Objective question areas:

1. reasons for anger of voters in recent elections
2. importance of cultural values in meeting challenges
3. individualism as a cultural value in America
4. community and freedom as a paradox
5. Louis L'Amour
6. values in movie "It's a Wonderful Life"
7. large centralized corporate consumerist capitalism
8. de Tocqueville
9. how Americans compensate for lack of community
10. ESOP
11. definition of public policy
12. types of policies
13. means testing
14. cost-benefit analysis
15. models of policy making
16. which policy-making model is best
17. administrative discretion in implementing policies
18. Prohibition as a failed policy
19. types of policy evaluation and problems with each
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. size of the federal bureaucracy
39. Woodrow Wilson
40. keeping politics out of public administration
41. E-Government
42. differences between public and private administrations/bureaucracies
43. comparable worth
44. public finance management
45. contracting out
46. user fees
47. what is a "fair" tax
48. property tax
49. taxes on sin
50. regressive and progressive taxes
51. user fees
52. balanced tax system
53. types of budgeting systems (line-item, performance, program, and zero base)
54. span of control
55. scientific management
56. Hawthorne effect
57. Human Relations school
58. theory x and y
59. Maslow's hierarchy of needs
60. organizational change
61. tall and flat structures
62. traits approach
63. leadership styles
64. situational approach
65. 1978 Ethics in Government Act
66. codes of ethics
67. uses of fiction in political science
68. characters in BNW
69. lessons in BNW about dangers of technology

1. four major steps in the policy making process, describing each step

2. the idea of democratic capitalism (describe and explain how it was to help solve problems faced by the U.S.)

3. the defining characteristics of bureaucracy -- describe and explain each one

4. How Brave New World was designed to deal with major problems that exist in our society (scarcity, overpopulation, crime, family problems like child abuse, sexual conflicts, poverty, unhappiness, death, disease, work dissatisfaction, war, religious conflicts)