Bureaucracy
The effort by Congress to exercise control over the activities of executive agencies
What is oversight?
The formal request to have the Supreme Court review a lower court decision
What is a writ of certiorari?
These are the people who have the right to vote in US elections
Who are all citizens over the age of 18?
The system used to allocate votes for electing the President
What is the Electoral College?
An anonymous op-ed published by the New York Times discussed the internal “resistance” against this presidential administration
What is the Trump administration?
Implementing laws, making and enforcing rules, and settling disputes
What are the roles of bureaucracy?
These courts hear nearly 99% of all court cases
What are state trial courts?
The United States most commonly employs this method of electoral districting
What is single-member districting?
This is the strongest predictor of how a person will vote
What is party identification?
She is the first Alaska Native to serve in Congress
Who is Mary Peltola?
Government agencies that function more like private businesses because they perform and charge for a market service
What are government corporations?
The landmark USSC case that established judicial review
This process, which adds eligible voters to a list of all interested voters in a given district was made easier after the 1993 passing of the “motor voter” law
What is voter registration?
This example of the principal-agent problem is specific to issues of government agencies acting on their own interests rather than the wishes of elected officials and their constituents
What is bureaucratic drift?
What is the thermostatic model?
Agencies that influence the amount of money in the economy and who has it
What are agencies of redistribution?
A plaintiff or defendant in a civil or criminal case seeks to show that their case involves the powers of the government or the rights of citizens
When does a case become a matter of public law?
According to this law, plurality rule creates two-party politics
What is Duverger's Law?
Comparative ideology between justices on the Supreme Court is based on these types of cases
What are non-unanimous cases?
Mary Ziegler responded to Kavanaugh's concurrence in the NYT and argued that this aspect of the court is at stake with the overruling of Roe
What is the Court's legitimacy?
Theory that explains coalitional drift
What is a collective-action problem?
The logic of this clause in the Constitution gives the Supreme Court the power to review state actions.
What is the supremacy clause of Article VI?
These political financing groups were established after the 1971 Federal Elections Campaign Act, and were formed to regulate how businesses, unions, and other organizations make political contributions
What are Political Action Committees (PACs)?
This is the date and time of your upcoming exam
What is Wednesday October 19 at 11am?
This government agency spends the most on contractors for rulemaking support
What is the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)?