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Emergence management offices have to send out early warnings before a disaster. During the 2017 Northern California wildfires, many residents in peril did not receive the warnings because their mobile phones lost service as transmission towers and lines were destroyed amid the fire. The fire highlighted the inadequacies of the emergency warning system. Two months after the fires, the officials pushed for new safety protocols to improve the reliability and coverage of their early warning system. One of the attempts was to broaden the warnings to include some 53,000 landlines gleaned from AT&T.   Which of the following explains the policy failure in the 2017 wildfire?

Continuing on Q30,  in terms of the social policy environment, describe a policy that you would expect to be of more importance for Prince William than Arlington. Show the data and explain why.

Based on the Chapter on Policy Implementation, Failure and Learning, identify three major explanations for policy failure and provide one example for each explanation identified.

Imagine you are a member of a congressional committee tasked with designing a new policy to address environmental pollution. What are the key elements you should consider to inform the policy design? Describe three elements. 

How is the new policy “24/7 Sobriety” different from previous ones to deal with drunk driving? And describe the causal theory and assumptions of the new tool. 

Data from the Phase 3 randomized controlled trial demonstrates that people who received the COVID-19 booster shot show a vaccine efficacy of 95% when compared to those who did not receive a booster.   This statement offers an example for which of the following concepts?

The business cycle diagram below shows the cyclical movement of actual real GDP relative to potential real GDP over time for the nation of Galactica.

Gross domestic product has been criticized as a measure of well-being because it fails to take into account which of the following?

According to the law of supply, which of the following is true as the price of a good or service decreases?

No independently confirmed significant bioeffects in mammalian tissues have been reported at unfocused intensities below: