideas / causal stories

A historically specific configuration of institutions, actors, instruments, and governing ideas that produces self-reinforcing patterns of policy-making in a sector is known as a policy __________.

regime

In the study of the Lyon-Turin high-speed railway by Esposito et al. (2022), when actors challenge the degree to which correct principles are applied within a shared world, it is an order-of-worth controversy or a __________ controversy.

state-of-worth

Esposito et al. (2021) identified five forms of institutional work in megaprojects: defining, embedding and routinizing, enabling, policing, and __________.

disconnecting rewards

The most distinctive conceptual innovation of French policy analysis is the shift from 'public policy' (politique publique) to __________.

'public action' (action publique)

The 2001 French public finance reform that first correlated public spending with policy objectives is known as the __________.

LOLF (Loi Organique relative aux Lois de Finances)

In the scoping review of Sustainable Urban Development (SUD) barriers by Galego et al. (2024), the stage of the policy cycle concentrating the vast majority of barriers ($65.57\%$) is __________.

implementation

Among the five barrier types categorized by Galego et al. (2024), the most common type at $48.63\%$ of all identified barrier fragments is __________ barriers.

organisational

In the Economies of Worth framework, a disagreement over WHICH order of worth should take priority (e.g., Market vs. Civic) is called an __________ paradox.

Order of Worth

Helen Dickinson uses the analogy of a __________ to describe how successive waves of public management reforms (PA, NPM, NPG) accumulate over time without entirely erasing previous layers.

palimpsest

R.A.W. Rhodes defines __________ as a bias toward current events and values—interpreting the past through a modern lens—reinforced in the UK by REF and UKRI.

presentism

Interpretive Public Governance (IPG), as proposed by Rhodes, uses individual __________ embedded in traditions as its fundamental unit of analysis.

beliefs

In the Comparative Manifesto Database, the specific variable used to measure NPM saliency based on quasi-sentences devoted to efficiency, economy, and effectiveness is __________.

Per303

Lascoumes and Le Galès establish a three-level analytical distinction for public policy instrumentation: instrument, technique, and __________.

tool

Palier's welfare state research produced the famous summary phrase describing instrumental reform without goal shifts: 'Change the instruments so as __________'.

not to change the world

Caliskan and Callon define an agencement (or socio-technical arrangement) specifically from the point of view of its capacity to __________.

act

Bill Maurer describes public policy regulation as retrospective __________—a clue to the situated character of past user practices.

ethnography

Sabine Saurugger categorizes the historical evolution of EU participatory instruments into three generations: Consultation, Partnership, and __________.

Participation

The constitutional provision that formally enshrines participatory democracy in the European Union is Article __________ of the Lisbon Treaty.

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According to B. Guy Peters, a model of full policy design must integrate four interactive elements: causation, instrumentation, evaluation, and __________.

intervention

William N. Dunn defines a policy problem as 'an unrealized need, value, or __________ for improvement'.

opportunity

In the Belgian FOI citizen science study by Esposito et al. (2024), treatment (b) representing a common citizen who explicitly cited FOI achieved the highest rate of at least __________ compliance.

partial

John Kingdon's Multiple Streams Framework posits that agenda change occurs when three independent streams—problem, policy, and political—are coupled together during a policy __________.

window

In Punctuated Equilibrium Theory, the institutional structures that maintain policy stability through a dominant policy image and negative feedback are called policy __________.

monopolies

In Policy Feedback Theory, Paul Pierson identifies two main pathways through which policies shape future politics: resource effects and __________ effects.

interpretive

In the Advocacy Coalition Framework, the three-tiered belief system includes deep core beliefs, policy core beliefs, and __________ beliefs.

secondary

The Narrative Policy Framework assumes that human beings process information primarily as narrative creatures, a concept termed Homo __________.

narrans

In the Institutional Analysis and Development (IAD) framework developed by Elinor Ostrom, the core analytical unit where two or more actors face choices that jointly produce outcomes is called the __________.

action situation