1st Edition
POLS 207: State & Local Goverment
School: Texas A&M University (TAMU )
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Pages: 16Study Guide covering the three branches of government and how they operate within the states. Then moving on to how effective the state governments are at enacting policies that improve education and combat crime and poverty. Further information and study questions will be added after tuesday's lecture. -
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Pages: 5Looking at the Judicial branch and their affects on the states. Then moving onto chapter 12 which looks at how effective state policies are. -
Pages: 5How the executive branch affects our lives and represents us. The Texas Executive and policy making. -
Pages: 4Finishing how a bill becomes a law and moving on to the Texas Legislative process. -
Pages: 5Moving onto legislative policy and how this represents the people. How a bill is turned into law etc. -
Pages: 16Covering chapters 6-8 with information on political parties, interest groups, individual participation in government and local government. -
Pages: 5Finishing off the different forms of local government and looking at their revenue and expenditure. -
Pages: 4The first local government and county revenues and local revenues. -
Pages: 7Finishing political parties and moving on to look at interest groups and how they function to influence government. -
Pages: 5Finishing factors affecting turnout and Texas voting laws. Then moving onto parties and interest groups and the history of the party system in the US. -
Pages: 6Voting behavior in the US and Texas. Why people vote, why turnout is declining and who votes. -
Pages: 5How the public participates in government and how this is measured. A lot at the problems with polling and the errors we can get. -
Pages: 6Continuing Government Revenues and Expenditures. Concentrating on the different taxes and state and local revenues and expenditures. -
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Pages: 4Looking at the different taxes we pay and the different types of taxes. Focussing on the types especially. -
Pages: 7Finishing the origins of concern with government with a look at different forms of government and constitutions. They moving onto government expenditure and revenues. -
Pages: 5Finishing off from Tuesday lecture and then moving onto the different periods of government. The rise of federal power and the problems people have with this. -
Pages: 6A look at the role of government in the economy and in society. Ideological spectrums and how this affects partisanship. Then how this affects institutions. References to graphs and tables in the textbook. -
Pages: 4A discussion of the differing political cultures among states and the role of government in these. Also a look at the different types of government's and where the US fits on the spectrum. -
Pages: 5Coverage of lectures 1 - 5. An overview of the different services that each level of government pays for. How Texas differs from other states and the relationships between different variables and policy. -
Pages: 4A further look at correlations and the state differences and relationships between variables. Graphs show the states actual position with the regression line showing the predicted position. Problems with empirical analyses and the possible relationships. -
Pages: 2Finishing the state expenditures and rankings. Starting to look at the differences between states and the relationships between variables. -
Pages: 2A look at state and federal expenditures. Powerpoint shows the tables and graphs. Where Texas spends it money.