1. Bell Ringer
How does the federal government spend money for purposes that are not authorized by the Constitution?
Identify the four reasons that federal money seems so attractive to state officials.
60-62

2. Bell Ringer
What is the difference between revenue sharing and categorical grants?
Pages 63 through top of 65

3. What is the difference between a conditions of aid and mandate?
October 25, 2007
What is the difference between a conditions of aid and mandate?
Page 66

4. Bell Ringer
According to Alexis de Tocqueville, why did a democratic republic take root in the United States but not in other countries that copied the US Constitution?
Page 76

5. Bell Ringer
List the contributions to U.S. political culture made by the Revolution, by the nation’s religious heritages, and by the family.
Page 84 (The Sources of Political Culture) to page 86 (The Culture War)

6. Bell Ringer 11-8-2007 What is class consciousness?
What is the difference between being orthodox or progressive?
What are the two major changes in American society?
Pages 86(culture war) to page 87 (Mistrust of Government)

7. Page 79 (Economic System)
Bell Ringer
Explain what is meant by “equality of opportunity” but not “equality of results.”
Page 79 (Economic System)

8. Bell Ringer
List the three questions that are raised about our political culture.
When listing the second question discuss what Gunnar Mydral says bout this question.
Start Page 77 (The Political System) and stop at page 79 (The economic system)

9. Bell Ringer
When it comes to policy attitudes about the Economic System, how do Donald Kinder and David Sears differ from Paul M. Sniderman and Michael Gray Hagen?
What is the Individualist View?
Read the Economic System Pages 80-81

10. Bell Ringer
What role did the Framers o f the Constitution think public opinion should play in American democracy?
Pages

11. What is opinion saliency? What is opinion stability?
Bell Ringer
What is opinion saliency?
What is opinion stability?
What is opinion-policy congruence?
Page 157

12. Bell Ringer
What is political ideology?
What are the two ways political scientists measure the extent to which people have a political ideology?
Page 167

13. Bell Ringer
What are the political ideologies of Latin Americans (Cubans, Mexicans, Puerto Ricans)
What are the political ideologies of Asia Americans (Japanese, Koreans)?
Pages

14. Bell Ringer
What was the meaning of a liberal and a conservative before Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal?
Beginning around the Time of Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal how did the meaning of liberal and conservative change?
Read stop at political elites

15. Bell Ringer
Explain how information and peers are two reasons how citizens display ideological consistency on the conventional liberal-conservative spectrum
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