PLS 200 Study Guide - Aspirin
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Inquisitorial system-in a civil law system, a prolonged pretrial investigative process. Iron triangle-the situation where the bureaucracy is captured and redirected to focus on the needs of an interest group rather than on the public interest or even its original mandate. Judicial review-the power to declare laws and gov. acts to be in violation of the nations constitution or in some other way illegal under the structure of the country. Law in action-how laws are applied and enforced in the real world. Law in books-the laws as they are written. Median voter-the one voter in the center of the ideological spectrum. Mediated reality-reality that comes to us through channels of info flow, primarily through the news media, and our of how info is selected, sorted, and presented to us through the news media.
