Public policy lecture feedback & response assignment #5 public po
1. Public Policy Lecture Feedback & Response Assignment #5
Public Policy Alternatives, Analysis and Choices Lecture
Review
Student Name: Date:
Please answer the following questions regarding policy analysis
covered in the reading materials associated with Lecture 10 and
11.
1. What are evaluative criteria for policy making? Why are
they used?
2. What two evaluative criteria are most used in policy
decisions?
3. Please list the eight (8) evaluative criteria presented in figure
6-1 of the Kraft and Furlong text. Please briefly define each of
them.
4. What are the three economic methods used in policy
analysis? Please define each of these.
5. In Writing Public Policy by Smith, she discusses why policy
should be presented/argued. Please list three of the reasons that
she says policy arguments are important and needed.
6. Define incremental policy making, which is the dominant
policy making style in the United States.
7. When might incremental policy making be advantageous?
When might this style present challenges?