PSCI 2305 Final Exam with Complete Solutions Graded A+
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PSCI 2305
PSCI 2305 Final Exam with Complete Solutions Graded A+
When did the federal government take a larger role in education policy - Answer-After WW2
Obama Initiatives in education - Answer-Waivers for NCLB requirements came with conditions, states required teacher evaluations with test results, C...
PSCI 2305 Final Exam with
Complete Solutions
Graded A+
When did the federal government take a larger role in education policy - Answer-After
WW2
Obama Initiatives in education - Answer-Waivers for NCLB requirements came with
conditions, states required teacher evaluations with test results, Common Core
Charter schools and who endorsed it - Answer-publicly funded schools that are free
from many rules and regulations in the school district, Obama
Pell Grant program - Answer-offered low-interest loans to college students
Higher Education Act - Answer-supplied assistance directly to colleges to provide need-
based grants to students
Pell Grant - Answer-program offered grants to low-income students
Affordable Care Act of 2010 - Answer-creation of new state-based insurance exchanges
and prohibition against denial of coverage by insurers, requires individuals to purchase
health insurance or risk paying a fine, expansion of Medicaid and SCHIP
National Federation of Independent Businesses v. Sebelius (2012) - Answer-The
requirement for individuals to purchase insurances was ruled legal under Congress's
taxing power
How federal housing policies have evolved - Answer-public housing projects were
replicated in the 1980's with vouchers, vouchers provide recipients with support to rent,
critics argue that vouchers provide too little money
Beneficiaries of Social Policy - Answer-Elderly, middle and upper classes, working poor,
nonworking poor
How the elderly benefits from social policy - Answer-Social Security and Medicare
, How middle and upper classes benefit from social policy - Answer-Shadow welfare
state, middle class benefits from the mortgage tax exemption
how the working poor benefits from social policy - Answer-ACA, Earned Income Tax
Credit, and SNAP, does not benefit from shadow welfare state and mortgage deduction
how the nonworking poor benefits from social policy - Answer-TANT, SNAP and
medicaid. Many states offer "general assistance" (cash assistance)
minorities, women and children - Answer-minorities are disproportionately poor, child
care is more likely to affect women
Three main goals of US foreign policy - Answer-Security, Economic Prosperity, Creation
of a Better World
non-state actors - Answer-organized groups other than nation-states that attempt to
play a role in the international system
Isolationism - Answer-the avoidance of involvement in the affairs of other nations
Monroe doctrine - Answer-Told Europe to stay out of the business of the Americas
Containment - Answer-a policy designed to curtail the political and military expansion of
a hostile power, designed to curtail the growing power of the Soviet Union
Preventative war - Answer-a policy of striking first if a nation fears that a foreign foe is
planning hostile action
Appeasement - Answer-an effort to forestall war by giving in to the demands of a hostile
power
mutually assured destruction - Answer-nuclear arsenal capable of destroying the world
many times
certainty - Answer-a potential adversary must know for certain that the US will respond
with force if attacked
rationality - Answer-a potential adversary must be capable of rationally assessing the
risks and costs of aggressions against the US
who controlled social welfare before the federal government? - Answer-local
governments, private charities, fraternal societies
undeserving poor - Answer-able-bodied people unwilling to work
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