AP Politics Unit 4 Study Guide

1. Center policymaking institution.

2. Franking
3. Congress Characteristics
4. Incumbent characteristics
5. Coattails
6. Pork
7. Reapportionment
8. Party influence in voting behavior
9. PACs influence in Congress.
10. How a bill becomes a law.
11. Power of the purse.
12. Impeachment logistics.
13. Trustee, Delegate, Politico
14. Neustadt and presidential power.
15. Presidential requirements
16. Great Society
17. 22nd Amendment
18. Presidential succession (top 5)
19. Presidential Power
20. President’s cabinet
21. Veto and overturning one
22. Pocket veto
23. President’s constitutional powers
24. News coverage of Presidents
25. G’vt bureaucracies vs. Private bureaucracies
26. Largest federal civilian workforce department.
27. Patronage system
28. Pendleton Act
29. Criticism of federal Civil Service
30. Plum book
31. Weber view of bureaucracies
32. Independent regulatory agencies
33. Street-level bureaucrat
34. Voting Rights Act of 1965
35. Iron Triangle
36. Majority of American judicial business
37. Litigants
38. Class action lawsuit
39. Appellate jurisdiction
40. U.S. Court of Appeals
41. Majority of cases heard by Supreme Court
42. Senate’s role in selecting judges
43. Sandra Day O’Connor
44. Thurgood Marshall
45. Writ of Certiorari
46. Amicus Curiae
Over
 Unit 4 Free Response Prompt

1. Federal bureaucratic agencies execute federal law…Reason Congress gives this to

them…EPA, FCC and Federal Reserve Board (know what they do)…ways
Congress ensures legislative intent with these groups.

2. Specialization, Reciprocity/logrolling and Party representation on committees…

the role of party leadership in Congress (influences)

3. Incumbents (anything and everything)