5 Written Questions

1. An informal understanding among fellow employees of an agency as to how they are supposed to act
2. A close relationship between an agency, congressional committee, and an interest group that works to everyone's advantage
3. A request made by congressional committees to review certain agency decisions
4. Requirements imposed on states
5. Federal funds provided to states and localities

5 Matching Questions

1. Open Primary
2. Blanket Primary
3. Creative Federalism
4. PIRGs
5. Regulatory Federalism

1. a A primary that permits voters to chose ob election day the party primary in which they wish to vote
2. b A primary that permits all voters, regardless of party, to choose candidates of both parties
3. c Joint planning and decision making among all levels of government; the state has a greater reliance on federally-funded programs such as Medicare and Medicaid; associated with LBJ
4. d The national government imposes requirements on states and localities, for ex: environmental and civil rights requirements
5. e Organizations first organized by Ralph Nader that gather information on consumer topics

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. A list, compiled by an environmental interest group, of those legislators who voted most frequently against its measures
   1. Pluralist Theory
   2. "Revolving Door"
   3. "Dirty Dozen"
   4. Elitist Theory
2. The pattern of spending, taxing, and providing grants in the federal system
   1. Creative Federalism
   2. Regulatory Federalism
   3. Fiscal Federalism
   4. Cooperative Federalism
3. Congressional districts having different populations
   1. Categorical
   2. Party Whip
   3. Malapportionment
   4. Mandates
4. Its application restricted to lobbying efforts involving direct contacts with members of Congress
   1. Regulatory Federalism
   2. Malapportionment
   3. Federal Regulation Lobbying Act of 1946
   4. Annual authorization
5. The difference between the number of votes candidates get when they are first elected and the number of votes they get when they run for reelection
   1. Sophomore Surge
   2. Schedule C job
   3. Open Primary
   4. Authorization

5 True/False Question

1. Cooperative Federalism → Joint planning and decision making among all levels of government; the state has a greater reliance on federally-funded programs such as Medicare and Medicaid; associated with LBJ
   

   True        False

2. Elitist Theory → Believes that competing interest groups are healthy: give people a connection to govt. and they balance each other
   

   True        False

3. Restrictive → A bureaucratic pathology in which agencies tend to grow without regard to the benefits their programs confer or the costs they entail
   

   True        False

4. Hyperpluralist Theory → Believes that interest groups are way out of control; the more groups that exist the more they'll influence some govt. agency
   

   True        False

5. New or Competitive Federalism → The transfer of responsibility from the national government to the state government with certain restrictions if a state does not meet the criteria of a specific requirement; associated with Nixon and Reagan
   

   True        False