The Intentional Use of Governmental Power to Achieve or Support

question 87

Multiple Choice

The intentional use of governmental power to achieve or support specific goals and objectives is defined as ______.

• A)policy agenda
• B)policy gridlock
• C)public policy
• D)public law

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Definitions:

Oedipal Conflicts

A psychoanalytic term describing a child's feelings of desire for the opposite-sex parent and jealousy and envy toward the same-sex parent.

Electra Complex

A psychoanalytic concept involving a girl's psychosexual competition with her mother for possession of her father.

Castration Fear

A psychological fear often associated with the anxiety of losing one's power or masculinity, typically linked to Freudian psychoanalytic theory.

Sexual Object

An object or a person that is the focus of one's sexual desire or attraction.