<p>What’d you guys get for the federal regulations on interest groups one (1c I believe)?</p>
<p>Interest groups must register with the federal government and provide a report on their spending. Also, they aren’t legally allowed to bribe Congressmen.</p>
<p>I spent 30 minutes at the end drawing a nice mountain sketch. 
It was kind of fun.</p>
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<p>Campaign Act of 1974 – Federal government limited campaign contributions to $100 personal soft money and $5,000 per candidate. 527s are unregulated. And McCain and some democrat created a bipartisan bill prohibiting soft money contributions a few years ago.</p>
<p>Monoclide, McCain and Feingold Act.</p>
<p>What did you get for 3C?? (the one asking about the different groups of people) Could someone post the question if you remember it, becuase I think I read it incorrectly. Also, what’s a judicial check on the bureaucracy? I put judicial injunctions (because I remembered it from my notes) but couldnt explain it becasue I didnt know what it was…haha. I also put they can hold hearings etc, but not sure if that would workk. I also dont know if a judicial injunction would be a Constitutional check…</p>
<p>The Catholics shifted to the Democratic Party (but I put Republicans, oh dear), the women shifted to the Democratic Party, and the social conservatives shifted to the Republican Party.</p>
<p>For my judicial check on the bureaucracy, I said that the Supreme Court lays down decisions that the bureaucracy must abide by, or something generic of that nature. I expounded upon it more on the exam, but I can’t for the life of me remember the specifics of what I put.</p>
<p>So what if I didnt say shifted…but explained that women were democratic, etc? I failed the Catholic part too as I put they were went to the Republican side also. 
That part got me, I hope it’s all I got wrong in the FRQs…</p>
<p>I said the Supreme Court can issue remedies or other settlements that restrict the bureaucracy’s actions. Like I said they would be forced to not discriminate or something along those lines.</p>
<p>That’s right, right?</p>
<p>For the FRQ with a graph, I also didn’t say which party they shifted from. It didn’t ask (I think), but at the end I decided to talk about the Southern regional realignment away from the Democrats hoping it might bloat my score a bit…</p>
<p>not sure skateme, but, I just realized, didnt the 3rd FRQ, part C, asked how 3 of the 4 following groups affected the composition of political parties? (or something like that?) Wouldnt that mean you didnt necessarily have to describe which party they belonged to…</p>
<p>Yeah. I guess everyone who just added the shifts are overachievers. I wasn’t sure about the Catholics on that one, so what I did was put which party each group was in. If I got 1 wrong, but the other 3 correct, would I still get the points?</p>
<p>I’ve read past scoring guidelines and they say ‘1 Point is earned for 3 of the following…’</p>
<p>7th Amendment could be a Constitutional provision that helps interest groups, right? Since they use litigation and all?</p>
<p>I thought Catholics shifted, although not overwhelmingly, to the Republicans because of abortion, gay marriage, etc.</p>
<p>I said that women have shifted from very liberal (feminist movement decades ago, burn your bra, equal pay, etc) to a less liberal and more moderate stance because of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and a statistic about pay equality (women’s magazine reported pay to .94:1). I said that the social conservatives have become more liberal (and less conservative) in stance because several social taboos have diminished over the years – the Civil Rights Act, again, and the increase of support for gay marriage, etc. And I did Union Workers and their shift from being very liberal to the point of being radical/socialist (early labor movements) to a more liberal stance and that less than 10% of the population belong to a union. </p>
<p>I ignored Catholics because they have traditionally voted dem/liberal and have not really changed all that much…</p>
<p>I said Catholics joined with Reagan and the moral majority, and that social conservatives also joined with Reagan as the Republican party changed from Rockefeller republicans to more socially conservative (with evangelical Christians).</p>
<p>FRQs are up:</p>
<p><a href=“Supporting Students from Day One to Exam Day – AP Central | College Board”>Supporting Students from Day One to Exam Day – AP Central | College Board;
<p>For Part B of FRQ2, what did you guys say? I said the division of power and authority makes it so that supervisors/managers aren’t the ones making decisions. I said that lower rank employees have discretionary authority and I also discussed the fact that they’re experts. Good?</p>
<p>catholics were republican until FDR pulled them to the Democrat side, where they have generally stayed (crash course said so)</p>
<p>I’d say it is solid.</p>
<p>I wrote about how a bureaucracy is restrictive in nature (red tape) and that each appointed official does a part of the task, ultimately accumulating throughout the agency to push one giant idea out. The complexity of the bureaucracy creates public policy problems because it is slow moving and requires the authorization of several individuals, which increases the likeliness for the rejection of a policy change, ultimately, creating an interdependency among bureaucrats and strengthening the agency as a whole.</p>
<p>I talked about how the bureaucracy was organized into 15 areas and further subdivided into bureaus so that specific issues could be addressed. Thank you Princeton Review.</p>
<p>what was the bureacracy merit system thing?</p>