Review Sheet for Mid‐Term Exam American State & Local Government Fall 2013 Political Science (POS) 2112 Dr. Smith For the multiple choice questions, you should be familiar with each of the following terms/concepts: Ad‐Hoc Federalism Layer‐cake model of federalism Legislative referendums Alexander Hamilton’s Federalist #17 Lobbying & Lobbyists Articles of Confederation Marble‐cake model of federalism Bill of Rights McCulloch v. Maryland (1819) Block Grants Mobilization of bias Brown v. Board of Education (1954) Necessary and Proper Clause Categorical Grants New Deal Era Federalism (Franklin D. Roosevelt) Closed & Open Primaries New Federalism Coercive Federalism No Child Left Behind Act Commerce Clause Office‐Block Ballot Comparative Method Participation Bias Confederal System of Government Partisan Identification Cooperative Federalism Party Caucus Desynchronized Elections Party Column Ballot Direct Democracy Party Fusion Disturbance Theory Party Organization Dual Federalism Party‐in‐Government Educative Effects of Ballot Initiatives Party‐in‐the‐Electorate Expansion & Barriers to Voting Pluralism Federal Aid to State & Local governments Political Culture (M, I, T) Federalist system of government Popular referendums Felon Disenfranchisement Privileged Position of Business Florida’s Relationship with Federal Government Recall Florida’s House Bill 1355 Fly‐paper federalism Reserve Clause Responsible party government Functional & Ideological parties Great Society Era (Lyndon Johnson) Tensions & Ambiguities in American Federalism Incorporation of the Bill of Rights Theory of Nullification Initiatives Timmons v. Twin Cities Area New Party (1997) Interest groups & Interest group power Top‐Two Blanket primary Unitary system of government James Madison’s Federalist #45 Voter turnout: VEP vs. VAP Jim Crow Laws Voting Rights Act (1965) Laboratories of Democracy