FINAL

Question 1

What is Institutional Advertising?

Answer 1

the advertising of an organization, company, or type of product so that people have a positive opinion of it, rather than the advertising of a particular product or service

Question 2

What do Lobbyists do?

Answer 2

help the legislature and create indirect pressure for candidates (schmoozers)

Question 3

What do Lobbyists NOT do?

Answer 3

they do not nominate candidates to run for office

Question 4

Is lobbying legal?

Answer 4

Yes, because it’s protected under the U.S. Constitution

Question 5

What is an Iron Triangle and what is an example?

Answer 5

comprises the policy-making relationship among the congressional committees, the bureaucracy, and interest groups

legislative committee, interest group, and an executive agency

Question 6

What group was founded in 1909 that spread awareness for the civil rights of colored people?

Answer 6

the NAACP

Question 7

What do Anglican Christians have great effect on?

Answer 7

American politics

Question 8

How many PACs were there in the U.S. in 2012?

Answer 8

over 5,000

Question 9

what does agency representation mean in terms of legislation?

Answer 9

the people choose a representative to carry out their wishes in Congress

Question 10

What is an incumbent?

Answer 10

someone who holds the political office

Question 11

What is reapportionment?

Answer 11

the process of dividing the number of State representatives and senators among the State’s population in order to assure, as close as possible, districts of equal size

Question 12

Why is there such a small amount of women in Congress?

Answer 12

incumbent allows the people in Congress to continuously be re-elected

Question 13

What is Constituency service?

Answer 13

the general term for what parliamentarians do to serve and represent the interests of their constituents

Question 14

Who is the top leader in the house in the majority party?

Answer 14

the speaker

Question 15

Is Congressional oversight a tool of partisan politics?

Answer 15

YAASSS

Question 16

which article of the seven articles of the constitution covers the executive branch?

Answer 16

Article 2

Question 17

what kind of powers derive for the rights duties and obligations of the presidency?

Answer 17

inherent powers

Question 18

What did the framers of the Constitution want?

Answer 18

framers wanted the executive branch to be the weakest one but it is now the strongest because the world has become complex

Question 19

What did the War Power Act do?

Answer 19

the congress can limit the war or stop a military action

Question 20

What is NOT a typical American Interest Group?

Answer 20

Potential Interest Groups

Question 21

What did the house of ways and means have and do?

Answer 21

entitlement, taxes, trade, and control of money

Question 22

What are four joint committees in Congress?

Answer 22

Ex. Agriculture, Armed Services, TAXATION, Intelligence

Question 23

Has party unity gone up or down in recent years?

Answer 23

UP

Question 24

What is the difference between log rolling and pork barreling?

Answer 24

logrolling is exchanging of favors such as trading votes to gain passage of actions of interest to each legislative member

pork rolling example: a political candidate would climb on an inverted pork barrel on the street corner by the local general store to address the crowd.

Question 25

Do federal accords have an affect on the legislative agenda?

Answer 25

NAHHH

Question 26

Is the impeachment process based on partisanship?

Answer 26

YAASS

Question 27

What does Eisenhower sending troops to Little Rock Arkansas in 1957 to integrate black students in school show?

Answer 27

President using emergency powers to protect states

Question 28

What was granted to draft evaders?

Answer 28

Amnesty because of Jimmy Carter

Question 29

What does OMB stand for and what are they in control of?

Answer 29

Office in the Management of Budget 3 trillion dollar budget

Question 30

What does the President's popularity do as time goes on?

Answer 30

the general tendency of the President's popularity starts high then goes lo

Question 31

What would you call when bureaucrats take laws and turn it into action?

Answer 31

Implementation

Question 32

What is a government corporation?

Answer 32

Amtrak and the U.S. Postal Service

Question 33

Does federal bureaucracy make the laws?

Answer 33

NAHHH they carry out laws

Question 34

What is the difference between business practices and public civil service administration? (Civil Service Acts of 1883)

Answer 34

not the Catholic Church

Question 35

What do public agencies do and are they good for the public?

Answer 35

provide public welfare and most of them are good

Question 36

What is the Department of Agriculture?

Answer 36

cabinet-level agency that overlooks the American farming agency and administers programs to help American farmers and ensure food safety for consumers

Question 37

What do formal organizations have to deal with?

Answer 37

formal organizations you have to deal with different personalities and cultures, bureaucratic cultures, different ways of doing things

Question 38

Who wanted a transparent government and did it work?

Answer 38

Obama and no Edward Snowden got his way

Question 39

When does devolution occur?

Answer 39

occurs when the federal government passes authority to the local and state governments

Question 40

Who's the first president who tried to reinvent government?

Answer 40

Jimmy Carter

Question 41

What are the drawbacks of devolution?

Answer 41

things are different in different states, some are much more conservative

Question 42

What is Congressional oversight?

Answer 42

means that you should investigate every party and not just the democrats

Question 43

what is the name of the party who brings the case? what is the name of the party that defends the case?

Answer 43

plaintiff and defendant

Question 44

which type of law is when the government is always the plaintiff,

Answer 44

criminal law

Question 45

what occurs when you have a criminal case and the district attorney is the plaintiff and the attorneys settle it before the court?

Answer 45

a plea

Question 46

Ultimate federal court is the Supreme Court, who has more cases? state or federal courts?

Answer 46

state courts

Question 47

What is due process of law (Miranda Rights)?

Answer 47

fair treatment through the normal judicial system, especially as a citizen's entitlement.

Question 48

Who sets the size of the U.S. Supreme Court?

Answer 48

Congress

Question 49

How many of the nine justices that sit on the Supreme Court were reported by Republican presidents?

Answer 49

five

Question 50

Third Ranking Official?

Answer 50

Attorney General

Question 51

what is a goal backed be a sanction sponsored by the government?

Answer 51

public policy

Question 52

what do public opinion polls say what Americans think abut welfare?

Answer 52

think we spend too much money on it and that it's unnecessary

Question 53

Is welfare given for free?

Answer 53

no; social security is contributed by the baby boomers and it's not welfare you need to pay into it

Question 54

What do welfare programs show about America?

Answer 54

that Americans are lazy and don't want to work

Question 55

What was TANF called before?

Answer 55

ADFC; Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC)

Question 56

What did Americans fear about Russia?

Answer 56

fear the Soviets we're going to win the Cold War

Question 57

What does mortgage crisis deal with?

Answer 57

predatory loans

Question 58

Is work place medical insurance an example of the shadow welfare state?

Answer 58

YAASS

Question 59

What is the shadow welfare state?

Answer 59

examines the lack of universal, single-payer health care coverage in the United States and the role organized labor has played in the formation of the current state of health insurance policy

Question 60

What does Federal Cash Assistance care for?

Answer 60

children

Question 61

Who does better in society powerful groups with political power or poor people?

Answer 61

people with political power

Question 62

Who do NADTA Republicans agree with?

Answer 62

Clinton

Question 63

Why did the U.S. not have to worry what was going on the rest of the world in the 19th century?

Answer 63

geographical isolation

Question 64

Which President established prevention?

Answer 64

George W Bush

Question 65

Are all nation states members of the United Nations?

Answer 65

NAHHH

Question 66

What does the Director of National Intelligence do?

Answer 66

serve as principal advisor to the President, the National Security Council, and the Homeland Security Council about intelligence matters related to national security

Question 67

What does disputed arbitration contain?

Answer 67

Third Neutral Party

Question 68

Who spends the most on military in the world?

Answer 68

America; every dollar spent on military in the world and the U.S. spends one third of that amount

Question 69

How much money did the allies spend in Gulf War I?

Answer 69

$11.1 billion (way more than America spent)

Question 70

What does Article 2 allow the Presidency to do?

Answer 70

the power to declare war