Politcal Science test 2

Created by AlexBuliis318

Know Tables: 6.2 and 9.1 A

- Delegate Model of Representation
- The philosophy that legislators should adhere to the will of their constituents
- Trustee Model of Representation
- The philosophy that legislators should consider the will of the people but act in ways theybeli...
- Politico Model of Representation
- The philosophy that legislators should follow their own judgement until the public becomesvocal...
- Conscience Model of Representation
- The philosophy that legislators should follow the will of the people until they trulybelieveit ...
- Original Jurisdiction
- The authority of a court to try or resolve a case being heard for the first time
- Flexible interpretation
- An approach to interpretting the US constitution that permits the meaning of the document to ch...
- Cracking
- multiple political parties in one district
- Pendleton Act of 1883
- applicants for specified federal gov. jobs were supposed to be tested,demonstrate qualification...
- vesting clause of Article 2
- “executive power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America.”
- vesting clause of Article 1
- “All legislative powers herein granted”
- Privatization
- process of turning some responsibilities of gov. bureaucracy over to private organizations on t...
- Decentralization
- proposed reform for gov. officials/agencies intended to increase efficiency in administration a...
- War Powers Resolution of 1973
- A measure passed by Congress designed to limit presidential deployment of troops unless Congres...
- Stephen Skowronek argues ...
- that presidential power comes from historical context including the public political commitment...
- 4 types of federal organizations
- departments, independent agencies, independent regulatory commissions and gov corporations
- Iron triangle
- tight relationships between gov. agencies, all of whom share share an interest in policy issues...
- Civil service system
- A gov. system employment system under which employees are hired and promoted based on qualifica...
- Patronage system
- A system that rewards the supporters of successful political candidates and parties with gov. j...
- Case Precedent
- A legal rule established by a judicial decision that guides subsequent decisions.
- Richard Neustadt argues ...
- that presidential power comes from the ability of the President to persuade through bargaining.
- New institutionalism
- An approach to understanding judicial decision making that emphasizes the importance of courts'...
- Strategic vote model
- A theory that supreme court justices vote in order to advance their preferred goals, even if it...
- inquisitorial legal system
- Legal system in most of Europe in which a judge takes an active role in questioning witnesses a...
- Adversarial system
- Legal system used by the US in which a judge plays a relatively passive role as attorneys battl...
- Hamilton favored ...
- federal judges getting life time appointments so that they could be free to say what the law is...
- Hamilton thought ....
- if judges exercised will instead of judgment they would be substituting themselves for the legi...
- Dissenting opinion
- apellate court opinions explaining the views of one or more judges who disagree with the outcom...
- Concurring opinion
- Apellate court opinion by judge who endorses the outcome decided by the majority of judges, but...
- Majority Opinion
- Apellate court opinions that explains the reasons for the case outcome as determined by a major...
- Schechter Poultry v. US (1935) and Chevron USA v. NRDC (1984)
- the Supreme Court cases about Congress delegating the authority to make regulation to the burea...

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