US Gov and Politics

Roman Caposino Anica Bustamante Interest Group Assignment November 12, 2013 United States Chamber of Commerce

Roman Caposino November 24th, 2013 Chapter 13 #1-8 AP Government & Politics In the 21st century, the United States Congress has consistently received low approval ratings by both political experts and analysts and the public, yet over 90 percent of incumbents that seek reelection win, and usually be comfortable margins.

Roman Caposino September 27th, 2013 Chapter IV Questions AP Government & Politics The textbook defines a political culture as ?a patterned and sustained way if thinking about how economic and political life ought to be.? The nature of the political culture of our country is that democracy, majority rule, and minority rights are good things. A political ideology is a set of beliefs put forward by a government, and political culture is how people?s opinions on the political ideology changes based on real life events. Americans believe people should be equal politically but not economically, whereas in France or Great Britain, the belief tends to be the opposite. The Political System: Liberty: Rights of freedom.

Roman Caposino March 6th, 2014 Chapter 18 #1-5 AP Government & Politics When the economy is thriving, the government tends to spend more money. Unfortunately, when the economy is not thriving, or even if it is, the government still spends way more money than it makes, creating a huge deficit. Generally, voting behaviors of politicians and economic conditions are not always correlated, both at national and local levels. Politicians do not vote within their spending limit sometimes, because they know the federal government will pay for their deficit.

Roman Caposino October 21st, 2013 Chapter 9 #1-6 AP Government & Politics A political party is a group that seeks to elect candidates to public office by supplying them with a label?a ?party identification??by which they are known to the electorate. A party exists as a label in the minds of the voters, as an organization that recruits and campaigns for candidates, and as a set of leaders who try to organize and control the legislative and executive branches of government.