Articles

Chapter 1

Establishment Rules

Chapter 8 Elections

            527 Groups Campaign Finance Reform

            Dem White Male Voters

            Bush Pioneers

            Camp Finance 2003

            Limits on Campaign Finance 2003

            History of Campaign Finance

            Finance Reform

            Gerrymandering (should it be automatic)

            Marketing the Candidate

            Electoral Politics Issues

Chapter 9 interest group

            http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/07/magazine/07fob-wwln-t.html?ref=magazine Laws for sale—2010 article

            Think tank history (long but fascinating and informative)

            Jack Abramoff (lobbyist who’s currently in jail—Scandal)

            Looking positively at Interest Groups  (ex-Sen. John Breaux)

            Grassroots Lobbying

Chapter 10 Media

            Media Executive Branch Antagonism

            Media Bias, is it based on the custormer?

            Media-checking statistics            

            Media and Leaks

            Media, Spin and Background

Chapter 11- Congress

Filibusters

Tactics

Rules 2007

More on Rules

Pork Barrel

PORK

Congressional Research Service

Caucusing

Congress v. Executive Branch

Committee Chairs (2007)

Congress and the Courts -Terry Schiavo-

 

 

Chapter 12- Executive

            President as chief of party

            Recess Appointments

            Management Styles

            Salesman and the Bully Pulpit

            Power to Persuade

            Declaring War after WWII

            Line Item Veto

            Executive Orders and Rule Changes

            More on Executive Orders

            Role of Advisor

            Gridlock

            Executive Secrecy

            Executive Privilege

            Clinton v. Congress 1993

            Right to hire and fire—US Attorney issue 2007

                                   

Chapter 13- Bureaucracy

            Impact of the Hatch Act->go to jail

            An agency under siege (the old INS)

            Duplication and Red Tape

            Risking the wrath of your boss

            Trying to change the rules

            Executive Orders and Regulation

            Secrecy

            US Attorney

            Covering one’s Rear! How to do it

Chapter 14- Supreme Court

            The President v Chief Justice

            New appointees, do they stay the course?

Chapter 18- Civil Liberties               

            Restricting membership on campus- do religious groups using public funds/meeting areas have a constitutional right to exclude gays?