POLS 207 Review 2
Part 1:
1. Describe what roles voters, parties, and candidates of parties represented in the
“Responsible Party Model”.
2. What are the flaws of the Responsible Party Model?
3. Define party machine.
4. Describe the 5 factors that have weakened party control over electoral politics
5. Explain the past and present existences of party competition in the states, and list a few
exceptions that differ from the norm.
6. What percentage of states have a currently divided government?
7. Explain the effects of party competition on public policy.
8. Overall, what role do party organizationms play in the states?
9. What are the functions of state party organizations?
10.Why might uncontested races be a sign of failure of a party?
11.How did the Texas Party System progressively change over time from being more
democratic to more republican
12.Describe the challenges faced by third parties over time, specifically for the Greenback
Party and the Populist Party in the 1890s.
13.What was the reaction to the challenge of the Populists and how did they strategically
answer back populists?
14.How did the democratic party reinforce democratic party loyalty?
15.What are the implications of one-party dominance?
16.What were the indications of party realignment in Texas?
Part 2:
1. How do primaries play a significant role in decreasing the importance of parties?
2. What implications may be seen through the creation of primaries? Though they may
appear inherently a net positive, what are the drawbacks that come from this? Compare
this to the positives.
3. List the seven types of primaries and include their descriptions, their drawbacks, and
their positives.
4. In what primary does Texas exist in?
5. What type of primary do most leaders prefer and why?
6. Why might sabotage explain the failure of blanket primaries and why they no longer
exist? In what states did they originally exist in?
7. Explain how name recognition, media attention, and campaign themes may help
promote personal campaign goals. List a few examples of how this may specifically have
been applied or can be.
8. What may limit the contributions and abilities of campaigns fulfilling their goals?
●
, 9. What is the general cap on contributions that political action committees (PACs) can give
to candidates? How do California and Texas differ from this?
10.True or false: there is an existing limit to which PACs can contribute financially to
campaigns in Texas.
FALSE
11.What was the significance of the Disclosure Act of 1973?
This made Texans required to disclose where their money is coming from or being received from
PACs.
Part 3:
1. What are the primary functions of the state legislature?
Policy making, representation, and oversight.
2. Describe the difference in roles between the delegates and trustees as seen in the
Representation of State Legislatures.
3. Why is there not always an existence of delegates or trustees all the time? When might
one be better to execute issues than the other? Provide 3 primary reasons why
delegates and trustees are so complex in representing policy.
If you are helping with policy, you are making and ammending laws as the legislature
Policy representation may be used with delegates who delegate for the people, and Trustees do
the same often without hearing the people and also they’re used when needed during a lack of
a unified voice etc.
4. Explain the difference between the legislature’s representation through policy, casework,
and “bringing home the pork” or “pork-barreling”?
If you are conducting representation, you are using policy representation, casework, and prok
barreling. With this, you are able to use your best interest to bring to your home or hometown
special material that will benefit that district in particular. This could be the implementation of a
new hospital, better roads in Harris County, etc.
And oversight was a concern with how laws were being implemented.
5. What are the characteristics of most State Legislatures and who are more often going to
be in this position?
6. What is the incumbency advantage?
7. Describe the lawmaking process.
8. How does the lawmaking process differ in Texas and Nebraska?
While Texas is more complicated, Nebraska is a unicamera legislature and it is different in the
lawmaking process because of this.
9. What is malapportionment and why did this occur in legislative districts until the 1960’s?
10.Describe gerrymandering and the relevance of the Baker v Carr and Reynolds v. Sims.
11.What groups make up the Legislative-Redistricting Board?
Leuitennant general
Speaker of the House
Attorney general
Comptrollers
Part 1:
1. Describe what roles voters, parties, and candidates of parties represented in the
“Responsible Party Model”.
2. What are the flaws of the Responsible Party Model?
3. Define party machine.
4. Describe the 5 factors that have weakened party control over electoral politics
5. Explain the past and present existences of party competition in the states, and list a few
exceptions that differ from the norm.
6. What percentage of states have a currently divided government?
7. Explain the effects of party competition on public policy.
8. Overall, what role do party organizationms play in the states?
9. What are the functions of state party organizations?
10.Why might uncontested races be a sign of failure of a party?
11.How did the Texas Party System progressively change over time from being more
democratic to more republican
12.Describe the challenges faced by third parties over time, specifically for the Greenback
Party and the Populist Party in the 1890s.
13.What was the reaction to the challenge of the Populists and how did they strategically
answer back populists?
14.How did the democratic party reinforce democratic party loyalty?
15.What are the implications of one-party dominance?
16.What were the indications of party realignment in Texas?
Part 2:
1. How do primaries play a significant role in decreasing the importance of parties?
2. What implications may be seen through the creation of primaries? Though they may
appear inherently a net positive, what are the drawbacks that come from this? Compare
this to the positives.
3. List the seven types of primaries and include their descriptions, their drawbacks, and
their positives.
4. In what primary does Texas exist in?
5. What type of primary do most leaders prefer and why?
6. Why might sabotage explain the failure of blanket primaries and why they no longer
exist? In what states did they originally exist in?
7. Explain how name recognition, media attention, and campaign themes may help
promote personal campaign goals. List a few examples of how this may specifically have
been applied or can be.
8. What may limit the contributions and abilities of campaigns fulfilling their goals?
●
, 9. What is the general cap on contributions that political action committees (PACs) can give
to candidates? How do California and Texas differ from this?
10.True or false: there is an existing limit to which PACs can contribute financially to
campaigns in Texas.
FALSE
11.What was the significance of the Disclosure Act of 1973?
This made Texans required to disclose where their money is coming from or being received from
PACs.
Part 3:
1. What are the primary functions of the state legislature?
Policy making, representation, and oversight.
2. Describe the difference in roles between the delegates and trustees as seen in the
Representation of State Legislatures.
3. Why is there not always an existence of delegates or trustees all the time? When might
one be better to execute issues than the other? Provide 3 primary reasons why
delegates and trustees are so complex in representing policy.
If you are helping with policy, you are making and ammending laws as the legislature
Policy representation may be used with delegates who delegate for the people, and Trustees do
the same often without hearing the people and also they’re used when needed during a lack of
a unified voice etc.
4. Explain the difference between the legislature’s representation through policy, casework,
and “bringing home the pork” or “pork-barreling”?
If you are conducting representation, you are using policy representation, casework, and prok
barreling. With this, you are able to use your best interest to bring to your home or hometown
special material that will benefit that district in particular. This could be the implementation of a
new hospital, better roads in Harris County, etc.
And oversight was a concern with how laws were being implemented.
5. What are the characteristics of most State Legislatures and who are more often going to
be in this position?
6. What is the incumbency advantage?
7. Describe the lawmaking process.
8. How does the lawmaking process differ in Texas and Nebraska?
While Texas is more complicated, Nebraska is a unicamera legislature and it is different in the
lawmaking process because of this.
9. What is malapportionment and why did this occur in legislative districts until the 1960’s?
10.Describe gerrymandering and the relevance of the Baker v Carr and Reynolds v. Sims.
11.What groups make up the Legislative-Redistricting Board?
Leuitennant general
Speaker of the House
Attorney general
Comptrollers
