Question | Answer |
What is the most costly program to the government? | Social Security |
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 |
What is the most important actor in the foreign policy establishment? | The president |
What role is pursued by nations attempting to preserve the social order against all revolutions and other major regime changes? | Holy Alliance |
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 |
What is not an example of the US playing a Holy Alliance role? | The Bosnia peace keeping mission beginning in 1995 |
What do you need to tile a lawsuit? | Standing |
How has the economic gap changed over the years? | Gap has gotten bigger |
Laissez-faire | No government interference |
Keynesian economics | Increasing public spending and cutting taxes |
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 |
What is not a program of forced saving? (Contributory) | TANF |
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 |
What is not a goal of American Social Policy? | Closing the gap between the rich and poor |
What is the best example of an iron triangle? | The stable relationship between a bureaucratic agency, a clientele group and a legislative agency |
How do the lobbyists benefit politicians? | Gives the politician info |
Why do interests groups favor affluent? | Those are the ones who are going to pay and become involved |
Senate | Represents the entire state and has less responsibility. 6 year terms |
HOR | Represents each constituent. 2 year terms |
Population boom was where? | Warm places, CA, south. Important because it changed the number of reps per state |
Why is redistricting controversial? | Done unfairly |
What is a conference committee? | Temporary committee where they debate issues on hand then dissolve |
How many bills pass? | 5% |
The concept of oversight refers to the effort made by | Congress to make executive agencies accountable for their actions |
What are the three powers of the president? | Expressed, delegated, implied |
How have presidents got around treaties? | executive agreements |
Before civil service act, how were people elected? | Spoils system. Now based on merit |
What is the origin of most federal bureaus? | Congress passes laws creating and funding most federal bureaus |
Regulations | A technique of control in which the government adopts rules imposing restrictions on the conduct of private citizens |
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 |
Devolution describes the process by which | the federal government is downsized by delegating the implementation of programs to the federal governments |
What is the best form of budgeting for the gov? | cutting programs |
The use of taxing and spending powers to shape the economy is part of | fiscal policy |
What type of lawsuit is the government always the plaintiff? | Criminal |
How many cases make it to the federal court? | 1% |
What is jurisdiction | Where cases will be held |
Controversy of federal court appointments | ideology interferes, not based on credentials |
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. |
What is the primary mission of the state department? | Diplomacy |