Psci 1100 Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

What vote threshold must be reached for the legislature to approve new taxes or raise fees? - Answer a supermajority of 2/3 Which of these tools has Governor Jerry Brown used to balance the state's annual budget? - Answer endorsing a proposition to temporarily raise the state sales tax by ¼ percent The state spends most of its annual budget on_________ . - Answer education and health and human services

collective action action that takes place in groups and diverges from the social norms of the situation collective goods goods that are collectively produced and freely available for anyone's consumption compromise Settlement in which each side concedes some of its preferences in order to secure others. conformity costs the difference between what any one party prefers and what the collective body requires

political party - Answer an organized group of people who have the same ideology, or who otherwise have the same political positions, and who field candidates for elections, in an attempt to get them elected and thereby implement the party's agenda; main 2 in US are democrat and republican Puzzle of parties - Answer Politicians build parties to raise money, awareness, chances of winning elections etc. Parties are beneficial to the politicians.

In an average year, what is the state's largest single source of revenue? - Answer personal income taxes An "excise tax" is surcharge placed on: - Answer liquor, tobacco, and fuel When expenses exceed revenues, the state has: - Answer debt? (wrong ) Proposition 98 dictates that approximately _________ percent of the general fund budget must go to fund K-14 education every year. - Answer 40 percent

17th amendment - Answer allows for direct election of US senators, turned the senate away from state interests Supremacy Clause of Constitution - Answer specifies that national law is supreme so long as national law "conforms to the Constitution." Necessary and Proper Clause (Elastic Clause) - Answer increases national power insofar as it allows congress to "make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing powers"

Typical Functions of a constitution 1. Identify the various forms of authority (e.g. legislative, executive, judicial); 2. Define/allocate the powers of each and their relations to each other; 3. Identify the institutions or individuals who will exercise the various forms of authority and how they are to be chosen; 4. Identify the basic rules or procedures governing how the basic institutions will operate. 5. Set out the relationship between the various forms of authority and the citizens (...

Cleavage 1 of Constitutional Convention - Answer Strength of National Government: some delegates favored a weak national government and some favored a strong national government Cleavage 2 of Constitutional Convention - Answer Representation in the Legislature: states with a large population wanted a system based on state population, and vice versa, states with a small population wanted equal representation for all states

PSCI 1101 Midterm 2 with 100- correct answers 2024.

PSCI 1100 EXAM REVIEW Questions With Correct Answers. What is a State? - answera system of government instituions defined territory and population makes and enforces binding decisions provides certain goods and services exercises a monopoly of force within its territory regulates affairs without outside interference Possesses Legitimacy in the eyes of other states and its population Emergence of The State: Divine Theory - answerstate is a gift from god (chosen land/people) Emergence of...