Assignment:
QUESTION 1 According to Irene Rubin, executive and legislative budget powers
- Are exactly equal at the federal level.
- Differ depending on the nature of the Chief Executive's veto power.
- Are generally consolidated in the legislature at the state level.
- None of the above.
QUESTION 2 The federal budgeting process
- Can more accurately be considered two loosely linked processes.
- Involves the annual approval of expenditures by the appropriations committees.
- Involves approval of expenditures that are not subject to annual approval by the appropriations committees.
- All of the answers
- None of the answers
QUESTION 3 State and local governments
- Generally have less complicated but more fragmented decision-making.
- Generally have more complicated but less fragmented decision-making.
- Generally have a process that is dominated by the legislative branch.
- Generally have a process that is dominated by the executive branch.
- None of the above.
QUESTION 4 Please explain in detail your answer to the question above.
- According to Irene Rubin, the public budgeting process
- Is relatively unimportant because it is based on generally accepted accounting principles.
- Is less important than spending or taxing policy.
- Has substantial impacts on the distribution of political power and public policy outcomes.
- All of the above.
- None of the above.
QUESTION 5 Political actors often view the opportunity to shape the budget process
- As a method of influencing who more often wins and looses in what they see as a competition for government recourses.
- As a method of carrying out large shifts in public policy.
- As a method of achieving political gains for their political party.
- All of the above.Only 1 and 3 above