Author Question: _______ is defined by Professors Peter Bachrach and Morton S. Baratz as a means by which demands for ... (Read 85 times)

09madisonrousseau09 · **on:** Jul 12, 2018

_______ is defined by Professors Peter Bachrach and Morton S. Baratz as a means by which demands for change in the existing allocation of benefits and privileges in the community can be suffocated before they are even voiced; or kept covert; or killed before they gain access to the relevant decision-making arena; or failing all these things, maimed or destroyed in the decision-implementing stage of the policy process.

a. Problem creation
b. Policy formulation
c. Agenda-setting
d. Nondecision-making

Question 2

In his study of presidential agenda setting, Professor Paul Light found that in selecting major domestic issues on which to advocate action, presidents are motivated by three primary considerations. What are those considerations?

a. international reputation, historical achievement, and crisis aversion
b. electoral benefits, crisis aversion, resolvability
c. electoral benefits, historical achievement, and good policy
d. good policy, international reputation, and electoral benefits