Overview
Final Exam Study Guide
- What is the media?
- What is the function of the media?
- Slander and Libel
- Media as a watchdog
- Implied powers vs enumerate powers
- Investigative journalism
- Agenda setting and issue framing
- Cabinet members
- What do political parties do?
- Two-party system (Duverger’s Law and Institutional Barriers)
- The US’s Founding Fathers and political parties
- What are interest groups? What are lobbyists? Differences
- Iron triangle
- Citizens United vs the Federal Election Commission
- The main function of Congress (House of Representatives vs. Senate)
- The main function of the Presidency
- How have presidents used their position to increase the power of the presidency?
- The main function of the Supreme Court
- Dual court system
- Guardians of the Constitution and individual rights
- Foreign and domestic policy
- What is domestic policy?
- What is foreign policy?
- public policy process
- How do the three-branch play a role in policymaking?
- California
- How is CA Governor? Lt Governor? CA Attorney General?
- What is a recall? Referendum? Amendment vs. Revision?
- What is the composition of the CA State Legislature?