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parliamentary system - correct answer ✔✔-Legislative and Executive functions are fused
-No direct votes for chief executive
-Vote only for one or more members of the legislature
-Legislators choose a prime minister (president/or other)
-Prime minister designates a cabinet
-Fast moving because of less checks and balances (goes through less people)
-Everything that happens, good or bad, the responsibility is on the party in charge
-Disadvantage for minority groups
presidential system - correct answer ✔✔-Citizens vote "directly" for a chief executive
-Executive branch vote is independent from legislative vote
-Executive designate cabinet members
-Legislative and executive functions are separated
-Divided government
-Slows everything down
bicameral- senate constituents - correct answer ✔✔elected statewide, 2 per state regardless of pop.
bicameral- house constituents - correct answer ✔✔House constituents: elected out of 435 regional
districts according to pop. (Approx. 750,000 people her district)
terms of service- senate - correct answer ✔✔serve for 6 years, ⅓ at a time, even numbered years
terms of service-house - correct answer ✔✔every 2 years, all at once, even numbered years
,committee system- functions - correct answer ✔✔-manage workload
-arenas for real debate
-foster expertise
-policy incubators
-Leadership reflects the party in majority
standing committee - correct answer ✔✔A permanent committee established in a legislature, usually
focusing on a policy area
select committee - correct answer ✔✔a committee appointed to deal with an issue or a problem not
suited to a standing committee
joint committee - correct answer ✔✔combined house-senate committees formed to coordinate
activities and expedite legislation in certain areas
conference committee - correct answer ✔✔temporary committees formed to reconcile differences in
house and senate versions of a bill
leadership- house - correct answer ✔✔-Majority/minority speaker
-Majority/minority Party leader
-Majority/minority whip systems
leadership- senate - correct answer ✔✔-Presiding officer
-President pro tempore
-Majority and minority party leaders
-Majority and minority whip systems
pro tempore - correct answer ✔✔temporary
, whips - correct answer ✔✔work to ensure their political party legislators attend voting sessions and vote
according to their official parties policies
functions of congress- representation - correct answer ✔✔The process of bringing the people's voice(s)
into government
delegate - correct answer ✔✔A person appointed or elected to represent others
trustee - correct answer ✔✔A legislator who acts according to their conscience and the broad interests
of the entire society.
burke's delima - correct answer ✔✔balance between delegates and trustees
politicos - correct answer ✔✔Attempt to combine the basic elements of the trustee, delegate, and
partisan roles
-Easy to decide your stance → delegate
-More complex and constituents are not informed → trustee
tools for representation for congress - correct answer ✔✔caucasus
Interest groups
Parties/ party leaders
The president
Staff
Staff agencies
caucasus - correct answer ✔✔group of representatives that come together to pursue shared goals
how representative is congress - correct answer ✔✔-Older than the average american
-Higher education than the average american
-Higher income and occupation than the average american
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