Sterling Test Prep AP U.S. Government and Politics: Complete Content Review for AP Exam

Book info: Sterling Test Prep AP U.S. Government and Politics: Complete Content Review for AP Exam (Paperback, 406 pages) – Sterling Test Prep, 2017. Language: English.

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Constitutional Underpinnings of the United States Government
· Considerations That Influenced the Formulation and Adoption of the Constitution
· Separation of Powers
· Checks and Balances
· Federalism
· Theories of a Democratic Government

Political Beliefs and Behaviors
· Beliefs That Citizens Hold About Their Government and Its Leaders
· Processes by Which Citizens Learn About Politics
· The Nature, Sources and Consequences of Public Opinion
· How Citizens Vote and Otherwise Participate in Political Life
· Factors That Influence Citizens to Differ From One Another in Terms of Political Beliefs and Behaviors

Political Parties, Interest Groups and Mass Media
· Political Parties and Elections
· Interest Groups, Including Political Action Committees (PACs)
· The Mass Media

Institutions of National Government: the Congress, the Presidency, the Bureaucracy and the Federal Courts
· The Major Formal and Informal Institutional Arrangements of Power
· Relationships Among These Four Institutions and Varying Balances of Power
· Linkages Between Institutions and the Following

Public Policy
· Policymaking in a Federal System
· The Formation of Policy Agendas
· The Role of Institutions in the Enactment of Policy
· The Role of the Bureaucracy and the Courts in Policy Implementation and Interpretation
· Linkages Between Policy Processes and the Following

Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
· The Development of Civil Liberties and Civil Rights by Judicial Interpretation
· Knowledge of Substantive Rights and Liberties
· The Impact of the Fourteenth Amendment on the Constitutional Development of Rights and Liberties

Appendix
· Court Systems Within the United States - Federal and State Courts
· The Declaration of Independence
· The Constitution of the United States
· The Bill of Rights of the United States
· Constitutional Amendments 11-27
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