Subject:
Arts and Humanities
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
Rice University
Provider Set:
Openstax College
Tags:
  • <emphasis Effect="italics">laissez-faire</emphasis>
  • Acquisitive Model
  • Affirmative Action
  • Agenda Setting
  • Agent of Socialization
  • Amendatory Veto
  • Amendment
  • American Indian Movement (AIM)
  • Amicus Curiae
  • Anti-Federalists
  • Appellate Courts
  • Appellate Jurisdiction
  • Apportionment
  • Articles of Confederation
  • Associate Justice
  • Association
  • Astroturf Movement
  • Balance of Power
  • Balance of Trade
  • Ballot Fatigue
  • Bandwagon Effect
  • Beat
  • Bicameral Legislature
  • Bicameralism
  • Bill
  • Bill of Attainder
  • Bill of Rights
  • Bipartisanship
  • Black Codes
  • Block Grant
  • Blue Law
  • Bottom-up Implementation
  • Bradley Effect
  • Brief
  • Brown v. Board of Education
  • Budget Policy
  • Bully Pulpit
  • Bureaucracy
  • Bureaucrats
  • Cabinet
  • Campaign
  • Campaign Funding
  • Categorical Grant
  • Caucus
  • Centralization
  • Charter
  • Checks and Balances
  • Chief Justice
  • Chronic Minority
  • Circuit Courts
  • Citizen Journalism
  • Citizens United
  • Civic Engagement
  • Civil Disobedience
  • Civil Law
  • Civil Liberties
  • Civil Rights
  • Civil Servants
  • Civil Service
  • Civil Service Commission
  • Classical Liberalism
  • Closed Primary
  • Cloture
  • Coattail Effect
  • Cold War
  • Collective Good
  • Collective Representation
  • Commission System
  • Common Goods
  • Common Law
  • Common-law Right
  • Communism
  • Comparable Worth
  • Concurrent Powers
  • Concurring Opinion
  • Confederation
  • Conference
  • Conference Committee
  • Congress
  • Congressional Budget Office
  • Congressional Election
  • Congressional Executive Agreement
  • Conscientious Objector
  • Consecutive Term Limits
  • Constituency
  • Constitution
  • Containment
  • Contract Lobbyist
  • Cooperative Federalism
  • Council-administrator
  • Council-elected Executive
  • Council-manager System
  • Courts of Appeals
  • Covert Content
  • Coverture
  • Creeping Categorization
  • Criminal Law
  • Critical Election
  • Cultivation Theory
  • De Facto Segregation
  • De Jure Segregation
  • Debt
  • Declaration of Independence
  • Deficit
  • Delegate Legislator
  • Delegate Model of Representation
  • Delegates
  • Democracy
  • Descriptive Representation
  • Devolution
  • Diffuse Support
  • Digital Paywall
  • Dillon’s Rule
  • Diplomacy
  • Direct Action
  • Direct Democracy
  • Discretionary Spending
  • Disenfranchisement
  • Dissenting Opinion
  • Distributive Policy
  • District Courts
  • District System
  • Disturbance Theory
  • Divided Government
  • Docket
  • Domestic Policy
  • Double Jeopardy
  • Dual Court System
  • Dual Federalism
  • Due Process Clause
  • Early Voting
  • Economic Liberty
  • Efficacy
  • Elastic Clause
  • Election
  • Electoral College
  • Elite Critique
  • Elite Theory
  • Eminent Domain
  • Entitlement
  • Enumerated Powers
  • Equal Protection Clause
  • Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)
  • Equal-time Rule
  • Equality
  • Establishment Clause
  • Ex Post Facto Law
  • Excise Tax Keynesian Economics
  • Exclusionary Rule
  • Executive Agreement
  • Executive Office of the President
  • Executive Order
  • Executive Privilege
  • Exit Poll
  • Expressed Powers
  • Fairness Doctrine
  • Fascism
  • Favorability Polls
  • Federal System
  • Federalism
  • Federalists
  • Fifteenth Amendment
  • Filibuster
  • First Lady
  • First-past-the-post
  • Foreign Policy
  • Foreign Policymaking
  • Formal Powers
  • Fourteenth Amendment
  • Fragmentation
  • Framing
  • Free Exercise Clause
  • Free Trade
  • Free-market Economics
  • Free-rider Problem
  • Freedom of Information Act
  • Full Faith and Credit Clause
  • General Revenue Sharing
  • Gerrymandering
  • Glass Ceiling
  • Going Public
  • Government
  • Government Corporation
  • Grandfather Clause
  • Grassroots Movement
  • Great Compromise
  • Hard Power
  • Home Rule
  • Horserace Coverage
  • House
  • Hypodermic Theory
  • Ideology
  • Immigration Federalism
  • Impeachment
  • Implied Powers
  • In-house Lobbyist
  • Incumbency
  • Incumbency Advantage
  • Incumbent
  • Indecency Regulation
  • Individualistic Political Culture
  • Inherent Powers
  • Initiative
  • Inside Lobbying
  • Intense Preferences
  • Interest Groups
  • Intermediate Scrutiny
  • Iron Triangle
  • Isolationism
  • Issue Network
  • Jim Crow Laws
  • Joint Committee
  • Journalism
  • Judicial Activism
  • Judicial Restraint
  • Judicial Review
  • Judiciary Branch
  • King Caucus
  • Latent Preferences
  • Leading Questions
  • Legislative Liaison
  • Libel
  • Liberal Internationalism
  • Libertarianism
  • Lifetime Ban
  • Line-item Veto
  • Literacy Tests
  • Lobbying
  • Lobbyist
  • Local Government
  • Majoritarian Voting
  • Majority Leader
  • Majority Opinion
  • Majority Party
  • Majority Rule
  • Mandatory Spending
  • Marbury v. Madison
  • Margin of Error
  • Markup
  • Mass Media
  • Material Incentives
  • Mayor-council System
  • Media
  • Medicaid
  • Medicare
  • Membership Organization
  • Merit System
  • Merit-based Civil Service
  • Midterm Elections
  • Minimal Effects Theory
  • Minority Leader
  • Minority Party
  • Minority Rights
  • Miranda Warning
  • Moderate
  • Modern Conservatism
  • Modern Liberalism
  • Monarchy
  • Monopolistic Model
  • Moralistic Political Culture
  • Muckraking
  • Natural Rights
  • Negotiated Rulemaking
  • Neo-conservatism
  • Neo-isolationism
  • Neopluralists
  • New Federalism
  • New Jersey Plan
  • Nineteenth Amendment
  • North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
  • Nullification
  • Obscenity
  • Office of Management and Budget
  • Oligarchy
  • Open Primary
  • Oral Argument
  • Original Jurisdiction
  • Outside Lobbying
  • Oversight
  • Overt Content
  • Pardon
  • Particularized Benefit
  • Partisanship
  • Party Identifiers
  • Party Organization
  • Party Platform
  • Party Polarization
  • Party Press Area
  • Party Realignment
  • Party-in-government
  • Party-in-the-electorate
  • Pay Schedule
  • Personal Politics
  • Platform
  • Plea Bargain
  • Plessy v. Ferguson
  • Pluralist Theory
  • Pluralists
  • Plurality Voting
  • Polarization
  • Policy Advocates
  • Policy Analysts
  • Political Action Committee
  • Political Machine
  • Political Parties
  • Political Patronage
  • Political Power
  • Political Socialization
  • Politico Model of Representation
  • Politics
  • Poll
  • Poll Tax
  • Pork-barrel Politics
  • Precedent
  • Precinct
  • Presidency
  • President
  • President <emphasis Effect="italics">pro
  • Presidential Election
  • Priming
  • Prior Restraint
  • Private Goods
  • Privatization
  • Privileges and Immunities Clause
  • Probable Cause
  • Progressive Tax
  • Proportional Representation
  • Protectionism
  • Public Administration
  • Public Goods
  • Public Interest Group
  • Public Opinion
  • Public Policy
  • Public Relations
  • Purposive Incentives
  • Push Poll
  • Race-to-the-bottom
  • Rally Around the Flag Effect
  • Random Sample
  • Rational Basis Test
  • Reappointment
  • Recall
  • Recession
  • Reconstruction
  • Red Tape
  • Redistributive Policy
  • Redistricting
  • Reduction Veto
  • Referendum
  • Regressive Tax
  • Regulatory Policy
  • Reporter’s Privilege
  • Representation
  • Representative Democracy
  • Representative Sample
  • Republic
  • Reserved Powers
  • Residency Requirement
  • Revolving Door Laws
  • Right to Privacy
  • Rule of Four
  • Safe Seat
  • Safety Net
  • Search Warrant
  • Select Committee
  • Selective Engagement
  • Selective Incorporation
  • Self-incrimination
  • Senate
  • Senatorial Courtesy
  • Separation of Powers
  • Shadow Campaign
  • Sherbert Test
  • Signing Statement
  • Slander
  • Social Capital
  • Social Contract
  • Social Security
  • Socialism
  • Soft Money
  • Soft News
  • Soft Power
  • Sole Executive Agreement
  • Solicitor General
  • Solidary Incentives
  • Sorting
  • Speaker of the House
  • Spoils System
  • Standing Committee
  • Stare Decisis
  • State Government
  • Straight-ticket Voting
  • Straw Poll
  • Strict Scrutiny
  • Sunshine Laws
  • Super PAC
  • Supply-side Economics
  • Supremacy Clause
  • Supreme Court
  • Surge-and-decline Theory
  • Survey
  • Symbolic Speech
  • Tax Policy
  • Tempore</emphasis>
  • Term Limits
  • The Federalist Papers
  • Theory of Delegate Representation
  • Third Parties
  • Thirteenth Amendment
  • Three-Fifths Compromise
  • Title IX
  • Toll Goods
  • Top-down Implementation
  • Top-two Primary
  • Totalitarianism
  • Traditional Conservativism
  • Traditionalistic Political Culture
  • Trail of Tears
  • Treaty
  • Trial Court
  • Trustee
  • Trustee Model of Representation
  • Two Presidencies Thesis
  • Two-party System
  • U.S. Constitution
  • Understanding Text
  • Undue Burden Test
  • Unfunded Mandates
  • Unicameral Legislature
  • Unitary System
  • United Nations (UN)
  • Venue Shopping
  • Veto
  • Virginia Plan
  • Voter Fatigue
  • Voter Registration
  • Voter Turnout
  • Voting
  • Voting Cues
  • Voting-age Population
  • Weberian Model
  • Whip
  • Whistleblower
  • White Primary
  • Winner-take-all
  • Writ of Certiorari
  • Writ of Habeas Corpus
  • Yellow Journalism
  • License:
    Creative Commons Attribution
    Language:
    English

    Education Standards

    American Government

    Unit 2
    Students and the System
    Unit 3
    Individual Agency and Action
    Unit 4
    Toward Collective Action: Mediating Institutions
    Unit 5
    Delivering Collective Action: Formal Institutions
    Unit 6
    The Outputs of Government