Domestic Policy
This event, considered one of the worst economic periods in history, changed the population's view on the government's role in the economy.
What is the Great Depression?
The United States has more elections more frequently. This can lead to voters stop participating in elections because they are tired of voting.
Conservatives tend to believe the government should be ______ involved in social issues and _____ involved in economic issues.
Liberals tend to believe the government should be _____ involved in social issues and ____ involved in economic issues
More/less
Less/more
This acronym is used to identify the wealth of a country by measuring the monetary value of all goods and services.
Spreading health care costs by having more people within the pool of paying 'customers' helps to bring down costs. This was the rational for this law.
What is the Affordable Care Act (ACA)?
These are the goals of economic policy.
(Name 2, any after are bonus)
What are (1) Maintaining economic growth, (2) controlling inflation, (3) budgetary discipline, (4) maintaining a healthy balance of trade, (5) avoiding negative externalities, (6) ensuring economic vibrancy.
The 'franchise' (legal right to vote) has been expanded frequently throughout the history of the United States. These are some of the limitations that have been lifted.
(Name 2, every extra is 100 points)
What are property, religion, gender, race, and age
Social scientists use these surveys to measure political attitudes across a population
BONUS: Name 2 challenges to these surveys
What are public opinion polls?
1. Getting responses
2. Sampling size & diversity
3. Random sampling
4. Wording
5. Intensity
6. Timing
7.
This type of spending is tied to a formula and is not affected by annual bills.
BONUS: This type of spending is not formulaic and instead relies on appropriations bills for funding.
What is mandatory spending?
What is discretionary spending?
This is statistical uncertainty within public opinion polls that occurs because you can't survey every person in the United States.
What is sampling error?
These tools of economic policy are used to stimulate or cool the economy.
What is fiscal and monetary policy?
A primary election and a nominating caucus are different in one significant way.
What is that a nominating caucus is local meetings where votes are then cast?
This part of identity is often influenced by social cues expressed by party leadership that indicate the support or rejection of specific policies.
BONUS: Name 2 other factors that influence political opinions
What is partisanship?
Religion, Race & Ethnicity, Gender, Geography
As the national debt grows and the government runs a deficit instead of a surplus, it issues these long-term securities to borrow money from investors.
What are treasury bonds?
The 2008 Great Recession is believed to have been caused by a focus on lessening the involvement of government in economic sectors, including finance and transportation.
What is deregulation?
Social security, Medicare, Medicaid, SNAP, and Pell Grants are examples of this kind of program.
BONUS: Name the 2 types of these programs
What are federal safety net programs?
The electoral competition voting model suggests that "parties compete for votes by taking the most popular position on an issue". This is the potential problem with this theory
BONUS: Name 3 of these problems
What are pressures preventing parties from moving to the middle?
1. Financial contributors are more likely to be extreme
2. Primaries only allow party members to vote, who are more likely to be extreme
3. Voters lie towards the edge of the ideological spectrum
This belief states that public opinion tends to remain steady over time, and when it shifts, it usually reflects clear reactions to events, changing conditions, or new information
What is the rational public?
Progressive taxation, where higher-income individuals are taxed at a higher rate, was implemented to try to ease the burden of tax on lower income individuals and families. Due to this, written into tax code, the United State's progressive taxation is actually less progressive as it seems.
What are loopholes and exceptions?
These barriers to voting lead to low turnout among the majority of American citizens.
What are registration requirements, timing of Election Day, and the complexity of voting?
This type of policy, originally receiving bipartisan support, focuses on regulation of industry and protection of natural resources.
What is environmental policy?
This political entity, written into the Constitution, contain representatives from each state according to the amount of representatives in both chambers of Congress. Most states send the entirety of their representatives based on the popular votes,
BONUS: What two states don't do a 'winner-takes-all' system?
What is the Electoral College?
What are Maine and Nebraska?
Rally-round-the-flag effect, the honeymoon phase, and perception of the economy all influence this.
What is presidential job approval rating?
Policymakers face this major challenge when trying to reduce the deficit or create a surplus, because Americans tend to oppose both main options—increasing taxes and cutting government spending.
What is the challenge of balancing the federal budget?
(find how much they would pay)
0 - 10,000 (1%)
10,001 - 30,000 (10%)
30,001 - 50,000 (15%)
50,000 - 70,000 (20%)
70,000 - 90,000 (25%)
What is $10,100?