POLS 2302 CORE EXAM MANUAL UPDATED QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔liberal internationalism - ✔✔use military power and international institutions to
pursue a liberal international order
✔✔22nd amendment - ✔✔Amendment that created a 2 term limit on presidents.
✔✔signing statements - ✔✔occasional written comments attached to a bill signed by
the president
✔✔actors in U.S. foreign policy - ✔✔
✔✔Civil service reform act of 1978 - ✔✔abolished the Civil Service Commission. the
law created two new federal agencies: the Office of Personnel Management (OPM has
responsibility for recruiting, interviewing, and testing potential government employees in
order to choose those who should be hired) and the Merit Systems Protection Board
(MSPB is responsible for investigating charges of agency wrongdoing and hearing
appeals when corrective actions are ordered.) It specifically included rights for federal
whistleblowers, those who publicize misdeeds committed within a bureaucracy or other
organization, and set up protection from reprisals.
✔✔U.S. vs. Curtiss-wright export corporation - ✔✔a United States Supreme Court case
involving principles of both governmental regulation of business and the supremacy of
the executive branch of the federal government to conduct foreign affairs. The Supreme
Court concluded not only that foreign affairs power was vested in the national
government as a whole but also that the President of the United States had "plenary"
powers in the foreign affairs field that were not dependent upon congressional
delegation.
✔✔civil right - ✔✔the rights of citizens to political and social freedom and equality.
✔✔civil liberty - ✔✔basic individual rights and freedoms that are protected from
government violation
✔✔congressional budget office - ✔✔government agency that provides economic data to
congress
✔✔office of management and budget - ✔✔the executive agency that advises the
President on the federal budget
✔✔government corporations - ✔✔a business owned and operated by the federal
government
, ✔✔regulatory agencies - ✔✔Agencies of the executive branch created to regulate
certain parts of the economy.
✔✔independent regulatory agencies - ✔✔agencies that are quasi-legislative and quasi-
judicial in nature and operation (FDA, EPA)
✔✔inherent powers - ✔✔powers claimed by a president that are not expressed in the
Constitution but are inferred from it
✔✔Korematsu vs. U.S. - ✔✔The court ruled that the ordering of Japanese=Americans
into internment camps was constitutional
✔✔veto power - ✔✔presidential power to stop a bill from becoming a law by rejecting it
✔✔Executive office of the president - ✔✔the branch of the United States government
that is responsible for carrying out the laws
✔✔acquisitive model - ✔✔proposes that bureaucracies are naturally competitive and
power-hungry. This means bureaucrats, especially at the highest levels, recognize that
limited resources are available to feed bureaucracies, so they will work to enhance the
status of their own bureaucracy to the detriment of others.
✔✔bureaucracy - ✔✔A large, complex organization composed of appointed officials
✔✔negotiated rulemaking - ✔✔process to propose a solution, that is, detailing how
particular new federal polices, regulations, and/or programs will be implemented in the
agencies. neutral advisors known as convenors put together a committee of those who
have vested interests in the proposed rules. The convenors then set about devising
procedures for reaching a consensus on the proposed rules.
✔✔non-contributory programs - ✔✔
✔✔NATO - ✔✔Alliance of the allied powers against the Soviets
✔✔economic sanctions - ✔✔refusal to trade with an offending nation
✔✔free market economics - ✔✔a belief that economic decisions should be made by the
uninhibited functioning of markets
✔✔redistributive policy - ✔✔a government benefit provided to some people that is paid
for by another group of people
✔✔Medicare - ✔✔(LBJ) 1965 , a federal program of health insurance for persons 65
years of age and older
AND ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔liberal internationalism - ✔✔use military power and international institutions to
pursue a liberal international order
✔✔22nd amendment - ✔✔Amendment that created a 2 term limit on presidents.
✔✔signing statements - ✔✔occasional written comments attached to a bill signed by
the president
✔✔actors in U.S. foreign policy - ✔✔
✔✔Civil service reform act of 1978 - ✔✔abolished the Civil Service Commission. the
law created two new federal agencies: the Office of Personnel Management (OPM has
responsibility for recruiting, interviewing, and testing potential government employees in
order to choose those who should be hired) and the Merit Systems Protection Board
(MSPB is responsible for investigating charges of agency wrongdoing and hearing
appeals when corrective actions are ordered.) It specifically included rights for federal
whistleblowers, those who publicize misdeeds committed within a bureaucracy or other
organization, and set up protection from reprisals.
✔✔U.S. vs. Curtiss-wright export corporation - ✔✔a United States Supreme Court case
involving principles of both governmental regulation of business and the supremacy of
the executive branch of the federal government to conduct foreign affairs. The Supreme
Court concluded not only that foreign affairs power was vested in the national
government as a whole but also that the President of the United States had "plenary"
powers in the foreign affairs field that were not dependent upon congressional
delegation.
✔✔civil right - ✔✔the rights of citizens to political and social freedom and equality.
✔✔civil liberty - ✔✔basic individual rights and freedoms that are protected from
government violation
✔✔congressional budget office - ✔✔government agency that provides economic data to
congress
✔✔office of management and budget - ✔✔the executive agency that advises the
President on the federal budget
✔✔government corporations - ✔✔a business owned and operated by the federal
government
, ✔✔regulatory agencies - ✔✔Agencies of the executive branch created to regulate
certain parts of the economy.
✔✔independent regulatory agencies - ✔✔agencies that are quasi-legislative and quasi-
judicial in nature and operation (FDA, EPA)
✔✔inherent powers - ✔✔powers claimed by a president that are not expressed in the
Constitution but are inferred from it
✔✔Korematsu vs. U.S. - ✔✔The court ruled that the ordering of Japanese=Americans
into internment camps was constitutional
✔✔veto power - ✔✔presidential power to stop a bill from becoming a law by rejecting it
✔✔Executive office of the president - ✔✔the branch of the United States government
that is responsible for carrying out the laws
✔✔acquisitive model - ✔✔proposes that bureaucracies are naturally competitive and
power-hungry. This means bureaucrats, especially at the highest levels, recognize that
limited resources are available to feed bureaucracies, so they will work to enhance the
status of their own bureaucracy to the detriment of others.
✔✔bureaucracy - ✔✔A large, complex organization composed of appointed officials
✔✔negotiated rulemaking - ✔✔process to propose a solution, that is, detailing how
particular new federal polices, regulations, and/or programs will be implemented in the
agencies. neutral advisors known as convenors put together a committee of those who
have vested interests in the proposed rules. The convenors then set about devising
procedures for reaching a consensus on the proposed rules.
✔✔non-contributory programs - ✔✔
✔✔NATO - ✔✔Alliance of the allied powers against the Soviets
✔✔economic sanctions - ✔✔refusal to trade with an offending nation
✔✔free market economics - ✔✔a belief that economic decisions should be made by the
uninhibited functioning of markets
✔✔redistributive policy - ✔✔a government benefit provided to some people that is paid
for by another group of people
✔✔Medicare - ✔✔(LBJ) 1965 , a federal program of health insurance for persons 65
years of age and older
