First Exam

Question 1

Public policies

Answer 1

Government actions with public based on a process of diagnosis and feasibility analysis, for the effective attention of specific public problems.

Question 2

Define if its States Policies, Government Policies or Public Policies

Economic Policies

Answer 2

State police

Question 3

Define if its States Policies, Government Policies or Public Policies

government programs with a distinctive seal of the administration in turn

Answer 3

Government Policies

Question 4

Define if its States Policies, Government Policies or Public Policies

Programa Seguro Popular en México

Answer 4

Public policie

Question 5

Knowledge in

Answer 5

incorporation of data and theorems of science in the processes of deliberation and decision of politics. Try to increase rationality.

Question 6

Knowledge of

Answer 6

task of knowing the policy decision process. Know how and why certain problems are classified as public and others are not

Question 7

Model of the Gendarme State

Answer 7

Administration of justice
Tax collection
Internal and external security

Question 8

Model of the Welfare State

Answer 8

The State should produce the jobs that the private sector could not create.
Basic function: redistribution of social wealth
Public services in general (eg Public health, education, housing)
Crisis: services: omnipresent, overwhelming and ineffective State, the system of legitimacy is in crisis. So many demands overwhelmed him.

Question 9

Neoliberal State Model:

Answer 9

Disincorporation of public companies- Privatization
Redevelopment of the State: modest State, shrink it, slim it down
Profitable public companies. Effective companies: optimize resources.
Open up to commercial exchange
Recover premises of the gendarme state

Question 10

Father of Public Policy

Answer 10

Harold Laswell

Question 11

Laswell proposal

Answer 11

the government required more knowledge and technical tools to improve decision-making

Question 12

Herbert Simon

Answer 12

the rational decision-making model

Question 13

Charles E. Lindblom

Answer 13

Incrementalism
It proposes a gradual approach where the effectiveness of small changes is tested without destroying what already works.

Question 14

Public policy cycle

Answer 14

Select public issues
Definition of the problem - “roadmap” design
Put into action or implementation
Evaluation

Question 15

Rational Approach

Answer 15

Solving public problems must start from a situational analysis that leads us to a diagnosis of the situation.
It assumes that individuals behave and make their decisions rationally

Question 16

Incrementalism

Answer 16

there is not the information and time to make an exhaustive analysis, so policy decisions have to be made with limited information, in changing contexts

Question 17

Mixed-Scanning Approach

Answer 17

not everything can be explored, so decision makers are engaged (or should be engaged) in exploring “fully and with a rationalistic perspective” key areas, at the same time that others are subject to a more “truncated” review

Question 18

Private

Answer 18

Issues to solve in private free interactions.

Question 19

Public

Answer 19

Matters that reach the rank of public interest and government agenda