Objective question areas covered in multiple choice and true/false questions:

1. reasons for anger of voters in recent elections
2. importance of cultural values in meeting challenges
3. individualism and community as cultural values in America (negative and positive aspects of each)
4. community and freedom as a paradox
5. Louis L'Amour
6. large centralized corporate consumerist capitalism
7. de Tocqueville
8. how Americans compensate for lack of community
9. ESOP
10. "democratic capitalism"
11. definition of public policy
12. types of policies (distributive, redistributive, and regulatory)
13. means testing
14. cost-benefit analysis
15. models of policy making (rational and incremental)
16. which policy-making model is ideal and which most practical
17. administrative discretion in implementing policies
18. Prohibition as a failed policy
19. types of policy evaluation and problems with each (seat of the pants, middle level, systematic)
20. social entrepreneurism
21. Milton Friedman
22. reform and renewal
23. the public/private distinction in the U.S.
24. Forrest Gump as Horatio Alger
25. instrumental values
26. agenda setting
27. think tanks
28. trial balloons
29. unintended consequences
30. sunk costs
31. Legislative Audit Council
32. General Accounting Office
33. political correctness
34. validation of employment tests
35. laws with respect to employment discrimination
36. stereotypes/public opinion with respect to bureaucracy
37. lessons from the hiring simulation
38. defining characteristics of bureaucracy
39. size of the federal bureaucracy
40. Woodrow Wilson
41. keeping politics out of public administration
42. E-Government
43. differences between public and private administrations/bureaucracies
44. comparable worth
45. public finance management
46. contracting out
47. user fees
48. what is a "fair" tax
49. property tax
50. taxes on sin
51. regressive and progressive taxes
52. user fees
53. balanced tax system
54. types of budgeting systems (line-item, performance, program, and zero base)
55. span of control
56. scientific management
57. Hawthorne effect
58. Human Relations school
59. theory x and y
60. Maslow's hierarchy of needs
61. organizational change
62. tall and flat structures
63. traits approach
64. leadership styles
65. situational approach
66. 1978 Ethics in Government Act
67. codes of ethics
68. laws affecting personnel hiring illustrated in the hiring simulation (Age Discrimination, Americans with Disabilities Act, Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity)

Thinking back over the entire course, discuss four separate concepts/ideas/methods we studied that you feel are important and explain how they can be useful to you in studying and understanding specific real things/people/events the political world around you. Write a separate paragraph about each concept/idea/method.