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| the chief executive officer of a state and set the agenda for policy making in the state |
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| Who is the most visible politician? |
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| Who is commander in chief of the national guard? |
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| What are the abilities of the governor? |
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| grant pardons, reprieve or postpone an execution |
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| Who is the state's crisis manager in times of natural disaster? |
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| What is most important in a governor's arsenal? |
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| the backing of a strong political party with a commanding majority |
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| What helps the government control the state administration? |
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| a political leader who builds his or her political support party by enflaming people's passions over emotional political process. (Manipulate using appeals to basest instincts to achieve objectives) |
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| politicians that see their jobs as keeping the engine of the government running as smoothly as possible and do not begin many new initiatives. |
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| What issues do governors most often deal with? |
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| social change and political economy |
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| chief law enforcement officer of a state |
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| The state officer responsible for making sure funds are spent properly and legally. |
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| Statewide officer who succeeds the governor if the governor leaves. |
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| A statewide office for administering the state election system, publishing a legislative manual, caring for state recors, and conducting various clerical duties. |
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| The state officer responsible for custody of state funds and for writing the checks that pay state obligation. |
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| A process in which something such as a budget, changes ina proportionally small ways from year to year. |
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| A recruitment method for government jobs in which people are hired as a reward for their political support of winning canidates |
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| The practice of government contracting with private firms to provide public services |
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| Power of a governor to prevent a bill's passage by the legislature and blocking it from becoming a law. |
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| A patronage theory of [ublic hiring in which the winning candidates in elections should be able to find jobs for their supporters in the public bureaucracies. |
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| Power of the governor in some states to return a bill to the legislature with proposed revisions. If the legislature accepts the revisions, the bill becomes law. If not, the bill is vetoed. |
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| What are the duties of courts in America |
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| Resolve legal disputes, help set many public policies, and become intimately involved in the administration of some of those policies |
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| Federal and State Government |
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| Ways that politics enter the judicial process |
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| through the selection of judges, the political nature of some judicial decisions, the socioeconomic background of judges, and the activities of interest groups. |
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| The first ten amendments to the Constitution of the US |
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| that portion of the law that deal with conflicts between individuals and groups rather than with crimes. |
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| Law that deals with the violation of legislative statutes that prohibits various behaviors such as murder, kidnapping, and robbery. |
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| Law that deals with the violation of legislative statutes that prohibits various behaviors such as murder, kidnapping, and robbery. |
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| group of citizens empanelled to hear a particular situation and determine whether enough evidence exists to indict somebody in a crime |
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| a court oder prohibiting a person from carrying out a particular act |
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| Judges practice of using judicial review to impose their own beliefs on the law and to overrule policies set by legislators and executives; the term is usually used by people who disagree with a particular decision |
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| Judges' practice of making limited use of judicial review and generally restraining from overruling policies set by administrators and executives. |
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| a lesser crime, usually brings a limited fine or short jail sentence |
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| A definition of poverty that says that no one is deprived of the necessities of life if one falls below a specific income line |
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| Major State Government Expenditures are: |
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| education, welfare, highways, and aid to local governments. |
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| State Governments get their revenue from... |
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| federal aid, sales tax, and income taxes |
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| Three important variables when evaluating taxes... |
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| equity, certainty, and yield |
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| Criteria for deciding what kinds of entrepreneurial activities are proper for governments |
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| social goods, merit goods, and externalities |
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| Examples of externalities |
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| oil spill and air pollution |
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| What do state and local governments rely on when borrowing money? |
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| In what main area do conservatives and liberals differ? |
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| the causes of poverty and the ways that the government should deal with poverty |
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| In order to implement welfare policies... |
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| there are a series of complicated interactions among federal, state, and local governments, along with private sector groups. |
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| Why do welfare benefit levels vary from state to state? |
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| differences in affluence and levels of political competition, the political activity of blue collar workers and the poor, and differences in political culture. |
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| What are the most costly social welfare policies? |
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| Social security and health care |
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| What has been the dominate unit of school governance? |
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| Conservatives' view of educational problems |
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| both failures of individual students and the failures of the public school system. |
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| The desegregation effort was backed by |
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| the court system and supreme court |
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| a government run health insurance program for elderly people of all income levels. |
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| Program that provides medical assistance for people who can't afford their own health care. |
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| The federal government's official definition of poverty, based on the assumption that having less than three times the income needed to buy food on a modest food plan constitutes poverty. |
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| A definition of poverty that says that a person can be considered poor only in relation to the rest of the people in a society |
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| A reference to the social sphere of Darwin's theory of natural selection and survival of the fittest. |
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| an educated emphasis on including instruction about many cultural groups in society. |
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| segregation that arises because of residential practices rather than because of laws requiring segregation. |
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| segregation that is imposed by law rather than by informal residential practices. |
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| a form of cultural pluralism that rejects the idea of a mainstream american culture as oppressively Eurocentric |
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| the situation in which neighboring governmental jurisdictions vary widely in their ability to raise revenue. |
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| a municipal ordinance that establishes minimum requirement for space, electricity, plumbling, and health issues for residential buildings. |
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| the phenomenon whereby low income people are forced to move out of their homes by urban renewal agencies, the gentrification process, or freeway construction. |
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| the practice by a municipality of puttig expensive construction requirements into the local zoning and building code, this drives up the cost of new housing and therefor excludes low income people. |
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| the practice of requiring municipalities to include in their housing plans provisions for low income people. |
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| the process whereby upper-middle class people move into the inner city neighboorhoods and rehabilitate the homes there or move into homes rehabilitated by developers. |
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| the practice of mortgage lenders and insurance firms not providing mortgages or home insurances in risky areas of cities. |
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| this program has traditionally relied on local government to acquire and clear parcels of lang in rundown areas. the land is cold to developers to s for new buildings |
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| a municipal ordinance that divides the city into different zones, with each zone being limited to specific kinds of structures. |
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| the roads, buildings, sewers, water supply systems, and similar structures essential for an economy to operate. |
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| the legal taking of private property for a public purpose under the 5th Amendment |
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| Costs that are not borne directly by the buyer or sellers of a particular product |
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| goods that society judges all citizens should have as a matter of right |
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| goods whose benefits are nondivisible and nonexclusive |
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| the forgiving of local property for a firm that dramatically expands a facility. |
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