Govt Final Part2

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Policymaking Process

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Problem indentification, formation, adoption, implementation, evaluation

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Social Policy

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refers to rules and regulations and policymaking pertaining to the quality of life welfare and relations of human beings in the U.S.

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crime control model

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criminal justice policy-making model that views the controlling of crimminal behavior as the systems most important function.

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due process model

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crimial justice policy-making model that views the attainment of justice-which includes protection of the innocent-as the principal goal of the system.

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welfare state

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refers to a social system in which the state assumes a considerable degree of responsibility for citizens in matters of healthcare, employment, education and retirement income.

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capitalism

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economic systme which all or most of the means of production are owned under competive conditions.

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socialism

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an ecomonic system which all or most of the means of production are owned by the community as a whole.

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Medicare

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federal program that provides health insurance for the elderly

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Medicaid

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federal program that provides limited healthcare services to the poor.

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IRA's individual retirement accounts

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put $ in with out being taxed and it grows tax free until its withdrawn after the age of 59

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Roth IRA's

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pay taxes on the $ now, and you dont have to pay taxes on it as it grows

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401(k)

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same advantages as IRA's, no tax now or on growth and employers offers different options, like they will math contributions to a degree.

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Keogh plans

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401(k)'s for self employed, under different names like SIMPLE(savings incentive match plan for employees of small employers) SEP's (simplified employee pension plans) are like IRA's.

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Universal Health Care

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Health care for everyone at govts expense

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HMO's (health maintenance organizations)

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prepaid medical practice arrangements that give flat monthly rates.

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EPA (environmental protection agency)

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Coordinates programs into a single regime of law enforcement; issues regulations to control the quality of the environment.

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No Child Left Behind Act

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fed legislation passed in 2002 that requires mandatory testing of students to meet basic competencies.

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two presidents theory

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Pres. to be more powerful in foreign affairs and more limited in the domestic sphere.

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isolationism

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opposition to both interventions in distant wars and involvement in permanent military alliances.

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Pacifism

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refused to sanction any military conflict and opposses all war making.

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Monroe Doctrine

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U.S. foreign policy that proclaimed North and South America unavailable for future colonization by any European power and any such act would be viewed as an act of war with the U.S.

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Manifest Destiny

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to acquire lands and occupy the entire continent from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean.

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United Nations

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and international organization formed to promote and maintain international security.

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internationalism

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doctrine that favors active participation of the nation in collective arrangement that secure the political independence and territorial boundaries of other countries.

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Marshall Plan

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(Secretary of State George Marshall) 1947 provided $13billion in loans to Western European countries whose economies had been ravaged my WWII.

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Cold War

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Half century struggle over ideological differences between the U.S. and the Soviet Union thru economic warfare. Never broke out into a military engagement and ended in dissolutoin of the S.U. in 1991.

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NATO(North Atlantic Treaty Organization)

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a military, political, and economic alliance of nations formally bound to protect self determination and open trade in Western Europe.

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Warsaw Pact

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formal alliance of nations within the Soviet sphere during the Cold War.

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Truman Doctrine

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late 1940's $ and resources were provided to sustain non-communist govts in areas strategically vital to the U.S.

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containment

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U.S. foreign policy that sought to restrict Soviet power to its existing geographical sphere.

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domino theory

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communist takeovers of countries in Southeast Asia and elsewhere would be followed by subsequent communist take overs of nearby countries.

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SDI (Strategic Defense Intiative)

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a theoretical antimissle system based on the use of lasers and particle beams to shoot down Soviet missles in outer space.

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Department of State

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responsible for many foreign aid, and contributions to international organizations.

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international organizations

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official entities of international scope or character, usually established by treaty, such as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.

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Department of Defense

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executive branch agency that is responsible for managing nations military and advising the President on all military matters.

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Joint Chiefs of Staff

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group of chief officers of the 4 branches of the armed forces as well as a JCS chair and vice chair, which advise the Pres. in military matters and delivers Pres.'s orders to the military.

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hawks

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who called for aggressive military action where ever hostile forces might be found- led by Rice, Rumsfeld, and V. Pres. Dick Cheney. Hawks won.

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realists
(opposite of hawks)

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led by Powell, counseled diplomacy as the primary means of protecting U.S. interests abroad. Hawks won and we waged war on Iraq in 2003 without support of the United Nations.

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Department of Homeland Security DHS

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control border and transportation security, infastructure protection, the U.S. Coast guard, U.S. Secret Service, FEMA, and Immigration.

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CIA (central intelligence agency)

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created by the National Security Act of 1947, to correlate, evaluate, and dissiminate intelligence into from thru out the world that effects national security.

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military industrial complex

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refers to the vast network defense industries in America, such as manufactors of weapons, missiles, aircraft, submarines and so forth and thier bureaucratic allies.