US government and politics final exam

** When term limits have been overturned, the most common method was _______.

A decision by the state Supreme Court

While each state has two senators, members of the House are apportioned ________.

According to the states population

°° Which stage of the public policy process includes identification of problems in need of fixing?

Agenda setting

*Which of the following is a church that the legislative branch has over the courts?

All of the above

^ The goals of the U.S.foreign policy include ______.

All of the above

Saying a bill is being marked up is just another weight to say it is being ____.

Amended

° An example of a government corporation is _____.

Amtrak

° Which describes the ideal bureaucracy according to Max Weber?

An apolitical, hierarchically organized agency

^ Which of the following is not a foreign policy type?

Bureaucratic oversight

**_______ Dictate the terms and conditions state government would have to meet in order to qualify for financial assistance in a specific policy area

Categorical grants

** In a _________ Legislator, members tend to have low salaries, Shorter sessions, and a few staff members to assist them with their legislative functions.

Citizen

^ The US policy of containment during the Cold War related to keeping ________.

Communism from spreading

*When a Supreme Court ruling is made, justices may write a ________ To show they agree with the majority but for different reasons.

Concurring opinion

^ Why do house members and senators tend to be less active on foreign-policy matters than domestic ones?

Constituents Are more directly affected by domestic policy topics that foreign ones.

°° Setting aside Social Security and Medicare, the entitlement programs in the U.S. government ______.

Constitute well under one-quarter of the budget

*When using judicial restraint, a judge will usually ________.

Defer to the decisions of the elected branches of government

** A _________ Is an office holder who represents the will of those who elected him or her and ask and constituents' Expressed interest.

Delegate

*Besides the Supreme Court, there are lower courts in the national system called ________.

District and circuit courts

** The most common term limit across the states that have imposed them is ______ years

Eight

*The Supreme Court's power of judicial review_________.

Enables it to declare acts of the other branches unconstitutional

°° Policy analysts seek________.

Evidence

** Dillons rule gives local governments the freedom and flexibility to make decisions for themselves.

False

** Turn limits have produced statistically significant increase in the number of women serving in state legislatures.

False

** Under consecutive term limits, legislators can serve one time for the number of years allotted And are not permitted to ever compete for the office again.

False

^ Assault executive agreement is likely to be in effect longer than is a treaty.

False

^ Neoconservativism Is an isolationist foreign policy approach of a nation keeping to itself and engaging less internationally.

False

^President George W. Bush was a proponent of liberal internationalism in his foreign policy.

False

°° Entitlement (or mandatory) spending is ________.

Formula-based spending that goes to individual citizens

*A case will be placed on the courts docket when ________ justices agreed to do so.

Four

° During George Washington's administration, there were________ cabinet positions.

Four

Which of the following is a way George Washington expanded the power of the presidency?

He appointed the heads of various federal departments as his own advisors.

The increasing value constituents placed on descriptive representation in congress has had the effect of ______.

Increasing the number of minority members in Congress

** Under a ________ political culture citizens will tend to be more tolerant of corruption from their political leaders and less likely to see politics as a noble profession in which citizens should engage

Individualistic

^ All the following are examples of sharply focused foreign policy outputs except ______.

International agreements

A congressperson who pursued a strict delegate model of representation would seek to ________.

Legislate in the way that he or she thinks is best for the constituents

** Under the mayor council system, the ______.

Legislative and executive responsibilities are separated

° The Civil Service Reform act of 1978 created the office of personnel management and the ______.

Merit system's protection board

The people who make up the modern presidents cabinet are the heads of the major federal departments and__________.

Must be confirmed by the Senate

^ The use of drones within other countries borders is consistent with which school of thought?

Neoconservativism

*The justices of the Supreme Court Are _______.

Nominated by the president and confirmed by the Senate

°° Which of the following is not an example of a public policy outcome?

None of the above; all are public policy outcomes

*The Supreme Court consists of _____.

One chief justice and eight associate justices

° The Freedom of Information Act of 1966 helps citizens exercise oversight over the bureaucracy by ________.

Opening government records to citizen scrutiny

** _________ was the first state Institute all mail-in voting an automatic voter registration

Oregon

° The "spoils system" allocated political appointment on basis of _________.

Party loyalty

° The Civil Service Commission was created by the _______.

Pendleton act of 1883

President Theodore Roosevelt concept of the bully pulpit was the office's _______.

Premier position to pressure through public appeal

** A(n) _______ Vito allows the governor to cross out the budget blinds in the legislator approved budget, while signing the remainder of the budget into law

Reduction

°° Which type of policy directly benefits the most citizens?

Regulatory policy

°° Public policy _______.

Requires multiple actors and branches to carry out

** The 10th amendment created a class of powers exclusive to state governments. These powers are referred to as______.

Reserved powers

Which of the following is an unintended consequence of the rise of the primary and caucus system?

Sometimes candidates unpopular with the party leadership reach the top.

^ The War Powers Resolution _______.

Strengthened presidential war powers

° Two recent periods of large scale bureaucratic expansions were ________.

The 1930s and the 1960s

° Which of the following models of bureaucracy Best accounts for the way beer exercise tend to push congress for more funding each year?

The acquisitive model

°° A deficit is ______.

The annual budget shortfall between revenues and expenditures

^ The federal budget process matters in foreign policy for all the following reasons except ______.

The budget for every presidential action Hass to be approved in advance

House leaders are more powerful than senate leaders because of _______.

The constitutional position of the house

°° Social Security and Medicare are notable for their assistance to which group?

The elderly

^ Why are foreign policy issues more complicated than domestic policy issues?

The international environment is unpredictable.

The saying "all politics is local" roughly means _____.

The local constituents tend to care about things that affect them

** Which of the following is not one of the three forms of county government?

The mayor council system

Which of the following is an implied power of Congress?

The power to regulate the sale of tobacco in the states

^ In terms of formal powers in the realm of foreign policy, _________.

The president and Congress share power

Which of the following is an example of an Executive agreement

The president signs legally binding nuclear arms terms with Iran without seeking congressional approval.

How did the election of 1824 change the way presidents were selected?

The selection of the candidate with fewer electoral votes triggered the rise of party control over nominations.

Many at the Continental Congress or skeptical of allowing presidents to be directly elected by the legislator because _________.

They feared the opportunities created for corruption

°° Toll goods differ from public goods in that _______.

They require the payment of a fee upfront

** In a _______ Political culture, the government is seen as a mechanism For maintaining the existing social order or status quo.

Traditionalistic

° When reformers speak of bureaucratic privatization, they mean all of the following processes except ________.

Whistle blowing

A select committee is different from a standing committee because ________.

a select committee is convened for a specific and temporary purpose, while a standing committee is permanent

*The Supreme Court most typically functions as ________.

an appeals court

*Both state and federal courts hear matters that involve ______.

both civil and criminal law

Senate races tend to inspire ________.

broad discussion of policy issues

The process of redistricting can present problems for congressional representation because ________.

districts are often drawn to benefit partisan groups

** Currently, ______ States have term limits in place.

fifteen

*One of the main ways interest groups participate in Supreme Court cases is by ________.

filing amicus curiae briefs

*A state case is more likely to be heard by the federal courts when ________.

it involves a federal question

The great compromise successfully resolved differences between ________.

large and small states

*In Federalist No. 78, Alexander Hamilton characterized the judiciary as the ________ branch of government.

least dangerous

A very challenging job for new presidents is to ______.

nominate and gain confirmation for their cabinet and hundreds of other officials

*The lawyer who represents the federal government and argues cases before the Supreme Court is the ________.

solicitor general

*In standing by precedent, a judge relies on the principle of ________.

stare decisis

*Of all the court cases in the United States, the majority are handled ________.

state level

The passage of the Tenure of Office Act of 1867 was just one instance in a long line of ________.

struggles for power between the president and the Congress

The key means of advancing modern legislation is now ________.

the budget process

Stopping a filibuster requires that ________.

the chamber votes for cloture