APGOV
Rosen
AP MULTIPLE CHOICE CONCEPTS 1994 - 2012
1) 14th Amendment
2) Amending the Constitution
3) American with Disabilities Act
4) Amicus curiae briefs
5) Articles of Confederation vs. Constitution
6) Block grants and federalism
7) Brown vs. Board of Education
8) Candidate centered campaigns
9) Categorical grants in aid
10) Chart/graph reading and interpretation
11) Checks & balances.
12) Citizens United v. FEC
13) Civil Rights Act of 1964
14) Civil rights of the 1950s
15) Clear and present danger
16) Cloture motion (Senate)
17) Commerce clause
18) Committee chair power
19) Common criteria when voting for presidential candidates
20) Common political activities of citizens
21) Conference committee
22) Congressional Committee system
23) Congressional Incumbency advantage
24) congressional oversight (example)
25) Congressional oversight of bureaucracy
26) Congressional power
27) Congressional response to Supreme Court ruling.
28) Congressional standing committees
29) Constituent service communication
30) Constitution-govt. authority divided across political institutions
31) Cooperative federalism
32) Core value of US political culture
33) Creating new federal courts
34) Critical elections
35) Death penalty rulings
36) Delegates to major party conventions
37) Demographics of delegates to presidential nomination conventions.
38) Demographics of Democratic voters
39) Devolution
40) Difference between political parties and interest groups
41) Differences between House and Senate
42) Direct primaries vs. convention system
43) Discretionary vs. mandatory spending
44) District court vs. appellate court
45) Divided government consequences – confirmation delays
46) Divided party control of presidency & congress
47) Doctrine of original intent
48) Drawing congressional districts
49) Electoral behavior in the US
50) Electoral college
51) Elite & pluralist theories of politics
52) Entitlement spending
53) Establishment clause
54) Exclusionary rule
55) Executive agreement
56) Federal Budget entitlements (entitlement spending)
57) Federal election laws
58) Federal govt does not regulate negative advertising
59) Federal Grants-in-Aid
60) Federal judge nominees
61) Federal judges
62) Federal system of government
63) Federalism
64) Federalist No. 10
65) First Amendment
66) Fiscal federalism & cooperative federalism
67) Foreign policy deference
68) Fourteenth Amendment
69) Framer’s creation of legislative branch
70) Framer’s view of primary functions of government.
71) Framer's intent of economic powers
72) Franking privilege
73) Free exercise clause
74) Free Speech & assembly
75) Freedom of Information Act
76) Gerrymandering
77) Griswold v. Connecticut & Roe v. Wade
78) Gitlow v. NY & NY Times v. Sullivan
79) Group voting tendencies
80) Horse-race journalism
81) House & Senate differences in legislative process
82) House of Representatives elections
83) How do lobbyists try to influence legislators?
84) Impeachment process
85) Incorporation doctrine (selective incorporation)
86) Incumbency reelection rate
87) Independent regulatory agencies & separation of powers.
88) Individual senators have great influence over legislative process
89) Influence of news media on public opinion
90) Influence on voters in presidential election
91) Influences on Republican Party Platform
92) Interest group activities
93) Interest group coalition building
94) Interest groups & political party roles.
95) Interest groups greatest influence
96) Iron triangles
97) Judicial restraint
98) Judicial Review – Marbury v. Madison
99) Lasting influence of Supreme Court appointments
100) Latino vote
101) Leading predictor of how people vote
102) Legislative branch & Executive Branch checks and balances
103) Legislative oversight
104) Legislative process
105) Legislative veto
106) Liberals & conservatives
107) Line item veto
108) Main debate between Federalists & Anti-Federalists
109) Main reason for two major political parties in US
110) Make-up of Congress (race, gender)
111) McCulloch v. Maryland
112) Media political coverage of presidential campaigns
113) Miranda v. Arizona
114) Motor Voter law
115) News media ownership concentration
116) Office of Management & Budget
117) Open vs. closed primary
118) PACs
119) Partisanship & voting
120) Party identification & voting behavior
121) Persistence of two-party system
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Plessy v. Ferguson
Plurality election
Plurality vote results in presidential elections
Pocket veto
Political Action Committees (PACs)
Political efficacy
Political factions (Federalist Papers)
Political parties - voter identification
Political parties not in Constitution
Political socialization
Pork barrel legislation
Power of federal bureaucracy
Power of the federal courts
President impounding funds
Presidential approval ratings
Presidential cabinet
Presidential influence of Congress
Presidential influence on federal judiciary
Presidential nominating process
Presidential powers
Presidential roles authorized by the Constitution
Presidential use of inherent powers
Presidential Veto
Primary elections
Primary formal role of the attorney general
Protection of legal rights for women
Public financing of elections
Reasons for low voter turnout
Reserved powers of state governments
Results of appealing case to Supreme Court
Revenue bill originate in which body?
Rise of interest groups
Roe v. Wade
Rule & Procedures of House & Senate
Rule of Four
Rules Committee
Selecting a vice-president
Selection of Supreme Court caseload
Selective incorporation (incorporation doctrine)
Senate confirmation process
Separation of church and state
Shay's Rebellion
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Single-member plurality districts
Speaker of the House
Split ticket
Stare decisis
Supreme Court Caseload
Supreme Court interpretation of free speech
Supreme Court Justice tenure
Supreme Court justices background
Supreme Court nomination process
Targets of lobbying
Tenth Amendment
Trends in Presidential Elections in the 1980s
Trust in government over time
Two major political party organization
Uncontrollable spending in federal budget
Unfunded mandates
Use of executive orders
Voter demographics in presidential primary elections
Voter turnout rate
Voting behavior
Voting by 18-21 year olds
Voting eligibility decided by states
Voting patterns
Voting Rights Act of 1965
War Powers Resolution
Warren Court
Ways and Means Committee
What happens if no candidate earns majority of Electoral College vote?
White House staff
Who do voters directly elect?
Writs of certiorari