How are criteria used to evaluate public policy? Discuss the criteria that policy analysts use to evaluate an existing or proposed policy and the focus of each criterion.
What will be an ideal response?
Effectiveness, how well a policy will address the public problem it is designed to alleviate; efficiency, how well it works relative to the cost; equity, whether the policy affects subgroups of people equally; political feasibility, whether the policy will be acceptable in the eyes of government officials.
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According to Cook and Campbell (1979), one of the disadvantages of using experimental control to infer causation is
A) that it requires difficult and elaborate equipment. B) that we do not always want to learn about causation in controlled settings. C) that we do not always want to generalize our findings. D) that it requires the use of elaborate statistical techniques.
Using the Heinz ketchup example, write the following hypothesis in symbols : People are less willing to buy red ketchup than green ketchup
a. H1 ?(red ketchup) > ?(green ketchup) b. H0 ?(red ketchup) < ?(green ketchup) c. H1 ?(red ketchup) < ?(green ketchup) d. H0 ?(red ketchup) > ?(green ketchup)