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Bell Ringer 10-22-2007

Bell Ringer 10-22-2007. How does the federal government spend money for purposes that are not authorized by the Constitution? Identify the four reasons that federal money seems so attractive to state officials. 60-62. Bell Ringer 10-23-2007.

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Bell Ringer 10-22-2007

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  1. Bell Ringer 10-22-2007 • How does the federal government spend money for purposes that are not authorized by the Constitution? • Identify the four reasons that federal money seems so attractive to state officials. • 60-62

  2. Bell Ringer 10-23-2007 • What is the difference between revenue sharing and categorical grants? • Pages 63 through top of 65

  3. October 25, 2007 • What is the difference between a conditions of aid and mandate? • Page 66

  4. Bell Ringer 11-5-2007 • According to Alexis de Tocqueville, why did a democratic republic take root in the United States but not in other countries that copied the US Constitution? • Page 76

  5. Bell Ringer 11-6-2007 • List the contributions to U.S. political culture made by the Revolution, by the nation’s religious heritages, and by the family. • Page 84 (The Sources of Political Culture) to page 86 (The Culture War)

  6. Bell Ringer 11-8-2007 • What is class consciousness? • What is the difference between being orthodox or progressive? • What are the two major changes in American society? • Pages 86(culture war) to page 87 (Mistrust of Government)

  7. Bell Ringer 11-9-2007 • Explain what is meant by “equality of opportunity” but not “equality of results.” • Page 79 (Economic System)

  8. Bell Ringer 11-13-2007 • List the three questions that are raised about our political culture. • When listing the second question discuss what Gunnar Mydral says bout this question. • Start Page 77 (The Political System) and stop at page 79 (The economic system)

  9. Bell Ringer 11-14-2007 • When it comes to policy attitudes about the Economic System, how do Donald Kinder and David Sears differ from Paul M. Sniderman and Michael Gray Hagen? • What is the Individualist View? • Read the Economic System Pages 80-81

  10. Bell Ringer 11-19-2007 • What role did the Framers o f the Constitution think public opinion should play in American democracy? • Pages 155-156

  11. Bell Ringer 11-26-2007 • What is opinion saliency? • What is opinion stability? • What is opinion-policy congruence? • Page 157

  12. Bell Ringer 11-28-2007 • What is political ideology? • What are the two ways political scientists measure the extent to which people have a political ideology? • Page 167

  13. Bell Ringer 11-29-2007 • What are the political ideologies of Latin Americans (Cubans, Mexicans, Puerto Ricans) • What are the political ideologies of Asia Americans (Japanese, Koreans)? • Pages 164-167

  14. Bell Ringer 11-30-2007 • What was the meaning of a liberal and a conservative before Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal? • Beginning around the Time of Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal how did the meaning of liberal and conservative change? • Read 167-171 stop at political elites

  15. Bell Ringer 12-3-2007 • Explain how information and peers are two reasons how citizens display ideological consistency on the conventional liberal-conservative spectrum • (pages171-172)

  16. December 11, 2007 • Identify and explain three examples of how increasing federal control over registration and election rules has led to the enfranchisement of more groups of voters. • Pages 181-183

  17. December 12, 2007 • Identify and explain the two broad categories (Real Decline & Apparent Decline) of explanations for why U.S. election turnout in the 20th Century has been very low. Provide the view of the text on this question as well • Pages 184-187

  18. BELL RINGER 12-13-2007 • Explain the difference between VAP and VEP measures and summarize what we know about voter turnout when we view it from these two perspectives. • Pages 186-187

  19. December 13, 2007 • Discuss the causes of political participation. What factors are correlated with political participation? • Education, Race And Ethnicity, Religion, Age, Class • 188-191

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