1st Edition
PSC 1113: American Federal Government
School: The University of Oklahoma (OU )
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Pages: 12This outline covers most of the material for exam 3 including going public, the congressional agenda, and mandates. It also covers supreme court nominations, the influence of reality courts on people, and the bureaucracy. Finally, it discusses the size of the government and what this means in term of local policy and foreign policy. -
Pages: 2This outline centers on foreign policy and our shift from isolationism to interventionism. It also discusses the challenges of foreign policy. -
Pages: 2This outlines covers the growing government, its policies, and its programs such as TANF, Medicaid, and SNAP. -
Pages: 2The outline covers the bureaucracy, specifically holding them accountable and overseeing them (muckraking). It also discusses the eight stages of the policy process. -
Pages: 2The main topic of this outline is the judiciary. It discusses getting nominated, how the president decides, the publicity of nomination, and how outsiders influence the nomination. -
Pages: 2This outline covers the effects of "reality tv" court cases as well as the weighty importance of Supreme Court nominations. -
Pages: 3This outline continues the discussion of the ways to get leverage for the president's leadership pursuit, especially the concept of a mandate. It also covers the apparent lack of knowledge we have about the Supreme Court and why this occurs. -
Pages: 3This outline explains the idea that Presidents have to get through the media and its challenges as well as the evolution of presidential coverage. It explains the president's role in agenda setting and legislating. Finally, it attempts to explain the various types of Congressional members. -
Pages: 2This outline covers Obama's public appearances and the idea that he may be over- or underexposed. It also discusses the recent shift presidents are making to go more public with their policies in order to persuade the public. -
Pages: 11Candidates, CampaignThis outline covers all of the material the Lecture Concepts for Exam 2 (given to us in discussion) guide us to focus on. It begins with candidates and campaigning. It continues to political participation, development, and mobilization. Next, this outline discusses survey research and old and new media. Finally, this outlines explains the Broken Branch of Congress in detail. -
Pages: 3This outline covers possible ways to fix the Broken Branch as well as the Home Style and Hill Style models of decision-making for members of Congress -
Pages: 3This outline covers the modern media, specifically the concept of the Second Screen Phenomenon as well as the ways in which Congress is broken. -
Pages: 2This outlines covers "old media" and its reasons for fading in our lives. It also discusses new media techniques and its qualities, criticisms, strengths, and appeals. -
Pages: 2This outlines covers the problems and solutions to these problems of the survey process as well as modern media and its usage -
Pages: 3This outline discusses who or what shapes political development as well as opinion stabilization and change. -
Pages: 2This outline covers the reasons people don't participate in politics as well as some reasons people do participate in politics. It also covers mobilization, the process by which certain groups convince others to participate. Finally, it discusses if we talk about politics and if we do, who we talk about politics with. -
Pages: 2This outline mainly covers the principles and techniques of political advertising and major categories of non-voters. -
Pages: 2This outlines covers the considerations potential candidates must think about when deciding if and how to run for president. It also discusses the concept of the Permanent Campaign and the Invisible Primary. -
Pages: 2This outline covers potential candidates for the 2016 presidency as well as questions one must ask oneself as they consider running. -
Pages: 9A comprehensive study guide for all of the lecture material that could be on the exam. It covers, in a nutshell, our perception of our government, the types of presidents that have changed over time, the levels of government and the implications of this, representation, the First Amendment, tolerance, prejudice, social interaction and social capital, lobbying, collective action, and ideology. -
Pages: 3This outlines covers party identification whether democrat, republican, or independent as well as the spectrum between them. -
Pages: 3This outlines covers information about the upcoming exam as well as the ways interests groups work. It also covers the values of Liberals and Conservatives. Finally, it discusses different Ideologies that people have. -
Pages: 3This lecture covers the concept of social capital and how interaction has transformed over time. It also examines political corruption and how it actually happens. -
Pages: 3This outline covers the was support for different groups is changing (or not changing) over time. It discusses the differences in the organizations we, our parents, and our grandparents are involved in and why those differences exist. It covers the shift in participation levels from the 50s and 60s to after the 70s. Finally, it discusses the concept of social capital. -
Pages: 3This outline covers the swinging pendulum between freedom and protection and the causes of that swing. It also examines our tolerance of various groups utilizing Freedom of Expression. It discusses poll inaccuracies and how this relates to prejudices and, finally, how prejudices shape our vote.