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POL 102
Final exam
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Political Studies
Undergraduate 3
12/17/2015

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PAC Contributions
Definition
Legal way interest groups donate money directly to candidates. This does not allow them to buy influence over policy.
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Institutional Memory
Definition
Having senior members who remember what the legislature has does in the past wand why they did it. Term limits destroy this.
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Party Bloc Ballot
Definition
Candidates are grouped together by party. This increases straight ticket voting.
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Patronage
Definition
Handing out jobs for political reasons. This is important to up keeping the political machine.
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Tenth Amendment
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Is when whatever law or policies are not specifically written in the United States constitution the states have jurisdiction on how to handle these laws and policies. It give states more power and can be at times stronger than the federal government.
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Professional Legislature
Definition
A legislature that is well compensated, have lots of staff, have a high time commitment. The significance of this is that the legislature ahs more power and is able to get more done. Legislatures that fit this description are career legislature.
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Impeachment
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Legislature process of removing an elected official for committing some "crime". Legislature checks the judiciary and the executives.
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Sin Tax
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Tax on negative behavior (tobacco/alcohol). Highly regressive (hits poor people worse) leads to discouragement of this behavior.
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Line-item Veto
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Strike out a part of a bill. Increases governors power.
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Legislative over criminalization
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Legislator criminalize a lot of behaviors/make a lot of things illegal. Increases judiciary case load.
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Rocket Docket
Definition
System where lawyers have very strict deadlines to meet. Serves as a solution to high case load.
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Public Employee Unions
Definition
Trade unions that represent employees in a public sector. Often very involved in local (and state) elections, they also utilize collective bargaining.
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Contracting Out
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Government services are contracted out to and given to a private firm. The significance of this is that it is supposed to save the government money, but it actually doesn't and more often than not the services provided by the private companies are worse.
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Property Tax
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The tax placed on land or automobiles you own. This is a big source of revenue for local governments.
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Low Density Developments
Definition
People whose living situations are more spread out, this is also about policies that are meant to build outward instead of upward. The significance of this is that it causes the need for more resources such as roads and water and electric lines.
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