AP Gov Final 2
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| What is the most costly program to the government? | Social Security
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| The welfare reforms of 1996 did all of the following except | take the federal government out of welfare policy, granting all authority to the states
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| What is the most important actor in the foreign policy establishment? | The president
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| What role is pursued by nations attempting to preserve the social order against all revolutions and other major regime changes? | Holy Alliance
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| When Woodrow Wilson announced that "the world must be safe for democracy" he was expressing the need for the US to take on | The Napoleonic Role
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| What is not an example of the US playing a Holy Alliance role? | The Bosnia peace keeping mission beginning in 1995
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| What do you need to tile a lawsuit? | Standing
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| How has the economic gap changed over the years? | Gap has gotten bigger
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| Laissez-faire | No government interference
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| Keynesian economics | Increasing public spending and cutting taxes
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| What are the goals of economic policy? | Promote a strong and stable economy, promote business development, promote international trade, regulate industrial relations, protect the environment, protect consumers
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| Medicare is what? Medicaid is what? | Contributory, Noncontributory
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| What is not a program of forced saving? (Contributory) | TANF
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| How did the Great Depression change American attitudes about welfare? | It revealed that poverty could be caused by a flawed economic system, not just by personal irresponsibility
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| What is not a goal of American Social Policy? | Closing the gap between the rich and poor
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| What is the best example of an iron triangle? | The stable relationship between a bureaucratic agency, a clientele group and a legislative agency
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| How do the lobbyists benefit politicians? | Gives the politician info
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| Why do interests groups favor affluent? | Those are the ones who are going to pay and become involved
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| Senate | Represents the entire state and has less responsibility. 6 year terms
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| HOR | Represents each constituent. 2 year terms
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| Population boom was where? | Warm places, CA, south. Important because it changed the number of reps per state
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| Why is redistricting controversial? | Done unfairly
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| What is a conference committee? | Temporary committee where they debate issues on hand then dissolve
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| How many bills pass? | 5%
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| The concept of oversight refers to the effort made by | Congress to make executive agencies accountable for their actions
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| What are the three powers of the president? | Expressed, delegated, implied
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| How have presidents got around treaties? | executive agreements
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| Before civil service act, how were people elected? | Spoils system. Now based on merit
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| What is the origin of most federal bureaus? | Congress passes laws creating and funding most federal bureaus
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| Regulations | A technique of control in which the government adopts rules imposing restrictions on the conduct of private citizens
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| What has been the greatest difficulty in establishing the new Department of Homeland Security | Adjusting to the many different bureaucratic cultures now part of a single operation
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| Devolution describes the process by which | the federal government is downsized by delegating the implementation of programs to the federal governments
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| What is the best form of budgeting for the gov? | cutting programs
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| The use of taxing and spending powers to shape the economy is part of | fiscal policy
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| What type of lawsuit is the government always the plaintiff? | Criminal
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| How many cases make it to the federal court? | 1%
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| What is jurisdiction | Where cases will be held
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| Controversy of federal court appointments | ideology interferes, not based on credentials
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| Marbury vs Madison | Congress cannot pass laws that are contrary to the Constitution, and it is the role of the Federal courts to interpret what the Constitution permits.
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| What is the primary mission of the state department? | Diplomacy
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