gov final

Question 1

Know the significance of the Fair Labor Standards Act.

Question 2

What is laissez-faire economics?

Question 3

What is supply-side economics?

Question 4

What is the difference between progressive and regressive taxes?

Question 5

What are means-tested benefits?

Question 6

What is indexing?

Question 7

What is shadow welfare?

Question 8

What are Medicare and Medicaid and how are they different?

Question 9

Know the difference between noncontributory and contributory programs

Question 10

What is a cost-of-living adjustment?

Question 11

How do America’s health care costs compare to the rest of the world?

Question 12

When was the last balanced budget?

Question 13

What is a budget deficit?

Question 14

What is the national debt?

Question 15

What is an income tax?

Question 16

What is monetary policy and what is fiscal policy?

Question 17

What role does the Federal Reserve play in regulating the economy and what tools do they use?

Question 18

How does Congress regulate the economy?

Question 19

What is the definition of public policy?

Question 20

What economic event changed the relationship between the government and the economy?

Question 21

What is a recession?

Question 22

What is a depression?

Question 23

What is inflation?

Question 24

What is gross domestic product?

Question 25

How is the unemployment rate measured?

Question 26

What are tariffs?

Question 27

What are categorical grants?

Question 28

What is a public good?

Question 29

Who was John Maynard Keynes and what did his economic theory propose governments should do to regulate the economy?

Question 30

Know the significance of the National Labor Relations Act

Question 31

What are the main types of government?

Question 32

What is the difference between majority and plurality rule?

Question 33

What main problem is caused by the nature of collective goods?

Question 34

Which civil liberty protections are contained in the original constitution?

Question 35

What is sampling error?

Question 36

What is the political philosophy of Hobbes & Locke?

Question 37

What is the main federal legislation aimed at protecting women’s rights?

Question 38

Distinguish between pure and symbolic speech.

Question 39

Distinguish between interest groups

Answer 39

political parties

Question 40

What is the difference between trustee and instructed delegate theories of representation?

Question 41

What is the main way of holding public officials accountable in a democracy?

Question 42

What is the main program aimed at ensuring that low-income Americans receive a nutritionally adequate diet?

Question 43

Which three legal tests are used by the Supreme Court to determine when unequal treatment is legal?

Question 44

What are the key features of the Civil Rights Act of 1964?

Question 45

What is the minimum voting age in the US?

Question 46

What is the rational ignorance effect?

Question 47

What is the difference between tracking polls

Answer 47

exit polls

Question 48

What is the difference between “hard” and “soft” money in election campaigns?

Question 49

What are: whistle-blowers

Answer 49

the Freedom of Information Act