American Politics Study Guide
Quiz Study Guides
The American Political System (POLS21)
Fall 2012
Instructions: The following list of questions is designed to assist you in your reading of much of the course material. I strongly encourage you to write out full answers to each of these questions as you read the material for class. I will use these questions to formulate quiz and exam questions. For short-answer quizzes and exam questions you will have to answer a subset of the actual questions on the study guides for the assigned readings. For multiple-choice quizzes I will draft questions based on the study questions. I reserve the right to quiz or test you on additional material assigned and/or discussed in class during this semester that may not be on this study guide. You will have 15 minutes from the beginning of class to complete short-answer quizzes and 10 minutes to complete multiple-choice quizzes. Most quizzes will be announced one class period before they are given, but I may administer pop quizzes…from time to time (so always keep up with the reading!). Questions about the assigned readings from news articles are also a possibility on all quizzes. Quizzes will be closed book, no-notes, and individual exercises. This set of study guide questions will also act as your study guide for the final exam. Do note that the purpose of such exercises is for you to show me that you have read and understood the material and can communicate that understanding in writing.
Unspun, Jackson and Jamieson
Describe one instance each of Democratic and Republican deception discussed in unSpun.
Republican: Karl Rove, senior advisor to George W. Bush, gave a vigorously upbeat picture of the American economy, and nothing he said was absolutely false, yet the overall impression he tried to create was at times so divorced from reality as to seem unhinged.
Democratic: U.S. Bureau of Labor Stats reported that the economy had added another 75,000 jobs in the previous month and that
The American Political System (POLS21)
Fall 2012
Instructions: The following list of questions is designed to assist you in your reading of much of the course material. I strongly encourage you to write out full answers to each of these questions as you read the material for class. I will use these questions to formulate quiz and exam questions. For short-answer quizzes and exam questions you will have to answer a subset of the actual questions on the study guides for the assigned readings. For multiple-choice quizzes I will draft questions based on the study questions. I reserve the right to quiz or test you on additional material assigned and/or discussed in class during this semester that may not be on this study guide. You will have 15 minutes from the beginning of class to complete short-answer quizzes and 10 minutes to complete multiple-choice quizzes. Most quizzes will be announced one class period before they are given, but I may administer pop quizzes…from time to time (so always keep up with the reading!). Questions about the assigned readings from news articles are also a possibility on all quizzes. Quizzes will be closed book, no-notes, and individual exercises. This set of study guide questions will also act as your study guide for the final exam. Do note that the purpose of such exercises is for you to show me that you have read and understood the material and can communicate that understanding in writing.
Unspun, Jackson and Jamieson
Describe one instance each of Democratic and Republican deception discussed in unSpun.
Republican: Karl Rove, senior advisor to George W. Bush, gave a vigorously upbeat picture of the American economy, and nothing he said was absolutely false, yet the overall impression he tried to create was at times so divorced from reality as to seem unhinged.
Democratic: U.S. Bureau of Labor Stats reported that the economy had added another 75,000 jobs in the previous month and that