APP EXAM #3 UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS
Question:
1. Identify and describe a political action committee
Answer:
Political arm of a business, labor, trade, professional, or other groups
-legally authorized to raise voluntary funds from employees or members from a group to contribute to a
party or candidate
Question:
2. Identify by name and component elements of the three dominant regime structures in American politics,
and their approximate dates, from the colonial period to the present
Answer:
1. The Deferential-Republican Regime
-1600-1800s
-ideas derived from the Old World
-assumed common man was self interested, never reach out of the common man b/c elites were elected
-all parties and factions were local
-republican
2. The Party-Democratic Regime
-1800s-1930s
- beginning of two party system
-parties focused on winning not governing
-all parties and factions expanded past local point and they split apart even more
3. The Populist- Bureaucratic Regime
-ideological scale increased and parties factionalized within themselves
-public affairs defined outside of party-political apparatus, parties in favor of direct appeals to populace
-new vocabulary and titles emerge
-media began playing a big role in politics
Question:
3. Explain the new political vocabulary that emerged in the 1940s (K)
Answer:
Erosion of party as norm of political identity: non-partisan, bi-partisan, independent, centrist, moderate,
and mainstream
-labels: liberal and progressive, fascist and communist, conservative and neo-conservative, radical and
progressive, left and right, New Left and Radical Right, start to become used often
-red and blue America Rather than just using Republicans and Democrats
-vocab of managerial society: the Pentagon Beltway, the Oval Office, the West Wing
Question:
4. Identify the two principal orchestrators of the new American populism 1930-1960
Answer:
FDR and Eisenhower
, Question:
5. What is a standing committee of the congress?
Answer:
permanent committees that focus on specific area of legislation Ex: House Committee on Homeland
Security
Question:
6. Compare the notions of the Imperial Presidency and the "imperiled" Presidency
Answer:
Imperial: used to refer to presidents who are too strong , too powerful for our own good
-60s presidents were too strong, resembles monarchy
-initially applied to Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon Imperiled: used to refer to presidents that are too
weak, not powerful enough to govern effectively
-initially applied to Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter
Question:
7. Implied powers in the U.S. Constitution
Answer:
Source: necessary and proper clause or elastic clause Reasoning: gives Congress power to choose the
means it considers necessary to achieve its legislative ends
Question:
8. Populist and bureaucratic in Keller's identification of Regime 3
Answer:
P: public affairs are defined by voices outside party-political apparatus, who claim to speak for social
interests or for "the people"
-the media, advocacy groups, experts, bureaucrats, judges B:reliance on gov agencies and courts to define
and enforce public policy
Question:
9. Basic elements of the Employment Act of 1946
Answer:
-Declared that it was federal gov's responsibility to manage the economy
-also gave the presidency power to control the economy and employment
-was passed in the 30s due to mass unemployment and the fact that there was no plan for economic policy
Question:
10. Basic elements of the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008
Answer:
-act authorized the president, acting through the secretary of the treasury, to spend up to $700 billion to
"rescue" distressed financial institutions
Question:
11. "Sole organ" doctrine of the Presidency
Answer:
The doctrine holds that the president is the sole organ of the nation in foreign affairs
-used in times of war to assert control over foreign affairs, especially when challenged by congress
CORRECT ANSWERS
Question:
1. Identify and describe a political action committee
Answer:
Political arm of a business, labor, trade, professional, or other groups
-legally authorized to raise voluntary funds from employees or members from a group to contribute to a
party or candidate
Question:
2. Identify by name and component elements of the three dominant regime structures in American politics,
and their approximate dates, from the colonial period to the present
Answer:
1. The Deferential-Republican Regime
-1600-1800s
-ideas derived from the Old World
-assumed common man was self interested, never reach out of the common man b/c elites were elected
-all parties and factions were local
-republican
2. The Party-Democratic Regime
-1800s-1930s
- beginning of two party system
-parties focused on winning not governing
-all parties and factions expanded past local point and they split apart even more
3. The Populist- Bureaucratic Regime
-ideological scale increased and parties factionalized within themselves
-public affairs defined outside of party-political apparatus, parties in favor of direct appeals to populace
-new vocabulary and titles emerge
-media began playing a big role in politics
Question:
3. Explain the new political vocabulary that emerged in the 1940s (K)
Answer:
Erosion of party as norm of political identity: non-partisan, bi-partisan, independent, centrist, moderate,
and mainstream
-labels: liberal and progressive, fascist and communist, conservative and neo-conservative, radical and
progressive, left and right, New Left and Radical Right, start to become used often
-red and blue America Rather than just using Republicans and Democrats
-vocab of managerial society: the Pentagon Beltway, the Oval Office, the West Wing
Question:
4. Identify the two principal orchestrators of the new American populism 1930-1960
Answer:
FDR and Eisenhower
, Question:
5. What is a standing committee of the congress?
Answer:
permanent committees that focus on specific area of legislation Ex: House Committee on Homeland
Security
Question:
6. Compare the notions of the Imperial Presidency and the "imperiled" Presidency
Answer:
Imperial: used to refer to presidents who are too strong , too powerful for our own good
-60s presidents were too strong, resembles monarchy
-initially applied to Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon Imperiled: used to refer to presidents that are too
weak, not powerful enough to govern effectively
-initially applied to Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter
Question:
7. Implied powers in the U.S. Constitution
Answer:
Source: necessary and proper clause or elastic clause Reasoning: gives Congress power to choose the
means it considers necessary to achieve its legislative ends
Question:
8. Populist and bureaucratic in Keller's identification of Regime 3
Answer:
P: public affairs are defined by voices outside party-political apparatus, who claim to speak for social
interests or for "the people"
-the media, advocacy groups, experts, bureaucrats, judges B:reliance on gov agencies and courts to define
and enforce public policy
Question:
9. Basic elements of the Employment Act of 1946
Answer:
-Declared that it was federal gov's responsibility to manage the economy
-also gave the presidency power to control the economy and employment
-was passed in the 30s due to mass unemployment and the fact that there was no plan for economic policy
Question:
10. Basic elements of the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008
Answer:
-act authorized the president, acting through the secretary of the treasury, to spend up to $700 billion to
"rescue" distressed financial institutions
Question:
11. "Sole organ" doctrine of the Presidency
Answer:
The doctrine holds that the president is the sole organ of the nation in foreign affairs
-used in times of war to assert control over foreign affairs, especially when challenged by congress
