Chapter 3: Policy Analysis

Question 1

10. Methods of policy analysis include all of the following except:

Accepted Answer

brand analysis

Question 2

The provision of social welfare benefits to individuals based on group membership is an example of a universalism.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 3

6. Which type of benefit offers the greatest degree of self-determination for client?

Accepted Answer

cash benefits

Question 4

Policy analysis is disciplined application of intellect to the study of collective responses to public problems.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 5

2. Identify the best description of practitioner policy analysis.

Accepted Answer

Policy research is tangential to their primary professional role

Question 6

8. The approach to policy analysis appropriate and useful for most social workers is:

Accepted Answer

practitioner policy analysis

Question 7

7. Public welfare benefits and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) are examples of?

Accepted Answer

universal public assistance program

Question 8

13. Policy analysis can be viewed as all of the following except:

Accepted Answer

Poetry

Question 9

5. Selective allocation of social welfare benefits is:

Accepted Answer

All of the above

Question 10

15. In a logical evaluation, a policy's internal rigor and consistency is assessed by looking at the:

Accepted Answer

All of the above

Question 11

4. Universal allocation of social welfare benefits is characterized by:

Accepted Answer

the creation of a right to the benefit

Question 12

12. 3-1Cross-national analysis is an example of:

Accepted Answer

comparative analysis

Question 13

There are no ethical implications of the selection of the type of benefit to be distributed in a social welfare program.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 14

The typical social worker has sufficient training to use research literature produced by policy analysis professionals

Accepted Answer

False

Question 15

1. Identify the best description of academic social science research and applied policy research.

Accepted Answer

Rigorously researched

Question 16

8. The approach to social welfare in the United States is best described as:

Accepted Answer

mixed public/voluntary/for-profit system

Question 17

11. The primary ways that benefits are financed include all except:

Accepted Answer

fund raisers such as bake sales and fun runs

Question 18

Comparative analysis involves comparison of client outcomes between two or more social welfare agencies.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 19

3. What are the four types of descriptive policy analysis?

Accepted Answer

Content, choice, comparative, and historical.

Question 20

14. In theory, which statement is most true of organizational accountability for social welfare services?

Accepted Answer

All of the above

Questions 20