POLS 2311 Exam 3

Unit Three Study Guide
Chapter 12
1. What are the requirements to be president?
2. What is the Whig theory?
3. What is an invisible primary?
4. What is the unit rule?
5. How many electoral votes does it take to win the presidency?
6. What is the cabinet?
7. What is a parliamentary system?
8. Who is Richard Neustadt?
Chapter 13
9. What is a bureaucracy?
10. What is Deepwater Horizon?
11. What is a government corporation?
12. What are regulatory agencies?
13. What are Independent agencies?
14. What are Presidential Commissions?
15. What is the merit system?
16. What is the Spoils system?
17. What is patronage?
18. What was the Pendleton act?
19. Describe the budget process?
20. What are clientele groups?
21. What is the GAO?
22. What is Whistleblowing?
Chapter 15
23. What is laissez faire economics?
24. Who was Adam Smith?
25. What is meant be deregulation?
26. Who was Rachel Carson?
27. What is fiscal policy?
28. What is monetary policy?
29. Who was John Maynard Keynes?
30. What is the budget deficit?
31. What is the national debt?
32. The Federal Reserve Act.
33. What is inflation?
34. Who is Janet Yellen?
Chapter 16.
35. What is a progressive tax?
36. What is a regressive tax?
37. What is the poverty line?
38. What is AFDC?
39. What is a means test?
40. What is an entitlement program?
41. What is Medicare?
42. What is Medicaid?

Essay Questions

1. Compare and Parliamentary and Presidential systems of government. What are the major features of each and what are the advantages and disadvantages of each? What are the requirements both official nd unofficial, to be President? What is required to win the Presidency?  Also discuss impeachment and Presidential succession.

2. Discuss the six roles of the President. What are the President's powers and responsibilities in each role? Note any Congressional acts that impact the President's ability to carry out these roles

3. Discuss who makes foreign policy. Who are the key people, agencies, departments and groups that help shape American Foreign Policy