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🫘Intro to Public Policy
Key Terms

277 essential vocabulary terms and definitions to know for your Intro to Public Policy exam

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A

Aaron Wildavsky
Absolute Poverty
Accountable care organizations
Accreditation agencies
Accreditation standards
Achievement gap
Active labor market policies
Actuarial surplus
Adaptive Management
Adaptive Model
Adaptive policymaking frameworks
Adequate Yearly Progress
Administrative Capacity
Administrative feasibility
Administrative Procedure Act
Advocacy coalition
Advocacy groups
Affirmative action policies
Affordable Care Act
Affordable housing initiatives
Affordable housing policies
Age-friendly cities and communities
Agricultural subsidies
Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC)
Algorithmic bias
Amartya Sen
Anti-discrimination legislation
Anti-globalization movement
Artificial intelligence
Attribution problem

B

Backward mapping
Basel Accords
Baseline measurement
Bilateral agreements
Bounded rationality
Budget Impact Analysis
Bundled payments
Bureau of Land Management
Bureaucratic capacity

C

Cap-and-Trade
Capacity-building
Capital mobility
Capture Theory
Carbon tax
Carol Weiss
Categorical Funding
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG)
Climate Action Plans
Climate change policy
Climate-related migration
Collaborative governance
Collective Bargaining Rights
Commons dilemma
Community Health Centers
Community partnerships
Community-based care
Conditional Cash Transfers
Conflict of Interest
Constraining Dissensus
Constructivist theory
Consumer Price Index (CPI)
Coordination Mechanisms
Cost per outcome
Cost-sharing
Culturally competent care
Cybersecurity policy

D

Data breaches
Data privacy
Data reliability
Decision trees
Defense and foreign affairs policies
Defined Benefit Plan
Deliberative democracy
Deontology