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AP US Government

Category - Public Policy

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One of the difficulties of policy evaluation comes from the fact that:
  1. There is no single agreed-on method of evaluating policy.
  2. There is no pool of experts trained in policy evaluation.
  3. Scholars attempt to be unbiased.
  4. Congress seldom allocates funding for evaluation of its policies.
  5. The President doesn’t allow the bureaucracies to evaluate their own work.
Explanation
Answer: A - One of the difficulties of policy evaluation comes from the fact that there is no single agreed-on method of evaluating policy. In other words, evaluating policy effectiveness gets very tricky because there are a whole lot of ways one could look at it. Suppose you are evaluating Medicaid. Do you measure success by the number of people in the program? Or by how much is being spent on it? Or by the health of the people in the program? All of these are legitimate things to measure, but they could lead to different conclusions about the program’s effectiveness.
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