POLS 207 JASON SMITH (ACTUAL 2025/2026) EXAM 1
QUESTIONS VERIFIED CORRECT ANSWERS
What is policy conservatism?
A state's tendency to limit the welfare benefits,
deregulate business, keep taxes low, and generally place
less reliance on government and more reliance on
individuals and the marketplace to achieve social goals.
What is policy liberalism?
A state's tendency to expand welfare benefits, regulate
business, adopt progressive state income taxes, and generally
use government to achieve social change.
From where do state and local governments derive their
revenue?
In order to pay for public programs, states and communities
must impose taxes. It's important that a state or community
find the right level of taxation. States compete for jobs and
business within the United States.
Government definition
,The institutions that make authoritatively binding decision
(laws) for society
Politics definition
Concerns the management of conflict, who gets what when
and how?
the activities associated with the governance of a country or
other area, especially the debate or conflict among individuals
or parties having or hoping to achieve power
Devolution
the transfer or delegation of power to a lower level, especially
by central government to local or regional administration
when power starts to recede from national to state
governments
Mandate
an official order or commission to do something.
Mandate Blues- Mandates direct states or local governments
to comply with federal rules under threat of penalties or as a
condition of receipt of a federal grant
Unfunded mandates
, Preemption
the purchase of goods or shares by one person or party before
the opportunity is offered to others.
Different ideologies
Liberalism- A state's tendency to expand welfare benefits,
regulate business, adopt progressive state income taxes, and
generally use government to achieve social change.
Conservatism- A state's tendency to limit the welfare benefits,
deregulate business, keep taxes low, and generally place less
reliance on government and more reliance on individuals and
the marketplace to achieve social goals.
Nullification
in United States constitutional history, is a legal theory that a
state has the right to nullify, or invalidate, any federal law
which that state has deemed unconstitutional.
Enumerated powers
The powers of the federal government that are specifically
described in the Constitution are sometimes called 'delegated'
or 'expressed powers,' but most often they are known as
QUESTIONS VERIFIED CORRECT ANSWERS
What is policy conservatism?
A state's tendency to limit the welfare benefits,
deregulate business, keep taxes low, and generally place
less reliance on government and more reliance on
individuals and the marketplace to achieve social goals.
What is policy liberalism?
A state's tendency to expand welfare benefits, regulate
business, adopt progressive state income taxes, and generally
use government to achieve social change.
From where do state and local governments derive their
revenue?
In order to pay for public programs, states and communities
must impose taxes. It's important that a state or community
find the right level of taxation. States compete for jobs and
business within the United States.
Government definition
,The institutions that make authoritatively binding decision
(laws) for society
Politics definition
Concerns the management of conflict, who gets what when
and how?
the activities associated with the governance of a country or
other area, especially the debate or conflict among individuals
or parties having or hoping to achieve power
Devolution
the transfer or delegation of power to a lower level, especially
by central government to local or regional administration
when power starts to recede from national to state
governments
Mandate
an official order or commission to do something.
Mandate Blues- Mandates direct states or local governments
to comply with federal rules under threat of penalties or as a
condition of receipt of a federal grant
Unfunded mandates
, Preemption
the purchase of goods or shares by one person or party before
the opportunity is offered to others.
Different ideologies
Liberalism- A state's tendency to expand welfare benefits,
regulate business, adopt progressive state income taxes, and
generally use government to achieve social change.
Conservatism- A state's tendency to limit the welfare benefits,
deregulate business, keep taxes low, and generally place less
reliance on government and more reliance on individuals and
the marketplace to achieve social goals.
Nullification
in United States constitutional history, is a legal theory that a
state has the right to nullify, or invalidate, any federal law
which that state has deemed unconstitutional.
Enumerated powers
The powers of the federal government that are specifically
described in the Constitution are sometimes called 'delegated'
or 'expressed powers,' but most often they are known as
