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| exposed President Nixon as a criminal; he ordered the break-in to the Watergate hotel to steal information from the Democratic National committee headquarters |
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| Water gate: resigned before impeachment: “conspiring to commit a crime”: quid pro quo: Gerald Ford becomes president by 25th Amendment and pardons nixon |
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| sets term limit for president: Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933-1945) only president to be elected for >2 consecutive terms: you can run for office twice and serve for 2 four year terms: presidential successors can run one more time |
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| if VP is incapacitated or dies in office the president has the right to appoint a replacement ( must be confirmed by majority vote in senate and HOR |
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| Andrew Johnson/Bill Clinton |
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Two presidents impeached (charged):
1)impeached for civil rights, not removed by 1 vote
2)white water affair; removed for perjury lied under oath; failed to remove him by four votes |
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| Impeachment and conviction process |
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-political equivalent of indictment
-HOR votes with majority for treason, bribery, and other high crimes and midemeanors
-Senate tries accused presidentwith Cheif justice of Supreme court presiding
-2/3 vote of senate needed to remove president |
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| Presidential succession act of 1947 |
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| lists order of succession to become president after VP: speaker of house, president pro tempore,the speaker of STD( state, treasury, defense), then dept. heads in chronological order of their creation (Homeland security last) |
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-completes the president and what he lacks
-goal is to choose a running mate who would bring more wide spread appeal to the campaign
Ex:
-geographic appeal (someone from a different region)
-to unify party (someone who is associated with a different faction of the party)
-social and cultural balance (white male picks white woman) |
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1. becomes president if president dies
2. cast deciding vote for tie in the senate (VP is President of Senate)
3. Balances the ticket |
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| Article II “elastic Clause” |
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| executive power of united states is vested in the president |
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1.C- took charge of America during the Great Depression
2.T- talked to the American people through the radio (public); appealed to them directly
3.L- introduced a legislative package to congress with laws he wanted;Came up with the Bank Holiday and New Deal
4.G- size of the bureaucracy grows 40%; created office of management and budget (1st pres to make a budget) |
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1. presidential advisers
2. 15 secretaries and attorney general
3. 1st official duty as president is to name the cabinet (approved by senate) |
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| 1. Executive Office of President |
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1.composed of people who president owes favors to
2. strong political advocates
3. close people to president |
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| Office of Management and Budget (OMB) |
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1.prepares annual federal budget costs 2.president provides federal guidelines and congress passes
3. presidents priorities = budget
4. most money spent on social programs (defense #2) |
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| giving jobs or promotions for political reasons rather than for merit or competence alone |
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1.president sells his programs directly to the American public
2. Done by FDR
3. new style of presidential leadership |
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1. first 90 days of presidency
2. congress does everything for the president (passes his legislation, agrees with proposals)
3. Gets harder to pass after and approval rating goes down |
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| What are the president’s powers? When do these powers grow? Historical examples? |
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1. commander in cheif of the armed forces and state militia
2. appointments of executive depts
3.parson people convicted of federal crimes
4. make treaties with advice and consent of the president
5. appoint ambassadors, federal court judges, and other top officials with senate approval
6. Delivers State of union address to congress
7. Calls special sessions of congress
8. meets heads of state
9. ensures that laws of congress are carefully executed
10.Can issue special "executive orders" (special laws Without congress approval)
powers grow during: war and crisis of Constituencies and money
***Historical Examples***?????? |
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| When is a president effective? |
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| How do modern Presidents since FDR differ from presidents from the 19th Century? |
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| *****What is the proper relationship between the president and congress?***** |
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1. Framers did not set out to promote grid lock between president and congress
2. wanted conflicting opinions in society to be considered carefully before gov takes action
3. Dynamic relationship changes with every issue and event
4. cordial and cooperative vs. hostile and polarized
5. cooperate where possible
6. balance out powers to prevent corruption of power and abuse of authority
7. congress was meant to be "king" and early presidents were quiescent |
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| non-elective government officials |
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1. patronage system
2.informal parted where elected party gives government jobs to its votersas a reward for working toward victory and incentive to keep them working for the party
3. derived from "to the victor go the spoils"
4. not merit influenced |
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| Civil Service Reform Act (Pendleton Act) of 1883 |
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1. Established United States Civil Service Commission placing most federal gov employees on the merit system
2. marked end of spoils system
3. some gov jobs filled by competitive exams
4.sponsored by democrat senator Pendleton of Ohio
5.only applied to fed jobs not state and local |
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1. prohibited federal employees from donating and working for political campaigns and running for election
2. gets rid of spoils and patronage system |
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| Federal Employee Political Activities Act of 1993 |
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1. loosened hatch act
2. allowed government employees to donate (as long as not to coerce), work on political campaigns(after hours only), and run for local nonpartisan positions |
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| Cabinet-Level Departments |
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1. headed by secretary (except justice headed by attorney general)
2.each manages specific policy area; each has own budget, staff, and unique mission.
3. real work done in bureaus |
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| Independent regulatory commissions (IRC) |
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1. resposibility of some sector of the economy
2. making and enforcing rules designed to protect the public interest
3.judges disputes over these rules
EXs:FRB (federal reserve board), NLRB(National labor relations board), FCC (federal ommunications commission),FTC (federal trade commission),SEC (securities and exchange commission) |
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| Independent Executive Agencies(IEA) |
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1. rest of the gov non cabinet depts
2. no independent regulatory commission
3. not gov corporations
4. administrators appointed by the pres and serve at his will
EXs: GSA, NSF,NASA |
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1. organization that provides a service that could not be provided by the private sector and typically charges for its service
ex: USPS |
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| Allows Congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states or basing it on census results. |
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| Administrative discretion |
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exercise of proffessional expertise and judgement vs. strict adherence to regulations or statutes
in making a decision or performing official acts or duties |
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process used by executive and independent agencies to create regulations
1. legislators set broad policy mandates by passing laws
2. agencies create more detailed regulations through rule making |
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| Administrative adjudication |
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1.system of a semi-court within bureaucracy to decide if a member has broken a rule
2. member can appeal decision in real court |
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| use of gov authority to control or change some practice in the private sector |
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1. congress has 60 days to review and possibly reject agency rules
2. regulations can be nullified by a joint resolution of congress and presidential signature within 60 days on implementation |
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1. ability of congress to override a presidential veto
2. allows congress to stop an agency from doing something
ex: INS v Chadha 1983- congress stopped chad from being deported constitutional because congress power > INS |
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policy making relationship among congressional comittees, executive branch (bureaucracy), and interest groups. |
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1. a place on the internet where proposed regulations by the bureaucracy are set up so that congress can review the regulations (called congressional review) and see whether or not they are okay with the regulations.
2. important because:even though congress makes broad laws and the bureaucracy makes mini rules and regulations for the law congress still has the final say which is important. It is the official of the US Government that contains most routine publications and public notices of government agencies. |
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| Who controls the Bureaucracy (the president, congress, courts or all three) ? |
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1. Excutive control: president has the power to
>remove
>appoint heads
>remove dept. heads
>reorganize bureaucracy
>make changes in budget proposals (OMB)
issue executive orders
2.Congressional control
>pass legislation to alter agencies function
>abolish existing programs
>investigate activities
>influence presidential appointments
>write legislation to limit bureaucratic discretion
>limit funds
>Legislative Veto (INS v Chadha 1983)
>congressional review- regulations can be nullified by joint resolution of congress and presidential signature within 60 days of implementation
3. judicial control
>us court system can heard appeals and rule on constitutionality of bureaucratic action
>can enforce respects for individual rights |
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| How does the iron triangle of Policy-making work? |
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| What does the Bureaucracy do and how does it operate? |
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| When does the bureaucracy tend to grow? (Historical examples from different periods) |
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Crisis FDR and New Deal
Money or constituencies |
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| What were Max Weber’s criteria for a modern bureaucracy, and does the US bureaucracy approximate this model? |
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1. hierarchical chain of command
2. division of labor and specialization (80% covered by competative exams not just random jobs)
3. clear lines of authority ( you know who to report to and who's in charge)
4. Impersonal rules and merit-based decision making |
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| Why is the bureaucracy sometimes called “The Fourth Branch of Government” ? |
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1. chief justice from 1801-1835
2. established courts entitlement to judicial review (strike down laws that violate constitution)
3. shaped balance of power between fed gov and state by confirming fed law supremacy over state law
4. supported expansive reading of enumerated powers
5. Majority opinion so lower courts wont make own ruling |
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| it gave power of judicial review and set precedent stare decis (courts ability to set a precedent that all courts need to follow) |
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| Three-tiered court system |
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1.set by the judiciary act of 1789
2.district courts> circuit court of appeals> supreme court |
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->associate justice from chicago
->liberal |
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1. second woman and first jewish woman
2. most liberal
3. pancreatic cancer most likely to step down
4. Clinton
5. associate justice
6. judicial activism |
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1.liberal
2.Jewish
3.clinton
4. Associate justice
5. judicial activism |
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1. associate justice
2. judicial activism
3. Obama
4. first Hispanic justice
5. latin |
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1. associate justice from california
2. reagan
3. acts as the Courts swing vote: used to be with Sandra Day O'Conner
4. Judicial restraint |
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1. Bush (father)
2. associate justice
3. judicial restraint |
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1. chief justice of US
2. Bush
3. more conservatie wing of the court
4. judicial restraint |
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1. associate justice
2. reagan
3. core member of conservative wing
4. 2nd most senior associate justice
5. judicial restraint |
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1.associate member GA
2.Bush (father)
3.most conservative
4. only black member |
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1.legal breifs submitted by a "friend of the court" to raise additional points of view and present information not in the breifs of the formal parties
2. attempt to influence court's decisions |
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| Writ of Certiorari (vs petition for writ of certiorari) |
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1.document signed by court saying they are going to take case
2. petition- lower court asks supreme court to take a case
3. clerk review petitions- discuss and dead list |
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1. Latin for let the decision stand
2. courts ability to set a precedent
3. all other courts have to concur or rule the same way |
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1.power of courts to determine whether acts of congress and the executive branch are in accord with the US constitution
2.established by John Marshall in Marbury vs. Madison |
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1. rating candidates
2. ABA and senate judiciary committee vet candidates at Q, WQ, or NQ and senate confirms |
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| four judges have to agree to take a case before its heard |
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| Clerks of the Supreme Court |
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| open writs of certiorari and takes them to the chief justices office |
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| How powerful is the Judicial Branch relative to congress and the Executive Branch? |
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| What does the constitution say about the courts? |
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1.president appoints judges which senate approves
2.judges serve for life or good behavior
3. pay cannot be diminished
4. congress establishes inferior courts
5. original jurisdiction in cases involving two or more states,the US and a state, foreign diplomats, a state and the citizen of another state. |
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| How are judicial nominees selected? |
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| What are the procedures of the Supreme Court? |
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1. term= first monday in october till june/july
2. october-april monday-wednesday public can watch oral arguement
3.thursday or friday- private conference session each justice in order of seniority discusses how they will vote
4. if in majority chief justice decides who will write majority opinion if not next senior justice |
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| What types of Opinions are there, and why are the writing, circulation, and signing of opinions important? |
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1.majority, dissenting, and concurring (voting with majority for different reason)
2. plurality- decides case but doesn't establish precedent
3. per curium no opinion- unsigned; justices rule but don't sign because they don't want to establish a precedent |
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| When is a case likely to be heard by the Supreme Court? |
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1. solicitor general asks for a review
2. conflict among circuit court of appeals
3. important civil rights or liberties question
4. high number of amicus curiae briefs
5. ideological or policy preference of a justice
6. justice has a burning desire to hear the case
7. state v state, us gov v state, state v citizen |
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| What is the current composition of the court? Who are the justices, and what is each of their philosophies? |
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right 5 to 4 left
Left- judicial activism- amendment 14
Ruth bader-ginsburg
John paul stevens
Sonia sotomayor
stephen breyer
right- Judicial restraint- original intent- amendment 10
Anthony Kennedy
Chief john Roberts
Samuel Alito
Antonin Scalia
Clerence Shomas |
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| Does judicial activism or restraint prevail in the current Supreme Court? |
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| Judicial restraint prevails |
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1. first political party of the Us
2. wanted strong centeral government
3. part of large business elite states like VA and MA
4. elected alexander hamilton supporting his natl bank policies
5.short lived and poorly organized
6.get rid of articles of confederation and ratify constitution
7.faded away during the Era of good feelings (1817-1825) |
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1.small farmers and fronteirsmen from places like kentucky
2.wanted to keep but amend articles of confederation
3.suspicious of strong central governments
4. patrick Henry |
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1.led by Thomas Jefferson v. John Adams
2.similar to antifederalist (no strong central gov)
3. repped agrarian interests
4. party died because factions triend to make everyone happy
3. |
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1. democratic republicans afre A. Jackson won the presidency
2.used spoilds system
3. consisted of westerners, southerners, new immigrants, and settled americans |
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| How have the parties evolved over time? Since the founding? |
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What has been the effect of the following events on the two major parties (in class movies):
The New Deal
LBJ’s Great society
The Vietnam War and counterculture
Civil rights movement
Removal of Christian culture from schools/public forums |
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| What functions do parties perform? |
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| Why are third parties largely irrelevant? Do they perform any major functions? |
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| Why have parties been in decline since the 50s? Does the recent election belie this notion or demonstrate a new trend? |
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1.political change without unplesantness
2.legitimate gov
3. allow people with different views to come to power
4. fill public office
5. make government accountable |
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| you do not have to be a member of the party to vote |
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| you must be a member of the party to vote (most common) |
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a meeting of party members to decide who they will support
>people travel to the state capital and ask for support or vote |
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1. people who carry our vote to the natl convention
2.# depends on state size
3.super delegate votes how they wish |
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candidate with 51% takes all the delegates
> favored by republicans |
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| > voting system aimed at securing a close match between the percent of votes that groups of candidates obtain in elections and # of delegates they recieve |
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| meeting ofmajor figures in the political party to outline a prty platform, set party rules,select nominee for president, and rally supporters |
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| document stating aims and principlas of a political party |
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| 1. national or stete election with candidate v candidate |
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1. person eligible to vote in an election
2. # of electors = # of senators and house Representatives
3. 538 total in US |
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1. qulaify by raising $5,000 in 20 states in increments of $250 or less and government matches contribution
2.shows widespread support
3. more democratic because average person can make a difference |
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| 1. money given directly to candidates 2. highly regulated |
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1. Money spent independently of candidates
2. hard to regulate |
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1.Federal Election campaign act
2.set to regulate hard money donations
3.limit campaign spending, required disclosure, and limited contributions to 2300 per candidate per election |
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1. Political action committees
2.can donate $5000 per candidate
3.accept $5000 per donor
4.give $15,000 to parties
5.no annual limits on contributions
6. must file with FEC and disclose contributuions |
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1. independent groups seeking to influence the politics through unlimited soft money contributions
2.not regulated by FECAs
3.can accept and spend unlimited contributions
4.cannot endorse candidates |
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| McCain Feingold Bipartisan Campaign Finance Reform Act of 2002 |
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1. no more unlimited contributions top parties
2.no electioneering ads by corporations or unions within 60 days of general election or 30 days of primaries
3.money flowed to no limit 527's struck down as a violation of first amendment in 2010 in a 5/4 decision of Citizens united v FEC (hillary clinton documentary) |
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| Citizens United v. FEC, 2009 ( How will this case affect corporate and union soft money spending) |
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Citizens United sued the FEC to prevent the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (BCRA) to show its film Hillary: The Movie. The Movie expressed opinions about whether Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton would make a good president. The majority maintained that political speech is indispensable to a democracy, which is no less true because the speech comes from a corporation. The BCRA's actions were constitutional, reasoning that disclosure is justified by a "governmental interest" in providing the "electorate with information" about election-related spending resources
The Court held that the “government may not suppress political speech on the basis of the peaker's corporate identity. No sufficient governmental interest justifies limits on the political speech of nonprofit or for-profit corporations.” So more soft money will be spent. |
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| How does a candidate become the party’s chosen presidential candidate? |
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| How does the Electoral College work? Why can the popular vote differ from the Electoral College vote? |
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| How much influence does money have on election outcomes? |
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| It is how people think about an issue or set of issues at a particular point in time. It can change. |
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| An opinion poll is a survey of public opinion from a particular sample. Opinion polls are usually designed to represent the opinions of a population by conducting a series of questions and then extrapolating generalities in ratio or within confidence intervals. |
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| A method for collecting quantitative information about items in a population |
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| It is the process of acquiring political values. Political socialization is a concept concerning the “study of the developmental processes by which children and adolescents acquire political cognition, attitudes and behaviors” |
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| It correctly predicted election results because they had a good survey. |
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| Their surveys were usually always accurate until in 1936 when they used phone records and automobile registry to survey (rich people were over polled), straw-polled, and bad timing (asked in September) and wrongly determined that Landin would win over FDR. |
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People and groups that influence our self-concept, emotions, attitudes, and behavior.
Family, education, religion, peer groups, mass media |
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| A is a technique using the principle that everyone should have an equal probability of being selected for the sample. |
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| It cuts the nation up into five regions and surveys some from each; no population element can be excluded. |
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| It makes your sample look like the group it represents (ex. 60% of Miami is Hispanic so 60% of the participants for the Miami survey should be Hispanic). |
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| Self-Selection and Straw polling |
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| It means that anybody who wants to answer can answer (self-selection). |
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| It is how surveying agencies plan on reaching the participants (ex. phone or email); must use one appropriate for the population |
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| It is the 5 point scale: SA, A, N, D, SD. It is a more neutral way of compiling opinions. |
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| Polls are taken at the poll site (ex. standing at the exit and asking every 10th person how they voted). |
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| It is the percentage by which the sample could vary from the results using the entire population. The larger the margin of error, the less faith one should have that the poll's reported results. |
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| It is confusing correlation and causation; correlation does NOT mean causation |
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| It is an error in logic believing that because one thing that preceded caused an event when in actuality, a third party event was the causal factor. Ex: near-sighted baby study |
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| It is an error in logic believing that what’s true for one must be true for everybody. |
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| Why did the literary digest incorrectly predict the results of the 1936 election? |
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Old phone records and automobile registry to survey were used= rich people were over polled
Straw-Polling
Bad timing; they asked in September- way too early |
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| What are the elements of a good survey (aka, valid results)? |
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Timing and question wording
random, quota , or stratified sampling
good method of contact |
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| What is a sampling error, or the margin of error, and how did it work against the media in the 2000 election? |
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Margin of error = how much sample could vary from an actual count of all of the “n’s”
Usually 3 – 5 % = anything within is called a statistical dead heat- it’s too close to call
In 2000, polls showed Bush 48%, Gore 52% but with a normal margin of error that means nothing because: 48 + 3 = 51; 52 - 3 = 49 ! |
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| Can a politician use a poll to promote his own views? How could he construct a poll to prove people think like him? |
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| Yes. By using misleading or confusing wording. |
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| What are the agents of political socialization? What limitations do researchers face in discerning the effects of various agents? |
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| People and groups that influence our self-concept, emotions, attitudes, and behavior such as family, education, religion, peer groups and mass media. |
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| Began in the late 1800’s; it used sensationalism to excite readers and sell more newspapers. |
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| Muckrakers is a term used to describe a group of American investigative reporters from the late 1800s to the early 1900s who exposed societal issues such as conditions of slums, sweatshops and unsanitary food processing plants through books and magazines. They wanted reform and were accused of being socialists. |
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| The FCC; they regulate non-federal radio, cable, satellite, and decide what is decent. |
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| It mandated that radio waves have to be licensed. This is the first time the government tried to regulate radio broadcasts. |
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| 1934 Federal Communications Act |
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| It set up the FCC to decide what’s decent and begin regulation but stated that you can’t control what people pay for (ex. Playboy Channel- if you paid for it, you own it). |
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| 1996 Telecommunications Act (deregulation and conglomerate ownership) |
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| It deregulated the media and insisted on V-chips to see a show’s rating. It was the first major overhaul of US telecommunicationslaw in nearly 62 years, amending the Communications Act of 1934. |
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| Equal time rule+ What are the four exceptions to the Equal Time Rule? |
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It says that if a station sells time to one candidate, they must offer that same amount of time to the other candidate (you can’t say ‘no we don’t want McCain ads’ but sell Obama ad time)
1. if the air-time was in a documentary
2. bona fide news interview
3. scheduled newscast or
4. an on-the-spot news event. |
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| It means that if someone is criticized on the air, they have the right to rebut on the same station; this was struck down by the Federal appeals court. |
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That news providers had to stay center and contrast the two sides
present controversial issues of public importance in a manner that was (in the Commission's view) honest, equitable, and balanced.
The Fairness Doctrine deals with matters of public importance, and has no specific equal-time requirement; the Equal Time rule only deals with political candidates. |
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| It forbids anyone from publishing official secrets (in Great Britain; none in US). |
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It made it okay to publish secrets because of freedom of speech.
?It made it more difficult to prove libel/slander (malicious intent and reckless disregard to truth). This was important because it would open the way for media uncovering the truth about politicians.
It established the actual malice standard; which requires that the plaintiff in a defamation or libel case must prove that the publisher of the statement in question knew that the statement was false or acted in reckless disregard of its truth or falsity. |
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| Broadcast decency Act 2004 |
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| If a person on a show uses too much indecency, the station has to pay $500,000 per incident. |
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| How has the development of the electronic media changed politics? |
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| How do the media cover politics? (Scandal horse race) |
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| How did NYT v. Sullivan (1964) and Watergate affect political reporting? |
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| When can the media affect peoples’ political attitudes? |
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| What is the President’s biggest foreign policy challenge? |
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| President Obama is faced with many challenges in foreign policy including wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the global financial crisis and the country's frayed international image. Pick one. |
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| Which depiction of the terrorist threat is more accurate: Farrenheit 9/11 or Obsession? |
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Watching Michael Moore tackle the issue of the White House's response to terrorism, you can't help but feel an upwelling of déjà vu. Fahrenheit 9/11 explains that the Bush administration prior to 9/11 was unconcerned with the threat of terrorism, pointing to President Bush's lack of meetings with appropriate counter-terrorism officials, and memos about bin Laden being determined to strike in the U.S. Where have we heard this before? That's right, those were the controversies that arose – and were put to rest – by the 9/11 Commission.. This movie cinematizes it with an entire section devoted to exposing the ‘war on terror’ as a White House plot to manipulate the minds of millions of Americans.”
“Obsession opens with a series of interviews with 4 or 5 specific individuals who have something to say about “radical Islam” and the “jihaidsts,” comparing today’s radical Islam to Nazism of the 1930′s.The message is there are some crazy guys out there and they won’t be happy until every Jew, American and (frankly) immoral westerner has been either wiped out, or forced to submit to Islamic law. Actually when we say “some”, we mean lots (about 150 million according to this film’s statistics). I’m being facetious, but that’s largely because it’s hard to take the ranting and raving seriously. Not that of the crazies in the TV clips, nor, by inference, the producers of this film. The movie begins by saying that most Muslims are not extremists, and this film is about them. This acts as a useful caveat that allows the filmmakers to go on and present the Islamic world as packed to capacity with crazies but they can’t be accused of portraying Muslims as a whole in a bad light…Islam has been demonized by this movie…islam is not like nazism as the movie portrays…” |
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