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Federalism, Ideology, and Media Flashcard Review
Karten in diesem Stapel (22)
- 1Define FederalismThe way of organizing a nation so that two or more levels of government have a formal authority over the same land or people
- 2Of these, which are denied powers to the federal government: -change state boundaries -tax exports -pass bills of attainder -suspend the writ of habeas corpus -grant copyrights-change state boundaries
-tax exports
-suspend habeas corpus - 3Four powers denied to statesenter into treaties, coin money, tax exports or imports, tax federal gov agencies
- 45 powers neither state nor federal govs can dodeny due process of law
abridge bill of rights
grant titles of nobility
pass bills of attainder
pass ex post facto laws - 5what're the three forms of federalismunitary: all power to federal gov
confederacy: all power to states
federal: power is divided/shared - 6What're two sources of conflict regarding federalismtwo examples would be marijuana and illegal immigrants
- 7Four events that tested national supremacy and how they strengthened power of federal govMculloch vs Maryland: implied powers, powers of national gov derived from people
civil war
Gibbins vs ogden
civil rights movement - 8three obligations federal gov has to states-boundary integrity
-republic government
protection from invasion - 9three obligations states have towards eachother-full faith and credit
-privileges and immunities
-extradition - 10advantages of federalism-more opportunities for involvement in politics
-increasing access to gov
-influence of concentrated economy/political interest
-chance for losing parties to rebuild at state or local levels
-reflection of diversity of opinions - 11disadvantages of federalism-states differ in resources it can devote to services
-states may be discouraged from providing some services
-local interests may thwart national majority support of some policies
-sheer number of governments - 12components of scientifically constructed polldefine universe
construct a sample
prepare valid questions
interview
report results with sampling error - 13how many people does it take to increase or decrease error percentage by 110,000
- 14what is a trial balloonits where a politician might purposefully leak information on a government's decision anonamously to gauge public's reaction
- 15who created the sample pollingGeorge Gallup
- 16three examples of how politicians use the mediashape and control public image
get messages out
gauge public reaction - 17problems with pollinglack of random sample
biased wording
public doesn't see wording of polls
oversimplification of problems
response rate is 8%
uninformed responders
"horse-race" journalism
bandwagon effect
cell phone dilemma
politicians follow rather than lead - 18random sampleeveryone has equal probability of being selected for sample
- 19three roles of mediagatekeeper. scorekeeper, watchdog
- 20main two ways media impacts us citizensless informed
impacts the importance with view stories with - 21reason for media being biasedreporters two times as likely as public to call themselves liberal
thirty seven percent of reporters label themselves as Democrat vs nineteen which say they're Republican
narrowcasting - 22reasons media is not biasedpoint counter point stories
journalistic integrity
financial stake to attract viewers
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