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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:

If an echo arrives 130 microseconds after the pulse that produced it was emitted, the reflector should be located at a depth of ________ cm. If a second pulse was emitted 13 microseconds before the arrival of this echo, it will be placed incorrectly at a depth of __________ cm.

What is this type of color map?