POLI 201 Study Guide
Module 1:
Introducing Political Science
1. Delegate vs Trustee
2. History Principle
3. Institution – Exogenous and Endogenous
4. Moral Hazard
5. Principal-Agent Relationship
6. Public Goods
7. Instrumental Action
8. Collective Action
9. Free Riders
The Constitutional System
1. Bicameralism
2. Articles of confederation
3. Expressed Powers
4. Great Compromise – including all Plans
5. Implied Powers
6. Impeachment
7. Reserved Powers
8. Separation of powers vs Checks and Balances
9. Supremacy Clause
10. The Electoral College
11. Transaction Costs
12. Elastic Clause (Necessary and Proper Clause)
13. Shared Powers
14. 3/5ths Compromise
15. Declaration of Independence
16. The Constitution
Module 2: Policy
Civil Liberties
1. Barron v Baltimore
2. Bill of Rights (All of them)
3. Civil Rights vs Civil Liberties
4. Citizens’ United
5. Dual Citizenship
6. Establishment Clause
7. First Amendment
8. Fourteenth Amendment
9. Free Exercise Clause
10. Free Speech
11. Griswold v Connecticut
12. Lemon Test
13. Police Powers
14. Prior Restraint
15. Right to Privacy
16. Selective Incorporation
17. Strict Scrutiny
Civil Rights
1. 15th Amendment
2. 19th Amendment
3. Civil Rights vs Civil Liberties
4. Cognitive Liberation
5. Collective Action
6. Declaration of Sentiments
7. Desegregation/Segregation (de Facto, de Jure)
8. Information Benefits
9. Jim Crow
10. Plessy v Ferguson
11. Political Process Model
12. Purposive Benefits
13. Selective Benefits
14. Separate but Equal and Brown v Board of Education
15. Solidary Benefits
16. Suffrage and the right to Vote
Module 3: National Elected Institutions
Presidency
1. Appointment Power
2. Crafted Talk
3. Executive Agreement
4. Executive Privilege
5. Expressed vs Delegated vs Inherent Presidential Powers
6. Impeachment
7. Pardon Power
8. Signing Statements
9. The Bully Pulpit and Going Public
10. Unity, Duration, Competent Powers, Pay
11. Veto Power
12. Delegate vs Trustee
Congress
1. Agenda Power
2. Appropriations Bills
3. Arrow’s Impossibility Theorem
4. Cartel Model
5. Closed vs Open Rules
6. Commerce Clause
7. Congress as an Institution (Speaker, Majority leader, etc.)
8. Congressional Committee Systems
9. Constituencies
10. Distributive Tendency and Logrolling
11. Elastic Clause
12. Filibuster
13. Gatekeeping Authority
14. Incumbency bias
15. Negative Agenda Power
16. Nuclear option in the Senate
17. Pork-barrel politics and Patronage
18. Positive Agenda Power
19. Ratification and Confirmation in the Senate
20. Reapportionment and Redistricting
21. Rules Committee vs the Speaker of the House
22. Senatorial Courtesy
Polarization
1. Ideology – DW-NOMINATE, Ideological, Competitive
2. Party competition
3. Polarization
Module 4: Policy Implementing Institutions
Federalism
1. Ambition
2. Anti-Federalists
3. Creative Federalism
4. Commerce Clause
5. Devolution
6. Divided government
7. Dual vs Cooperative Federalism
8. Executive Privilege
9. Faction
10. Federalists, and Federalist Papers
11. Gibbons v Ogden
12. Grants-in-aid vs Categorical grants vs project grants vs formula grants
13. McCulloch v Maryland
14. Necessary and Proper Clause
15. New Federalism
16. Nullification
17. Police Powers
18. State sovereignty
19. Unfunded Mandates
Executive Offices
1. Administrative Adjudication
2. Article II, Constitution
3. Bureaucracy
4. Bureaucratic Drift vs Coalition Drift
5. Bureaucratic reputation
6. Clientele Agencies
7. Congressional Oversight (Police v Fire)
8. Executive Rule Making
9. FDA Approval
10. Iron Triangle
11. Material Benefits
12. Moral Hazard
13. Path Dependence
14. Policy triangles
15. Principal-Agent Problem
16. Revolving Door
17. Transaction costs
Judiciary
1. Amicus Curiae
2. Article III, Constitution
3. Concurring vs Dissenting opinions
4. Criminal law, Civil law, public law
5. Docket, Case Selection
6. Judicial elections
7. Judicial Restraint vs Activism
8. Judicial Review
9. Judicial Selection (State and Federal)
10. Jurisdiction, Original vs Appellate
11. Marbury v Madison
12. Mootness
13. Ripeness
14. Stare Decisis
15. State courts
16. Standing, Judicial
17. Writ of Certiorari
Module 5: Public Opinion Formation and Identity
Elections
1. Adverse selection
2. Moral Hazard
3. Australian Ballot
4. Single-member districts
5. Electoral College
6. Majority Rule
7. Plurality Rule
8. Referendum, Initiative, and Recall
9. Partisan Identity
10. Michigan Voting Model
11. Retrospective Voting
12. Prospective Voting
13. Issue Voting
14. Spatial Voting Model
15. Valence Issues
16. Gerrymandering
17. Fifteenth Amendment
18. Nineteenth Amendment
19. Baker v. Carr
20. Priming
21. Framing
22. Salience
23. Racial Priming Theory
24. Calculus of Voting
Public Opinion
1. Zaller’s RAS model
2. Sampling Error
3. Selection Bias
4. Socialization
5. Condorcet’s Theorem
6. Inconsistent opinion
7. Aggregate opinion
8. Measurement error
Parties
1. Duverger’s Law
2. Parties as institutions in government
3. Parties as electoral organizations
4. Parties as citizen identities
5. Bargaining
6. Arrow’s Impossibility Theorem
7. Broad and Narrow Coalitions
8. Heuristic
9. Responsible Party Government
10. Nomination by primary, caucus, convention
11. Open v Closed primaries
Media
1. News Deserts
2. Equal time rule
3. Prior restraint
4. Right of Rebuttal
5. NY Times v Sullivan
6. Near v. Minnesota
7. Media selection
8. Decline of newspapers
9. Yellow Journalism
10. Reality Check News Dynamic
11. Propaganda Feedback loop