POP1
"Path Dependency" is a feature of this POP.
What is the History Principle?
Past Supreme Court rulings like Brown v. Board of Education continue to affect legal decisions on education and racial equality today.
How does precedent reflect the History Principle?
Shifting power from Congress to administrative agencies exemplifies this key institutional process.
What is bureaucratic delegation?
The number of U.S. District Courts.
What is 94?
Dr. J's favorite baseball team.
Who are the NY Yankees?
This principle suggests that politicians, voters, and bureaucrats act with specific goals in mind.
What is the Rationality Principle?
Individuals benefit from group efforts but may not contribute, a phenomenon known as this.
What is free riding?
Bureaucrats can be thought of as pursuing this goal.
What is (job security, increased budgets, power).
This Article of the U.S. Constitution outlines the Federal Judiciary.
What is Article 3?
Dr. J's favorite NHL team.
Who are the NY Islanders?
This principle states that formal and informal rules shape political behavior.
What is the Institution Principle?
This term describes the idea that individuals weigh costs and benefits before taking political action.
What is rational choice?
The tendency of interest groups to form close relationships with bureaucrats and legislators, influencing policy.
What is bureaucratic capture?
This model of judicial decisionmaking holds that justices make decisions mainly based on precedent.
What is the Legal Model?
The name of the NU app that launches the screens in the classroom.
What is Solstice?
This principle suggests that political decisions result from the mix of personal interests and governmental processes.
What is the Policy Principle?
The way legislative rules shape policy outcomes, such as requiring a supermajority to override a filibuster, is an example of this principle.
What is the Institution Principle?
This occurs when bureaucrats use their expertise to shift policy outcomes toward their preferences, away from elected officials’ intent.
What is bureaucratic drift?
This person/position argues cases before the U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of the U.S. government.
Who is the U.S. Solicitor General (currently Sarah Harris, acting)?
Staffed by 179 judges, there are 13 courts of this type in the federal judiciary.
What are U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeals?
This principle explains why governments struggle to get individuals to contribute to public goods.
What is the Collective Action Principle?
A law passes through Congress but is then struck down by the Supreme Court, illustrating how policy is shaped by both preferences and procedures.
What is the Policy Principle?
This term describes the relationship between institutional actors (such as Congress and the Bureaucracy) in making policy decisions where one is subordinate to the other.
What is the principal-agent relationship?
This type of jurisdiction mandates that the U.S. Supreme Court must be the first and last court of resort to hear specific kinds of cases outlined in the U.S. Constitution.
What is Original Jurisdiction?
The most senior Supreme Court Justice and the most junior Supreme Court Justice.
Who are Clarence Thomas and Ketanji Brown Jackson?