STS 214 Quiz 3
Sts 214 quiz 3
- 1.In risk regulation at risk, shapiro and glicksman say that risk regulation legislation involves two choices by congress
- A.
Statutory triggers and statutory standards
- B.
Statutory triggers and statutory limitations
- C.
Statutory limitations and statutory standards
- D.
Statutory standards and statutory impositions
- 2.Shapiro & Glicksman, in risk regulation at risk, say that congress imposes statutory triggers of various kinds, which of the following is NOT one of those kinds
- A.
Risk and efficiency thresholds
- B.
Risk based thresholds
- C.
No threshold
- D.
Unreasonable risk threshold
- 3.In risk regulation at risk, shapiro & glicksman that congress tends to prefer which kinds of statutory standards?
- A.
Cost benefit and open ended standards
- B.
Open ended and constrained balancing standards
- C.
Constrained balancing and phaseout standards
- D.
Phaseout and cost benefit standards
- 4.Shapiro and glicksman, in risk regulation at risk, say that congress has
- A.
Generally avoided product or substance phaseouts
- B.
Regularly imposed product or substance phaseouts
- C.
Never imposed product or substance phaseouts
- D.
Increased reliance on phaseouts since the onset of the environment movement
- 5.In risk regulation at risk, Shapiro and glicksman say that congress generally requires
- A.
That costs of regulation not be considered
- B.
That costs of regulation cannot be measured, and thus cannot be required
- C.
That costs of regulation be taken into account by agencies
- D.
None of the above
- 6.Shapiro and glicksman, in risk regulation at risk, say that the critics of risk regulation have
- A.
Secured a number of administrative procedures that implement their rationality project
- B.
Failed to secure administrative procedures that implement their rationality project
- C.
Lost interest in securing a number of administrative procedures that implement their rationality project
- D.
None of the above
- 7.In risk regulation at risk, shapiro and glicksman say that the critics of risk regulation claim that the "irrational preferences" of the public requires
- A.
The elimination of public input in the risk decision process
- B.
That the public demands be "filtered" through decision making tools that add rationality to the process
- C.
The abandonment of all regulations
- D.
That we return to the "default" risk regulators: the court and markets
- 8.In risk regulation at risk, Shapiro and glicksman say that the complaint raised by critics of risk regulation, that risk policy has seen costs greatly exceed benefits,
- A.
Must be taken seriously by pragmatists
- B.
Can be ignored by pragmatists
- C.
Is driven by political ideology
- D.
Is correct
- 9.Shapiro and glicksman, in risk regulation at risk, say that "comprehensive rationality" is
- A.
Essential in pragmatic risk policy
- B.
Now possible thanks to modern computers
- C.
Impossible
- D.
None of the above
- 10.In risk regulation at risk, shapiro and glicksman say that the concept of "bounded rationality" means that
- A.
Decision making is limited by time, resources, and cognitive ablities
- B.
Decision makers should follow market discipline
- C.
Policy makers should carefully measure public opinion while making decisions
- D.
Real policy making about risk is "bounded" by political constraints
- 11.In risk regulation at risk, shapiro and glicksman say that pragmatists accept
- A.
That the comprehensive rationality should be the basis of risk management
- B.
That at degree of "muddling through" is inevitable in risk policy
- C.
"incremental decision making" is never appropriate
- D.
"incremental decision making" is merely disguised politics
- 12.In risk regulation at risk, shapiro and glicksman say that a pragmatic approach to risk management favors
- A.
The promotion of public participation in risk decisions
- B.
The reduction of public participation in risk decisions, because of widespread public irrationality
- C.
Limiting the public participation to organized interest groups, only
- D.
None of the above
- 13.In risk regulation at risk, shapiro and glicksman say that pragmatic risk regulations
- A.
Take costs into account as accurately as cost benefit analysis
- B.
Take costs into account, when required to by law
- C.
Take costs into account, but not in the manner prescribed by economic theory
- D.
None of the above
- 14.In risk regulation at risk, shapiro and glicksman say that there have been noticeable, and in some cases dramatic, reduction in risk posed by modern technology since the
- A.
1960's
- B.
1970's
- C.
1980's
- D.
1990's
- 15.In Risk Regulation at Risk, Shapiro and Glicksman say that regulators sometimes mis-use their discretion, and therefore
- A.
Bureaucratic discretion should be eliminated completely
- B.
We should just ignore these rare occurences
- C.
We should preserve bureaucratic discretion, while making regulator accountable
- D.
Regulations should use a strictly enforced cost-benefit analysis
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