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1 Exam is December 6, the last day of class, in our regular classroom in McCarty Hall at 9:35. MATERIAL ON THE TEST: Chapters 12, 15, 14, 7, 16, 17 in Edwards textbook, and Sides and Kalev, The Media Giveth, and the Media Taketh Away, in The Science of Trump (Kindle reader) 43 multiple choice questions worth 1 point each and a few (at least two, possibly more) extra credit problems. You should know all the underlined terms with links to definitions in the textbook (with a few exceptions those not on the study guide). These are also in the margins of the hard copy of the e-text. Ones not on the study are simply terms I don t think are particularly important for purposes of this class, such as some of the terms in section 15.1 of Chapter 15. CHAPTER 12 Section 12.1: You don t need to know the details in Table 12.1 about recent presidents Twenty Second Amendment Twenty Fifth Amendment Impeachment: (know what the constitution says about impeachment -- under what circumstances presidents shall be removed), and how the process works in the House and Senate Watergate Section 12.2: Know the constitutional powers of the president (Table 12.3) Section 12.3: Executive orders Cabinet National Security Council Council of Economic Advisers Office of Management and Budget Know the 3 functions served by the different office in the White House Section 12.4: Veto Pocket veto Line-item veto (in text in paragraph after the one discussing the veto and pocket veto) Section 12.5: War Powers Resolution Legislative veto 1
2 General questions for chapter 12: On which four points is there general agreement regarding impeachment, according to the authors? (Section 12.1) How are presidents different from prime ministers? (Section 12.2) Know the different forms of organization that presidents employ (Section 12.3) How common is it for presidential vetos to be overridden by Congress? (Table 12.5, Section 12.4) How do presidents relate to their party in Congress? Why do Congressional members of the president s party tend to support him, and what are the obstacles to presidents having the support of his party in Congress? What assets do presidents have as party leader and how useful are they? (Section 12.4) How does public support for the president matter? (Section 12.4) How important are presidential bargaining, moving fast, and setting priorities for presidential success? How much can presidents legislative skills influence members of Congress? (Section 12.4) Know what the president s role as chief diplomat involve, particularly with regard to treaties and executive agreements (Section 12.5) What typically happens to presidential approval ratings over time? (Figure 12.3 in Section 12.6) What do the authors say about news coverage of the president? How does the press portray the president? (Section 12.7) What influence does the president have on the scope of government? (Section 12.8) CHAPTER 15 Section 15.1: Amicus curiae Section 15.2 Know the organization of the federal court system (Figure 15.1) Original jurisdiction Appellate jurisdiction District courts Court of appeals Supreme Court Know how cases make it to the Supreme Court (Figure 15.3) Section 15.3: Senatorial courtesy Section 15.5: Solicitor general Opinion (know not just majority opinion but also dissenting and concurring opinions, discussed in the paragraphs following gthe one with the term opinion in the margin). 2
3 Stare decisis Precedent Originalism (original intent theory and original meaning theory) Judicial implementation Section 15.6: Marbury v. Madison Judicial review Section 15.7: Judicial restraint Judicial activism Political questions Statutory construction General questions for chapter 15: Know how terms for U.S. Supreme Court justices differ from those of judges in other countries (Table 15.2 in Section 15.3) How has the nomination process changed in the Senate over time? (Section 15.3) What is the typical background for a federal judge? (Section 15.4) How does the Supreme Court decide which cases to place on the docket? What kinds of cases is it most likely to select? What factors make it more or less likely that the Court will accept a case? Are courts a democratic institution? Are they independent of popular preferences? (Section 15.7) CHAPTER 14 Bureaucracy (in Introduction section before Section 14.1) Section 14.1: Patronage Pendleton Civil Service Act Civil service Merit principle Hatch Act Office of Personnel Management GS (General Schedule) rating Senior Executive Service Section 14.2: Independent regulatory commission Government corporation Independent executive agency Section 14.3: Policy implementation Standard operating procedures 3
4 Administrative discretion Street-level bureaucrats Section 14.4: Regulation Command-and-control policy Incentive system Deregulation Section 14.5: Executive orders Iron triangles General questions for chapter 14: What are some myths about bureaucracy? (Section 14.1) Where are most non-postal federal bureaucrats employed? (Figure 14.1 in Section 14.1) Why does implementation break down/not work? (Section 14.3) Why did implementation succeed in the case of the Voting Rights Act? (Section 14.3) What means do the president and Congress use to try to control the bureaucracy? (section 14.5) What do the authors say about bureaucracy and the scope of government? (Section 14.6) CHAPTER 7 Section 7.1: Mass media Media events Press conferences Investigative journalism Print media Electronic media Narrowcasting Selective exposure Chains Section 7.2: Beats Trial balloons Sound bites Section 7.3: Policy agenda Policy entrepreneurs General questions for chapter 7: 4
5 How does the government regulate the electronic media through the FCC? (Section 7.1) What has been the impact of the Internet, according to the authors? (Section 71.) What are the criteria that influence which stories get covered? (Section 7.2 and also the previous paragraph, in Section 7.1, entitled Private Control of the Media). What do the authors argue about bias in the news? (Section 7.2) How do the media affect public opinion? (Section 7.3) How do the media influence the scope of government? (Section 7.5) CHAPTER 16 Introduction (Before Section 16.1): Social welfare policies Section 16.1: Unemployment rate Underemployment rate Inflation Consumer price index Laissez-faire Monetary policy Monetarism Federal Reserve System Fiscal policy Keynesian economic theory Supply-side economics Section 16.2: Entitlement programs Means-tested programs Section 16.3: Income distribution Relative deprivation Poverty line Feminization of poverty Progressive tax Proportional tax Regressive tax Earned Income Tax Credit Transfer payments Section 16.4: Social Security Act of 1946 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Section 16.5: 5
6 Social Security Trust Fund General questions for chapter 16: How do the authors say government affects income? (Section 16.3) What are some of the reforms that have been proposed to Social Security and why are these reforms being proposed? (Section 16.5) How is American social welfare policy different from that of other established democracies? (Section 16.6, including Figure 16.5) What do the authors say about economic and social welfare policies and the scope of government? (Section 16.7) CHAPTER 17 Section 17.1 Health maintenance organization (HMO) National health insurance Medicare Medicaid Section 17.2 Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) National Environmental Policy Act (1969) Environmental impact statement (EIS) Clean Air Act of 1970 Water Pollution Control Act Endangered Species Act of 1973 Superfund Global warming General questions for chapter 17: Why are health care costs so high in the US? (Section 17.1) What did the Affordable Care of Act of 2010 do? (Section 17.1) What do scientists believe about global warming? (Section 17.2) SCIENCE OF TRUMP (Kindle book) Sides and Kalev, Chapter 17, The Media Giveth, and the Media Taketh Away Questions: How did the media help Trump win the primaries, according to the authors? Why do the authors think Trump received so much more media attention than his Republican rivals? What was the tone of coverage of Trump (positive or negative)? 6
7 Among which media consumers was the coverage of Trump most beneficial to him? 7
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