Pols 207 Jason Smith Exam 1
• What is policy conservatism? - CORRECT ANSWER-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? - CORRECT ANSWER-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? - CORRECT ANSWER-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 - CORRECT ANSWER-The institutions that make
authoritatively binding decision (laws) for society
• Politics definition - CORRECT ANSWER-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 - CORRECT ANSWER-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 - CORRECT ANSWER-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 - CORRECT ANSWER-the purchase of goods or shares by one
person or party before the opportunity is offered to others.
• Different ideologies - CORRECT ANSWER-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 - CORRECT ANSWER-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 - CORRECT ANSWER-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
'enumerated powers,' and they describe how a central government with three
distinct branches can operate effectively.
• Implied powers - CORRECT ANSWER-powers not explicitly named in the
Constitution but assumed to exist due to their being necessary to implement the
expressed powers that are named in Article I
• Political culture - CORRECT ANSWER-the set of attitudes, beliefs, and
sentiments which give order and meaning to a political process and which
provide the underlying assumptions and rules that govern behavior in the
political system. It encompasses both the political ideals and the operating norms
of a polity.
• What are different ways citizens can affect policy? - CORRECT ANSWER-
Public opinion, Media, Interest groups, Elections
• Which levels of government deal with what types of policies? - CORRECT
ANSWER-Federal- declare war, coin money, regulate trade & interstate
commerce, mandate states, create & manage post offices
• What is policy conservatism? - CORRECT ANSWER-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? - CORRECT ANSWER-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? - CORRECT ANSWER-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 - CORRECT ANSWER-The institutions that make
authoritatively binding decision (laws) for society
• Politics definition - CORRECT ANSWER-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 - CORRECT ANSWER-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 - CORRECT ANSWER-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 - CORRECT ANSWER-the purchase of goods or shares by one
person or party before the opportunity is offered to others.
• Different ideologies - CORRECT ANSWER-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 - CORRECT ANSWER-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 - CORRECT ANSWER-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
'enumerated powers,' and they describe how a central government with three
distinct branches can operate effectively.
• Implied powers - CORRECT ANSWER-powers not explicitly named in the
Constitution but assumed to exist due to their being necessary to implement the
expressed powers that are named in Article I
• Political culture - CORRECT ANSWER-the set of attitudes, beliefs, and
sentiments which give order and meaning to a political process and which
provide the underlying assumptions and rules that govern behavior in the
political system. It encompasses both the political ideals and the operating norms
of a polity.
• What are different ways citizens can affect policy? - CORRECT ANSWER-
Public opinion, Media, Interest groups, Elections
• Which levels of government deal with what types of policies? - CORRECT
ANSWER-Federal- declare war, coin money, regulate trade & interstate
commerce, mandate states, create & manage post offices
