Pols1336 Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Lecture 2 notes for the class lecture. It continues talking about why the legitimacy is in question and shows the most recent census results. It begins to talk about the differences between parties.

Hello the Political Science Final Exam is this week this file is a study guide outlining the main topics that we have covered this semester. As long as you look over these notes you should be in pretty good shape for the final. This file covers the main topics which the teacher said would be on the final exam. If you review and memorize everything on this study guide you should get a very high score on the final exam.

Interest groups and the different types (economic, ideological/issue-oriented groups, and foreign policy and international groups). What interest groups do and how they do it (lobbying, informing, etc.)

United States and Texas Constitution/Politics. These notes are of the lectures held by Sarah Mallams at the University of Houston. You will find information regarding the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the Declaration of Independence, important Supreme Court cases from history, etc. Information about the American political ideologies and their evolution throughout history is noted as well. Civil liberties and voting are in these notes too!

Voting: The Constitution, participation, the history of voting, women's suffrage, African American suffrage, the Civil Rights movement, the Latino vote, the vote for 18-year-olds). The Constitutional Amendments pertaining to voting (15, 17, 19, 23, 24, and 16). The demographics of who votes, why, and turnout. Voting laws and regulations (the National Voter Registration Act, Motor Voter law).

The different types of public opinion polls and what drives public opinion (social and political environment, generational effects, and self-interest). The difference in ideology and groups (age, religion, socioeconomic status, gender, race/ethnicity, and education). Congressional scandal and effects on the electorate.

Interest groups and their characteristics (leadership, membership, finances, influence) and tactics (lobbying the legislature, influencing the executive branch, targeting the courts, shaping the political environment). Texas and the balance of political power.

The Constitution requirements for elections (electoral college, senate elections, house elections, primary elections, and presidential elections). The presidential campaign and their issues (fundraising, super PACs, swing states, microtargeting, valence issues, position issues, wedge issues). Congressional campaigns and their issues (fundraising, roles, etc.).

Political news in mass media throughout the history of America (seditious libel, Common Sense, the Federalist Papers, yellow journalism, muckraking, and the televising of presidential campaigns). Mass media in the Twenty-First century (infotainment, blogs, social networks). The minimal effects model (selective exposure), the not-so-minimal effects model (priming and framing), and the propaganda model.

The Constitutional Convention: large states versus small states (Virginia plan and New Jersey plan and Connecticut compromise), north versus south, and what the federalists and antifederalists stood for regarding the ratification of the Constitution.