Matching. You will be asked to match names and concepts with some type of identification. Some or all of the following will be on your test.

18. In general, which level of government relies most heavily on individual and corporate income taxes?

19. Which level of government relies most heavily upon real property taxes?

20. Concerns about whether a tax is progressive or regressive reflect what type of revenue issue?

21. The idea that government spending and tax policy can be used to influence the boom and bust tendencies of the business cycle is referred to using what name?

22. What did the l974 Budget and Impoundment Control Act do? What federal entities were created?

23. The idea that programs should be terminated at some future date unless reauthorized by statute is referred to by what term?

24. What methods of budgeting do the different PA perspectives favor?

25. Which perspective uses adjudicatory procedures the most?

26. What is mixed scanning as a decision technique?

27. Distinguish between policy outputs and impacts.

28. Who are the three main sets of actors in congressional budgeting>

29. Which agency that represents the president in the budget process with Congress and federal agencies?

30. The Gramm-Rudman and Budget Enforcement Act made what kind of changes in federal budgeting?

31. What is meant by uncontrollable spending?

32. The type of budget adopted to rectify chaotic lump-sum appropriations was what?

33. What types of budgeting are associated with the different PA perspectives?

34. Studying the way a particular policy or program is implemented is referred to as what?

35. When researchers/analysts ask "How much will it cost to treat one more case?" they are raising the question of what?

36. What are sunset and sunshine laws? Why are they used?

37. An emphasis on cost-effectiveness studies reflects which approach to PA?

38. The political perspective on budgeting transfers the locus of power where? Managerial perspective?

39. In theory, a budget that disregards the concept of "base" and starts from zero each budget cycle is what?

40. What is a mandate?

41. Identifying goals, alternatives for their achievement, and evaluating the relative effectiveness of the alternatives is an example of what approach to decision making?

42. Decision making that emphasizes coalition building, compromise and vague goals is called what?

43. The managerial approach to policy evaluation favors research and evaluation that is controlled by whom?

44.What forces have encouraged policy analysis in the past few decades?

45.  What is performance budgeting?

46.  What did the Government Performance and Results Act require?

47.  How do the perspectives on PA forge agreement on policy analysis and evaluation?

48.  What are recommended practices in monitoring government contract practices?

49.  What pitfalls should we try to avoid in using evaluation research?