POLS 1101 FINAL REVIEW

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POLS 1101FINAL REVIEW
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Final Exam Details

• Friday, December 7rd. 1200 p.m. HERE!
• Final exam is 25 of your total grade.
• Approximately 8-10 questions from each chapter.

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Chapter 1

• 5 principles
• Politics
• Instrumental
• Government
• Autocracy
• Oligarchy
• Democracy
• Authoritarian
• Totalitarian
• Institutions
• Jurisdiction

• Agenda Power
• Veto power
• Principal-agent
• Transaction costs
• Collective action
• Free riding
• Public good
• Delegation
• Selective benefits
• Path dependency

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Chapter 2

• Articles of Confederation
• Great compromise
• Three-fifths compromise
• Bicameralism
• Expressed power
• Necessary and proper
• Judicial review
• Supremacy clause

• Separation of powers
• Federalism
• Bill of Rights
• Checks and Balances
• Tyranny

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Chapter 3

• Sovereignty
• Reserved powers
• Implied powers
• Police power
• Concurrent powers
• Full faith and credit
• Privileges and immunities
• Dual federalism
• Commerce clause
• Cooperative federalism

• Grants-in-aid
• Categorical grants
• Unfunded mandates
• Formula grants
• Block grants
• States rights
• Legislative supremacy
• Divided government
• Executive privilege
• Habeas corpus

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Chapter 4

• Civil liberties
• Miranda rule
• Establishment clause
• Lemon test
• Free exercise clause
• Clear and present danger
• Speech plus
• Prior restraint
• Right to privacy

• Libel
• Slander
• Fighting words
• Due process
• Exclusionary rule
• Grand jury
• Double jeopardy
• Eminent domain

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Chapter 5

• Civil rights
• Equal protection clause
• Separate but equal
• De jure segregation
• De facto segregation
• Intermediate scrutiny
• Affirmative action
• Ledbetter v Goodyear Tire
• Franklin V Gwinnet County Public Schools

• Brown v Board of Education
• Law v Nichols
• Mendez v Westminster
• Grutter v Bollinger
• Lawrence v Texas
• Roe v Wade
• Plessy v Ferguson

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Chapter 6

• Constituency
• Delegate
• Trustee
• Incumbency
• Patronage
• Case work
• Pork-barrel
• Gerrymandering
• Party conference
• Speaker of the house
• Majority/minority leader
• Standing Committee
• Executive agreement

• Gatekeeping
• Conference Committee
• Oversight
• Agency loss
• Closed Rule
• Open Rule
• Filibuster
• Cloture
• Pocket veto
• Party vote
• Roll call votes
• Whips
• Logrolling
• Impeachment

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Chapter 7

• Caucus system
• Delegated powers
• Inherent powers
• Commander in chief
• War Powers Resolution
• Executive privilege
• Veto
• Line-item veto

• Legislative initiative
• Executive order
• Cabinet
• White House staff
• Kitchen cabinet
• Executive Office of the President
• Signing statement

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Chapter 8

• Bureaucracy
• Implementation
• Rule making
• Administrative adjudication
• Clientele agency
• Regulatory agency
• Administrative legislation

• Fiscal Policy
• Monetary policy
• Federal Reserve
• Bureaucratic drift
• Oversight
• Deregulation
• Devolution
• Privatization

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Chapter 9

• Criminal law
• Civil law
• Precedent
• Stare decisis
• Public law
• Trial court
• Appellate court
• Supreme court
• Jurisdiction
• Due process
• Chief justice
• Senatorial courtesy

• Standing
• Mootness
• Writ of certiorari
• Amicus curiae
• Oral argument
• Opinion
• Judicial restraint
• Judicial activism
• Rule of four
• Class-action suit

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Chapter 10

• Public opinion
• Political socialization
• Agents of socilization
• Gender gap
• Liberal
• Conservative
• Agenda-setting effect
• Priming
• Framing
• Public opinion poll

• Sample
• Probability sampling
• Random digit dialing
• Selection bias
• Sampling error
• Measurement error
• Push polling
• Salient interest
• Illusion of salience
• Bandwagon effect

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Chapter 11

• Adverse selection
• Moral hazard
• Australian ballot
• Single-member district
• Electoral college
• Plurality rule
• Majority rule
• Proportional representation
• Duvergers Law
• Political action committee

• Referendum
• Initiative
• Recall
• Party identification
• Issue voting
• Prospective voting
• Retrospective voting
• Spatial issue
• Median-voter theorem
• Valence issue

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Chapter 12

• Political Party
• Nomination
• Closed primary
• Open primary
• Majority party
• Party identification
• Party activist

• Gender gap
• Political caucus
• Party machine
• Third party
• Single-member district
• Multiple-member district

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Chapter 13

• Interest group
• Pluralism
• PAC
• Informational benefits
• Material benefits
• Political entrepeneur
• Prisoners dilemma

• Solidary benefits
• Purposive benefits
• Lobbying
• Going public
• Initiative
• Selective benefits

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Chapter 14

• Equal time rule
• Right of rebuttal
• Fairness doctrine
• Prior restraint
• Citizen journalism
• New York Times v Sullivan
• Hard/Soft news

• FCC
• Press release
• Leaks