Posc 225 Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

POSC 225 Test 3 JMU NIGHTIGALE COLLEGE Question and answers correctly solved POSC 225 Test 3 JMU Founding and functions of Congress in Article I - correct answer Enumerated powers --> Listed powers Implied Powers --> Powers not listed but have to these Necessary and proper clause Bicameralism and justification - correct answer House and Senate -Checks and balances -Limits congressional power Justification for bicameral -Bicameralism and representation -Oversight: nomin...

POSC 225 Cohen Exam 1 Nightingale College Question and answers correctly solved POSC 225 Cohen Exam 1 Colonial Period- leading up to a Revolution - correct answer French & Indian War ()- bankrupts Great Britain which leads to a clamping down on the colonies to raise revenue (taxes) Stamp Act (1765) Tea Act ( 1773)- tax on imported goods Coercive Acts (1774)- (closed ports, raised tension, led to first continental congress) Battles of Lexington & Concord (1775)- full blown war ( led to ...

POSC 225 Test 1 NIGHTIGALE COLLEGE Question and answers already passed POSC 225 Test 1 (Sulfaro) What are some of the different definitions of politics discussed in class and in the text? - correct answer Politics: the process by which individuals and groups reach agreement on a common course of action even as they continue to disagree on the goals that action is intended to achieve What is the difference between the public sphere and the private sphere? Can you think of examples of ea...

POSC 225 Exam 2 Ferraiolo NIGHTIGALE COLLEGE Question and answers 100% correct POSC 225 Exam 2 Ferraiolo Partisan press - correct answer parties created, sponsors and controlled newspapers to help their own interest penny press - correct answer politically independent, reliance on advertisers as a source of revenue yellow journalism - correct answer increase circulation big headlines, sensationalist stories, want more readers objective journalism - correct answer more respons...

POSC 225 Final Exa1 Question and answers correctly solved POSC 225 Final Exam Public Opinion - correct answer the collective attitudes and beliefs of individuals on one or more issues Public Opinion Polls - correct answer Scientific efforts to estimate what an entire group thinks about an issue by asking a smaller sample of the group for its opinion political socialization - correct answer the Process by which we learn our political orientations and allegiances Patriotism - co...

POSC 225 Cohen Exam 1 UPDATED Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers French and Indian War - CORRECT ANSWER- -1754 to 1763 -"7 year war" -Great Britain goes bankrupt -causes them to tax to increase revenue Stamp Act - CORRECT ANSWER- -1765 -law that taxed printed goods, including: playing cards, documents, newspapers, etc. -Stamp Act Congress Tea Act of 1773 - CORRECT ANSWER- -Law passed by parliament allowing the British East India Company to sell its low-cost tea directly to the colo...

POSC 225 Nightingale College Question and answers already passed POSC 225 Representative Democracy - correct answer -indirect -people rule through elected officials Direct Democracy - correct answer -decided by all citizens, direct voting into the government process - halls Republicanism - correct answer -limited government -popular consent -protection against majority tyranny -believed in by the founders Fundamental Principals of Representative Democracy (3) - correct an...

POSC 225 NIGHTIGALE COLLEGE Question and answers correctly solved

POSC 225 Exam 1 NIGHTIGALE COLLEGE Questions with complete solution POSC 225 Exam 1 governance - correct answer process of governing over a social system government - correct answer a geographic based entity that makes decisions that are binding to society including businesses and residents market governance - correct answer provision of goods and allocations of resources through private actors operating in a market consent of the governed - correct answer people are the sour...

POSC 225 Final Exam JMU NIGHTIGALE COLLEGE Question and answers correctly solved POSC 225 Final Exam JMU monarchy - correct answer royal family, constitutional vs traditional oligarchy - correct answer elite few hold power, dictatorship democracy - correct answer citizens consent to be governed elements of a trustworthy scientific poll - correct answer appropriate sample size, sampling error liberal - correct answer -pro: gov actions to promote equality and more spending...