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Students Zone - Self test questions
Use these questions both to test your detailed knowledge of each chapter. Make a note of your answers and then consult the answers page on this website. If you score less than 12 correct answers for any chapter, you probably need to spend more time re-reading and revising its contents.
CHAPTER 19: Understanding Policy Under Multi-Level Governance
1. The insight that policy is a process means
a) All policy is continually fluid
b) No policy is ever finally made
c) Policies emerge in a continuous stream
2. Theory is:
a) Always necessary when we think about policy
b) Never necessary when we thing about policy
c) Often necessary when we think about policy
3. Rational choice is:
a) A prescriptive model of policy making
b) A descriptive model of policy making
c) Both a prescriptive and a descriptive model
4. Michael Heseltine's MINIS system was a:
a) Rational choice model of policy
b) An incrementalist model of policy
c) A mixture of rational choice and incrementalism
5. Rational choice institutionalism:
a) Assumes actors always pursue their own private interests
b) Assumes that they pursue the interests of the institution for which they work
c) Is open minded about the motives that shape actors' behaviour
6. 'Governance' pictures policy making as:
a) Taking place in numerous interconnected networks
b) Taking place in well defined hierarchies
c) A process of 'muddling through'
7. 'Multi-level' governance in the UK:
a) Is a completely novel development
b) Has become more important in recent years
c) Has not changed greatly in importance in recent years
8. In multi-level governance the source of authority:
a) Is never clear
b) May not be clear
c) Is always clear
9. Struggles over 'turf' in multi-level governance generally refer to
a) Struggles for control of physical territory
b) Struggles for control over budgets
c) Struggles for control over policy areas
10. Power is:
a) Always revealed fully by the study of decisions
b) Never revealed by the study of decisions
c) Sometimes revealed by the study of decisions
11. Non-decisions are:
a) Easily investigated
b) Hard to investigate
c) Impossible to investigate
12. The 'policy agenda' refers to:
a) The written priorities of government
b) The range of issues subject to debate and decision at any one time among those concerned with policy
c) The unwritten priorities of government
13. Policy failure:
a) Is virtually impossible to identify
b) Is easy to identify
c) Can be identified, but with some difficulty
14. The Millennium Dome:
a) Was a policy success
b) Was a policy failure
c) It is too soon to make a judgement about its success or failure
15. The 'risk society' refers to:
a) The clear increase in the range of risks we all face
b) The growing sense that risk is all around us
c) The necessity to take risks in policy making
