Study Guide
AP Government
Chapters 1-6, 8
The following topics are included on your Semester 1 Exam
Institutions processes through which public policies are made are collectively known as?
What institutions are part of the government.
What is the “what” of politics
Linkage Institutions
Policy making process; policy agenda
Public policy involving legislative enactment of taxes and expenditures
Public policy/Public Opinion
Pluralist theory; Hyperpluralist theory; elite class theory
Locke’s philosophy on government: how built, state of nature
Articles of Confederation
Indigenous American Republicanism
Key plans of the constitutional convention; proponents of the plans
Purpose of 3/5th compromise
Powers of the States
Ratification of Constitution (percentages required)
Amendment process (Article 5)
Case that established Judicial Review
Separation of Powers
Checks and Balances
Federation/Confederation/Unitary system of government (examples of each)
Supremacy Clause
Amendments 1-10; 14th Amendment
Implied and Enumerated powers
Full faith and credit provision/privileges and immunity clause/national supremacy
Cases: US v Lopez; Barron v Baltimore; Gitlow v NY; Lemon v Kurtzman; Dennis v US; Roth v US; Miller v California; New York Times v Sullivan; Mapp v Ohio; Gideon v Wainwright; Griswold v Connecticut; Roe v Wade; Dred Scott v Sandford; Plessey v Ferguson; Brown v Board of Education; Swann vs Charlotte-Meclenberg County Schools;
Hunt v Cromartie; Regents of the University of California v Bakke; Grutter v Bollinger;
1984 Equal Access Act
Dual federalism vs cooperative federalism
Grants –in-aid
Fiscal federalism
How does federalism decentralize power?
Examples of Federal powers
Examples of State powers
Incorporation doctrine
Libel vs slander
Exclusionary Rule
De facto vs De jure segregation
Three levels of scrutiny used by the Supreme Court
Civil Rights of 1964
Poll taxes
Demography
Simpson-Mazzoli Act
Minority-majority
Political socialization
Random sampling
Nature of the times voters
Party in government
Party in the electorate
Ticket splitting
Rational choice theory
Blanket primary
Party National Committee
Winner take all system
Realignments occur when…..
Patronage jobs
Party dealignment