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| Lecture Notes 1: Intro to Political Science |
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| Lecture Notes 2: Ratification |
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| Potential for the constitution not to have been ratified |
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| Lecture Notes 3: Federalists vs. Antifederalists |
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| Lecture Notes 4: Reasons for a new Constitution |
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| Lecture Notes 5: the 14th Amendment |
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| Lecture Notes 6: African American fight for Civil Rights |
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| Lecture Notes 7: Political Culture |
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| Views on individualism, freedom and rights, equality of opportunity, and equality of result |
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| Lecture Notes 8: Federalism |
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| What is federalism, power of the government over the american history |
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| Lecture Notes 9: Federalism and State Government |
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| Key economic strategies used by the states |
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| Lecture Notes 10: Representation in Congress |
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| Lecture Notes 11: Congress as a whole vs. Congress individuals |
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| Lecture Notes 12: Perceived and actual powers of the president |
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| Lecture Notes 13: Presidential leadership; structure and agency |
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| Lecture Notes 14: Red Tape |
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| Lecture Notes 15: Court system and judicial review |
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| Lecture Notes 16: Models of Supreme Court decisions |
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| Attitudinal, Legal, and societal models |
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| Lecture Notes 17: The Electoral College |
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| How the electoral college worked then and now. |
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| Lecture Notes 18: Famous presidential campaign ads |
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Ike for president - first tv campaign ad
daisy girl ad - first political slander ad
Bear in the woods ad - cold war was a prominent issue
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| Lecture Notes 19: Initiative, referendum, and recall |
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| Effects of initiatives on what the people want, democratic participation, interest group power, and quality of legislation |
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| Lecture Notes 20: Public opinion; representation vs. intensity |
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polls are representative
Alf Landon vs. FDR
Random sampling |
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| Lecture Notes 21: Public Opinion; interpreting public opinion polls |
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| People may lie about knowing certain issues, some may not know enough facts |
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| Lecture Notes 22: Mass Media; why news covers what it does |
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| How news aims to maximize sales and costs |
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| Lecture Notes 23: The Press; how the news media covers politics |
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| Lecture Notes 24: Political parties and the american two party system |
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| SMPD's, PR, and Instant runoff voting |
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| Lecture Notes 25: Interest groups, money, and elections; American campaign finance laws |
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| PACS, donation limits, 527s |
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| Lecture Notes 26: PAC Influence |
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| How do PACs decide who to give money to? |
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| Federalist 10: Factions and representative democracy |
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| Federalist 51: Separation of powers |
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| Establishment Clause, 14th amendment, and selective incorporation |
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| Same Sex marriage: FRC opposes it and HRC supports it |
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| Korematsu vs. United States |
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| Justification of States' rights and secession vs. A New Nationalism |
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| Congress members do all in their power to be reelected |
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| Speech to the electors at Bristol |
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| Presidency: framers' attempt to balance the power of the legislative and executive branches. |
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| The Bureaucracy can be a pain to deal with. Principal-agent problem |
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| District, appelate, and supreme courts make up the judiciary |
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| Federalist 78: Judicial branch is to be the weakest |
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| No purse or sword - budget or law enforcement. Need voluntary compliance |
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| Political participation is important in American politics, but not many participate. |
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| Salience, stability, direction, and intensity determine public opinion |
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| Trends in politiical values and core values, 1987-2009 |
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| Most people are now identifying themselves as independents, most are conservative, less conservative on social issues, republican party is losing members. |
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| Media sources may have a major impact on public opinion. |
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| Good bye newspapers (hello new age of corruption) |
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Newspapers are starting to diminish
Local politics will become more corrupt because the news isn't covering it as much. Technology is replacing newspapers, but is not going as in-depth with their stories. |
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| Two party electoral competition has dominated American politics for a long time. |
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| Interest groups may actually help to spread public opinion to the government. |
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