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77 Cards in this Set
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Buckley vs Valee
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1976
source, amount reform of campaign money |
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Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act
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2002
soft money, from anyone to party building activities |
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Pocketbook voting
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voting opposite party in power for the self
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Sociotropic voting
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voting for benefit of all, to help society
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Min amount of States a Pres. can win to take election
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15
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Speaker of the House does
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Speaks for House to President about strategy and policy
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Majority House leader does
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tactical planning
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Whips of the House do
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info gathering and channeling
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President of Senate is
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VP
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President Pro Tempore
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stands in for VP, most senior member of Senate
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Selective Committees
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temporary, deal with specific issues
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Three types of rules in House
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open, closed, restrictive
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Conference Committees
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revisiting a bill to make it presentable to a President that vetoed it
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The Powers of the President, in total
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Executive Order, Executive Privilege, Persuade, Inform, Recommend, Appoint
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Brownslow Commission
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1932, increase personal White House staff of President
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What office organizes workers an aids?
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Chief of Staff office
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People can be ambassadors to what
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organizations, countries, companies
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Desegregation of Military occured by exec. order of
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Harry Truman
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Bureaucracy does what
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implements laws, provides services (public works)
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Five Problems with Bureaucracy acronym
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ROMES
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Five Problems with Bureaucracy non acronym
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Red tape, overreaching goals, measuring success is hard, expansionist tendency, slow to change
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Hatch Act
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1939
Prevents gov. workers from campaign/participating in partisan political activity |
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Presidents Inner Cabinet acronym`
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STD J
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Presidents INner Cabinet
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State Treas Def Justice
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Independent Regulatory Agencies are
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quasi-jducial regulatory agencies
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First candidate to see political primary process had changed presidential politics was
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Jimmy Carter
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Media over exaggerating important of campaign events is called
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manufacturing news
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Performance voting
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choosing president on performance
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Influence of mass media tends to be
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exaggerated on Pres elections
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The Senate was intended to be
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electorally insulated by the Founders
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1960s, advantages of running for reelection in House grew to include
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money differences between candidates, party decline, changing role of reps
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In terms of proportion of women in the national legislature, among worlds democracies, US ranks
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quite low
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Shaw v. Reno
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1993
districts based solely on minority population figures are unconstitutional |
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Steering Committee
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Republican way of assigning people to committees
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The Committee of the Whole
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Floor of the House, where issues are debated amongst all members
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Distributive Theory
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members of Congress get committee assignments based on constituencies interests
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President does what acronym
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CRAMP
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President does what
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Conduct foreign policy, respond to disasters and problems, administer complex bureaucracy, manage economy, promote desired legislation
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Important Constitutional powers of President are
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shared with Congress
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Ronald Reagan tried to restore
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grandeur and pageantry of presidency
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Independent Counsel
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can look into presidential criminal conduct
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Administrative Discretion
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power of bureaucracy to implement laws their way
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Pendleton Act
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created civil service commission
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Senatorial Courtesy
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allows senators to veto appointments within their states
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17 Amendment
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direct election of senators
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Important Committees in House acronym
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CRAW
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Important Committees in House
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Commerce, Rules, Appropriations, Ways and Means
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Important Committees in Senate acronym
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FFAB
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Important Committees in Senate
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Foreign Affairs, Finance, Appropriations, Budget
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Citizens want their reps as _______, others as ______
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delegates, trustees
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Barbar says
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POS, NEG
ACTIVE Adaptive Compulsive PASSIVE Compliant Withdrawn |
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Skowronek says
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Pres only great if situation allows them to be
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Log Rolling Theory
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people work together in Congress to help everyone get things passed
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Schlesinger Pneumonic
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Helpwinner
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Ornstein Pneumonic
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improvein tech
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Glassman Pneumonic
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fairland
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Paige Pneumonic
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Guage
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Cohn Pneumonic
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sown
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Flake Pneumonic
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shouldn't be fake
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Craig/Simpson Pneumonic
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Go simpletons
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Schlesigner Pneumonic2
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warbringer
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Isaacs Pneumonic
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basics
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Turner Pneumonic
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anti-foreigners
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Wilson Pneumonic
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No,son
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Hacker Pneumonic
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Gov's No Slacker
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Schlesigner
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give pop vote winner 102 electoral votes, says small states have current adv
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Ornstein
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more tech/money to smooth election process, says small small states have current adv
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Glassman
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divide vote proportionally in each state by Congressional district
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Paige
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national spending should take priority over pork barrel spending, which takes too much of budget
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Cohn
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pork barrel spending is glue of legislation, makes people happy, only 1% of national budget anyway
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Flake
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currency corruption is pork barrel spending, creates biases on a bill, need transparency, should be explicit in text of legislation
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Craig/Simpson
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pork barrel puts money in hands of citizens, and must fit into budget resolution so is ok
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Schelsinger2
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Bush is unconstitutional in preventative war, Congress should choose when to go to war
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Isaacs
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Congress failed to stop war, preoccupied with other things, gave Bush the power
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Turner
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Says Pres can spy on any foreigners he wants, can't limit according to Constitution
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Wilson
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Gov not a business ever, demand only from elected officials, vague/immeasurable goals/structures, no profit/loss
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Hacker
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Gov more efficient in Health Care, disabilities, other insurance, risk spread widely and no adverse selection problem
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