QUESTION 1 Match the following terms. - administrative rules - agenda-setting - attentive public - bargaining - command - constituency - decision rules - deference - discretion - externalities - formulation - ideology - incrementalism - institution - institutional agenda - issue - legitimacy

A.	Strongly held preferences or standards that guide the conduct of people.
B.	Matters that are of real concern to only one (or a few) person(s).
C.	Written guidance (regulations) issued by an administrative agency that have the force and effect of law.
D.	A person who, through effort, persistence, or expenditure of resources, promotes action on policy issues, often successfully.
E.	Substances or activities whose costs (or benefits) are external to the process or transaction. Pollution is an example.
F.	A form of decision-making in which a person accepts, or defers to, the judgment of someone else.
G.	A regularized pattern of human behavior that persists over time and that performs an important task. The political party is an institution.
H.	What is of interest or benefit to people generally rather than particular groups or segments of the population.
I.	A set of problems or issues that public officials feel they should act on in some way.
J.	A set of problems of interest to the member of a particular governmental body, such as a legislature.
K.	See policy formation
L.	The exchange of support by persons interested in different matters often called mutual back-scratching.
M.	The ability of those in hierarchical positions to make decisions that are binding on subordinates.
N.	The various ways by which problems can gain a place on an agenda and attract the attention of policy-makers.
O.	Decision-making through a process of negotiation, give-and-take, and compromise.
P.	A theory of decision-making holding that decisions are usually based on limited analysis and involve marginal changes in existing policies.
Q.	The failure of government to take action on a problem or condition or to even meaningfully consider it.
R.	The quality of rightness or appropriateness that may characterize a government or a policy and enhance its acceptability and authoritativeness.
S.	Those groups, officials, and others that an agency or its officials take into account when making decisions.
T.	The total process by which public policies are developed and implemented. Also called policy process.
U.	Guidelines or rules of thumb that simplify decision-making on particular topics.
V.	The capacity of administrative officials to exercise choice on some topics because of authority delegated to them.
W.	The discharge or emission of substances into the environment that interfere with or prevent socially desired uses of the environment.
X.	Expressions of public attitudes or beliefs on political issues that public officials find it prudent to heed.
Y.	Problems that have a broad effect, including consequences for persons not directly involved.
Z.	The development of proposed courses of action or alternatives for dealing with public problems. (Also called policy formulation.)
AA.	Those persons who are especially interested in and informed about a public policy.
AB.	A condition or situation in society that causes people distress or dissatisfaction and for which relief is sought through government action.
AC.	The use of reason, facts, and logic to convince others of the correctness of ones position on an issue.
AD.	A more or less systematic set of values and beliefs that serves as a guide to action and understanding.
AE.	A policy problem about which the public seeks government action and for which there is disagreement about the solution.