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Political Science- zVocabulary Test 1
The Logic of American Politics, The Constitution, Federalism, Georgia Institutions
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Political Studies
Undergraduate 1
04/19/2013

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Term
What is this an example of "I want to order pizza but my roommate wants japanese"?
Definition
Competing interests
Term
What is keeping what you earn and people are all equal?
Definition
Competing Values
Term
What is the process through which individuals and groups reach agreement on a course of common, or collective action even as they disagree on the intended goals of that action?
Definition
Politics
Term
What are the rules and procedures prescribing a process for reaching and enforcing collective agreements?
Definition
Institutions
Term
What establishes its governing intitutions and the set of rules and procedures these institutions must follow?
Definition
A constitution of a nation
Term
What is consisted of institutions and the legally prescribed process for making and enforcing collective agreement?
Definition
government
Term
What is the right of the office to make a particular decision?
Definition
Authority
Term
What refers to an individual officeholder's influence with other officeholders?
Definition
Power
Term
What gets a lot worse when the size of a group increases?
Definition
Coordination problems
Term
What occurs when members of a group decide that they are personally better off pursuing their own agenda while undermining the collective effort?
Definition
Prisoner's Dilemma
Term
What occurs when individuals within a group attempt to enjoy the collective benefits of membership without contributing?
Definition
Free Rider Problem
Term
What is it when collective good will disappear unless members cooperate to preserve it?
Definition
Tragedy of the Commons
Term
What is another word for preventing people from doing something?
Definition
Regulate
Term
What is the time, effort, and resources required to make a collective decision?
Definition
Transaction Costs
Term
What is the difference between what any one party prefers and what the collective body requires?
Definition
Conformity Costs
Term
What is a consensus agreement?
Definition
A unanimous agreement
Term
What is the authority to exert comprehensive control over those under one's dominion?
Definition
Command
Term
What is the ability to reject a proposal from another office or institution?
Definition
Veto
Term
What is the authority to determine the set of alternatives on which the group decides?
Definition
Agenda Control
Term
What is the process of allowing leadersĀ  to make decisions?
Definition
Delegation
Term
What is it called when you have 50% + 1% in a vote?
Definition
Simple Majority
Term
What is it called when you have anything above a 50% + 1% vote?
Definition
Supermajority
Term
What kind of democracy is it when the public delegates legislative power, executive power, and judicial power to a government?
Definition
Representative democracy
Term
What is the original larger group refered to as?
Definition
Principal
Term
Who does the principal delegate their authority to?
Definition
Agent
Term
What is the difference between what the principals want and what their agents actually do?
Definition
Agency Loss
Term
Delegation and majority rule can often be mixed to create what?
Definition
A representative democracy
Term
What is it called when a representative democracy places constraints on representatives?
Definition
A republic
Term
What is it called when you have debt, they either throw you in prison, or you go to the new world?
Definition
Debtors prison
Term
What is it called when you rule yourself?
Definition
Home Rule
Term
What is taxing yourself?
Definition
Levy taxes
Term
What was the war the France and England fought in?
Definition
French and Indian War 1754-1763
Term
What made people put a stamp on all printed material?
Definition
Stamp Act 1765
Term
What put a tax on imported tea?
Definition
Tea Act of 1773
Term
What was a outburst of the colonies to fight back against the tea act by throwing the tea overboard in the Harbor?
Definition
Boston Tea Party 1773
Term
What forced British troops live with the Colonists?
Definition
Restraining and Coercive Acts of 1774
Term
What pushed Independence on the National stage?
Definition
Common Sense
Term
What was signed because they wanted self governance because we needed to be independent and we need home rule?
Definition
Declaration of Independence
Term
What started the Revelutionary War?
Definition
The Declaration of Independence
Term
What created a loose confederation of autonomous states?
Definition
The Articles of Confederation
Term
What is it called when we have the same number of members in Congress no matter how large the state is?
Definition
Equal Representation of states
Term
What was it called when farmers protested and they get arrested, but more and more farmers protest and it leads to a revised Articles of Confederation?
Definition
Shay's Rebellion
Term
What is it called when people govern themselves?
Definition
Popular Sovereignty
Term
What was proposed by the larger states in the Constitutional Convention?
Definition
Virginia Plan
Term
What was proposed by the smaller states in the Constitutional Convention?
Definition
The New Jersey Plan
Term
What was proposed in the Constitutional Convention that wanted a bicameral legislature and could make any laws and veto any state laws?
Definition
Virginia Plan
Term
What was proposed in the Constitutional Convention that wanted a Unicameral Legislature with equal representation?
Definition
The New Jersey Plan
Term
What cut the Virginia Plan and The New Jersey Plan in half?
Definition
The Great Compromise
Term
What are powers that are listed in the Constitution?
Definition
Enumerated Powers
Term
What gives Congress ability to regulate interstate and international commerce?
Definition
Commerce Clause
Term
What are two or more states?
Definition
Interstate
Term
What gives Congress the ability to make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for exercising the enumerated powers?
Definition
Necessary and proper clause
Term
What is another name for the Necessary and Proper Clause?
Definition
Elastic Clause
Term
What are elections held at state levels?
Definition
Electoral College
Term
What says that the Constitution and the Laws of the United states should be the supreme law of the land?
Definition
Supremacy clause
Term
What is it called when state offer better deals and compete with one another to get a certain thing that they want?
Definition
Cutthroat Competition
Term
What Article and Section forbids states from entering into treaties with foreign countries?
Definition
Article 1 Section 10
Term
What Article and Section is where the Constitution authorized Congress to regulate interstate commerce?
Definition
Article 1 Section 8
Term
What article was a protection of states?
Definition
Article 4
Term
What Article and Section says that Northern states must return fugitive slaves?
Definition
Article 4 Section 2
Term
What is another word for confirmation?
Definition
Ratification
Term
Which group was for Ratification?
Definition
Federalist
Term
Which group was not for Ratification?
Definition
Antifederalist
Term
What is a group of likeminded individuals with similar goals?
Definition
Factions (Democratic and Republic)
Term
What prevents people from gathering together to discust their ideas?
Definition
Authoritarianism
Term
What outlined the theory behind constitutional design?
Definition
Publius
Term
What forced people to think alike?
Definition
Conformism
Term
What is it called when there are two groups within a society and it prevents tyranny?
Definition
Pluralism
Term
What discusses the motivation behind the separation of powers?
Definition
Federalist 51
Term
What is it called when lower-level governments derive authority from cental government?
Definition
Unitary (Central over states) (most popular)
Term
What is it called when the central government derives authority from the lower-level governments?
Definition
Confederation (state over central)
Term
What is the Hybrid of Unitary and Confederation?
Definition
Federalism
Term
What Amendment reserved powers for states?
Definition
Amendment 10
Term
What was it called when the state and national government was completely separate?
Definition
Dual Federalism
Term
What is it called when the National and State jointly supply service?
Definition
Shared Federalism
Term
What forced truckers to get their licenses from their own state?
Definition
The commercial motor vehicle Safety Act
Term
What is it called when states try to outbid each other for a business?
Definition
Race to the Bottom
Term
What was FDR's thing that was after the Great Depression?
Definition
New Deal
Term
What did Lyndon B Johnson create when Democrats felt that property trascended state borders?
Definition
Great Society 1960s
Term
What is a grant that is the exaxt amount given to states for specific purpose?
Definition
Block Grant
Term
What kind of grant is where the Federal government matches state spending in a policy area?
Definition
Matching grant
Term
What is it called when the National Government uses rules to require states to administer policies with limited or no financial assistance?
Definition
Unfunded Mandates
Term
What is it called when you apply certain rules and guidelines to a broad array of federally-subsidized state programs?
Definition
cross-cutting requirements
Term
What says that states must adhere to the guidelines of one program to recieve funding for another unrelated program?
Definition
Crossover santions
Term
What is it called when one state wants something and another state wants a different thing, so you they have to pick which one they want more?
Definition
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