POLS 1101FINAL REVIEW

Final Exam Details

• Friday, December 7rd. 12:00 p.m. HERE!

• Final exam is 25% of your total grade.

• Approximately 8-10 questions from each chapter.

Chapter 1

• 5 principles• Politics• Instrumental• Government• Autocracy• Oligarchy• Democracy• Authoritarian• Totalitarian• Institutions• Jurisdiction

• Agenda Power• Veto power• Principal-agent• Transaction costs• Collective action• Free riding• Public good• Delegation• Selective benefits• Path dependency

Chapter 2

• Articles of Confederation• Great compromise• Three-fifths compromise• Bicameralism• Expressed power• Necessary and proper• Judicial review• Supremacy clause

• Separation of powers• Federalism• Bill of Rights• Checks and Balances• Tyranny

Chapter 3

• Sovereignty• Reserved powers• Implied powers• Police power• Concurrent powers• Full faith and credit• Privileges and immunities• Dual federalism• Commerce clause• Cooperative federalism

• Grants-in-aid• Categorical grants• Unfunded mandates• Formula grants• Block grants• States’ rights• Legislative supremacy• Divided government• Executive privilege• Habeas corpus

Chapter 4

• Civil liberties• Miranda rule• Establishment clause• Lemon test• Free exercise clause• Clear and present danger• Speech plus• Prior restraint• Right to privacy

• Libel• Slander• Fighting words• Due process• Exclusionary rule• Grand jury• Double jeopardy• Eminent domain

Chapter 5

• Civil rights• Equal protection clause• Separate but equal• De jure segregation• De facto segregation• Intermediate scrutiny• Affirmative action• Ledbetter v Goodyear Tire• Franklin V Gwinnet County

Public Schools

• Brown v Board of Education• Law v Nichols• Mendez v Westminster• Grutter v Bollinger• Lawrence v Texas• Roe v Wade• Plessy v Ferguson

Chapter 6• Constituency• Delegate• Trustee• Incumbency• Patronage• Case work• Pork-barrel• Gerrymandering• Party conference• Speaker of the house• Majority/minority leader• Standing Committee• Executive agreement

• Gatekeeping• Conference Committee• Oversight• Agency loss• Closed Rule• Open Rule• Filibuster• Cloture• Pocket veto• Party vote• Roll call votes• Whips• Logrolling• Impeachment

Chapter 7

• Caucus system• Delegated powers• Inherent powers• Commander in chief• War Powers Resolution• Executive privilege• Veto• Line-item veto

• Legislative initiative• Executive order• Cabinet• White House staff• Kitchen cabinet• Executive Office of the

President• Signing statement

Chapter 8

• Bureaucracy• Implementation• Rule making• Administrative

adjudication• Clientele agency• Regulatory agency• Administrative

legislation

• Fiscal Policy• Monetary policy• Federal Reserve• Bureaucratic drift• Oversight• Deregulation• Devolution• Privatization

Chapter 9• Criminal law• Civil law• Precedent• Stare decisis• Public law• Trial court• Appellate court• Supreme court• Jurisdiction• Due process• Chief justice• Senatorial courtesy

• Standing• Mootness• Writ of certiorari• Amicus curiae• Oral argument• Opinion• Judicial restraint• Judicial activism• Rule of four• Class-action suit

Chapter 10• Public opinion• Political socialization• Agents of socilization• Gender gap• Liberal• Conservative• Agenda-setting effect• Priming• Framing• Public opinion poll

• Sample• Probability sampling• Random digit dialing• Selection bias• Sampling error• Measurement error• Push polling• Salient interest• Illusion of salience• Bandwagon effect

Chapter 11• Adverse selection• Moral hazard• Australian ballot• Single-member district• Electoral college• Plurality rule• Majority rule• Proportional representation• Duverger’s Law• Political action committee

• Referendum• Initiative• Recall• Party identification• Issue voting• Prospective voting• Retrospective voting• Spatial issue• Median-voter theorem• Valence issue

Chapter 12

• Political Party• Nomination• Closed primary• Open primary• Majority party• Party identification• Party activist

• Gender gap• Political caucus• Party machine• Third party• Single-member district• Multiple-member

district

Chapter 13

• Interest group• Pluralism• PAC• Informational benefits• Material benefits• Political entrepeneur• Prisoner’s dilemma

• Solidary benefits• Purposive benefits• Lobbying• Going public• Initiative• Selective benefits

Chapter 14

• Equal time rule• Right of rebuttal• Fairness doctrine• Prior restraint• Citizen journalism• New York Times v

Sullivan• Hard/Soft news

• FCC• Press release• Leaks