Compare and contrast command and control policies with the cap and trade system. Be sure to provide a definition of both and discuss how they affect environmental policy.

What will be an ideal response?

Command and control policies: pollution control system in which a government directly regulates the specific amount of pollution each polluting entity is allowed; cap and trade system: market-based pollution control system in which the government sets an overall limit on how much of a pollutant is acceptable and issues vouchers to pollute to each company, which companies are then free to trade.

Political Science

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A method of budgeting that focuses on requested increases in funding for existing programs, accepting as legitimate their previous year's expenditures, is __________

a. adjudication b. incremental budgeting c. outsourcing d. bureaucratic budgeting

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______ is more limited than the rational comprehensive approach in the extent of analysis required.

Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).

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