Political Science 102 Exam

Congress has power to make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers, and all other powers vested by this Constitution in the government of the United States, or in any department or officer thereof

Rationality, collective action, institutional principle, policy principle, history

All political behavior has a purpose - every decision=calculated - weigh probabilities and determine the personal value or outcome

Describes the paradoxes that are cause, obstacles that need to be overcome, adn the incentives necessary for individuals to accomplish a goal informal,formal bargaining

Informal = agreement without lawyer - give & take ex) neighbors cutting hedges formal= agreement with lawyers ex) divorce

Used to solve collective action problems ; take our the need to cooperate and bargain ; include jurisdiction, rules, agenda&veto power, delegation & principal agent theory

People get assigned the power ; authority, main players

The rules that are made for making the decisions by the jurisdiction

Agenda= who decides what is going to considered ; power to make or block proposes veto= power to defeat something even if put on agenda

Principal (us) delegates an agent (govt) power - simply an instrument for us to realize our goals

Output of govt trying to rationalloy persue their own goals ; distributive, redistributive, regulatory policies

Given to a particular group & distributing costs amongst the group

Takes from one group or class to give to another

Targets individual actors but not groups - regulate behavior, then modify and change - govt.

Need history, have to be aware of what happened in the past, can still affect the present & future - path dependency