POLS 207 JASON SMITH ACTUAL EXAM 1

POLS 207 JASON SMITH (ACTUAL / ) EXAM 1

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What is policy conservatism? A state's tendency to limit the welfare benefits, deregulate business, keep taxes low, and generally place less reliance on government and more reliance on individuals and the marketplace to achieve social goals.

What is policy liberalism?A state's tendency to expand welfare benefits, regulate business, adopt progressive state income taxes, and generally use government to achieve social change.

From where do state and local governments derive their revenue?In order to pay for public programs, states and communities must impose taxes. It's important that a state or community find the right level of taxation. States compete for jobs and business within the United States.

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The institutions that make authoritatively binding decision (laws) for society

Politics definition Concerns the management of conflict, who gets what when and how?the activities associated with the governance of a country or other area, especially the debate or conflict among individuals or parties having or hoping to achieve power

Devolution the transfer or delegation of power to a lower level, especially by central government to local or regional administration when power starts to recede from national to state governments

Mandate an official order or commission to do something.Mandate Blues- Mandates direct states or local governments to comply with federal rules under threat of penalties or as a condition of receipt of a federal grant Unfunded mandates

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Preemption the purchase of goods or shares by one person or party before the opportunity is offered to others.

Different ideologies Liberalism- A state's tendency to expand welfare benefits, regulate business, adopt progressive state income taxes, and generally use government to achieve social change.

Conservatism- A state's tendency to limit the welfare benefits, deregulate business, keep taxes low, and generally place less reliance on government and more reliance on individuals and the marketplace to achieve social goals.

Nullification in United States constitutional history, is a legal theory that a state has the right to nullify, or invalidate, any federal law which that state has deemed unconstitutional.

Enumerated powers The powers of the federal government that are specifically described in the Constitution are sometimes called 'delegated' or 'expressed powers,' but most often they are known as

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