Exam 1
Power in hands of elite
What is oligarchy
538 total votes- 270 to win
what is the electoral college
Who killed Fred Hampton
FBI and Chicago Police
cold as you, white horse, dear john, all too well, all you had to do was stay, delicate, archer, my tears richocet, tolerate it
what is track five
Power in hands of people: participatory vs representative
What is democracy
Difference between Pac and Super pac
donating limits
Explainn difference between civil Rights and civil liberties
liberty: govt should NOT intrude
rights: right to be free from unequal tx
A clue given about what may come next
what is an easter egg
Explain Federalism
◦Two or more governments have power in same territory
◦Powers: exclusive or shared
◦Two common representations
◦Dual federalism
◦Cooperative federalism
◦Dual Federalism
◦Four essential parts
◦National government rules by enumerated powers
◦National government has limited set of constitutional purposes
◦Each government unit is sovereign within its sphere
◦Relationship between nation and states best characterized by tension not cooperation
◦State’s rights
◦Implied powers
◦Layer-cake federalism
List the three campagin strategies
party centered: •Relies on voter’s party ID and party’s organization to get elected
issue oriented: Seeks support from groups that feel strongly about issue(s)
candidate oreinted: •Depends on candidates perceived personal qualities (leadership)
Explain Plessy V Ferguson
•Louisiana enacted the Separate Car act which meant Black and White citizens had to ride in separate cars (segregation, form of Jim Crow)
•Homer Plessey, a biracial man rode in the white car and was arrested when he refused to leave.
•This case went to the Supreme Court saying 14th amendment right was violated and Plessey had equal protection under the law
•Court ruled, “separate but equal”
•This ‘ideal/precedent’ would later lead to Brown vs Board of Education
A song/songs being placed onto a re-recorded album years later
what are vault tracks
Describe the three different distribution shapes
skewed, bi-modal, normal
•Primary: election to choose candidate for party
•Closed Primary: Voters must declare party affiliation before voting. Dems will vote for Dems; Reps vote for Reps•
Open Primary: no need to declare party affiliation
•Modified Open: Independent parties can vote in primary for any office
•Modified Closed: allows individual state parties to decide if independents can vote in their primaries and if so for what offices (remember, in closed primaries, Dems vote Dem and Reps vote Rep) (Also think Libertarian, Green Party)
Explain Iron Triangle
congress, interest grouup, bureaucracy
dom perignon you brought it. no crowd of friends applauded
what is champagne problems
When did opinion polling begin?
What is 1930s
Name 5 things needed in every bureaucracy
hierarchy
specialization
explicit rules
merit
neutral competence
Describe policy making process
agenda setting
policy formulation
implementation
evaluation
feedback
But he is actually cruel
who is jake gyllenhall