POS 2041- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 29 pages long!)

• School: University of Florida
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POS 2041
• Professor: Beth Ann Rosenson

Document Summary

Upper class elite pills strings of government: hyperpluralism: too many groups out there for an effective government. So many levels of government and veto points at which groups can use the political system to their advantage. Public interest loses out: challenges to democracy. Federalism: unitary: all power concentrated in central gov, confederation: power decentralized. National gov highly constrained: hybrid: mix of both, how are powers divided, enumerated powers: explicitly said. Implied powers: implied through enumerated powers. (i. e. to set a minimum wage as they have enumerated power to regular commerce) Inherent powers: founding fathers knew they could not think of everything, created. Controversial because fed did(cid:374)"t fu(cid:374)d states, a(cid:374)d states had to cut other progra(cid:373)s), a(cid:373)erica(cid:374)s with. Who doesn"t: age, wealth, education, race, status of your party in district/state, other participation, donate $ to campaign (older voters more likely, volunteer for campaign, attend political rally (younger voters more likely, contact a public official (older)