<p>lol i am ashamed to say i think i missed 4(e)
i thought that was the hardest part of the frq XD</p>
<p>if i got 23/25 on the free response and missed like 11 on the multiple choice,would i be good for a 5?</p>
<p>That’s far and beyond a 5 mrbh12</p>
<p>o_o Hopefully that’s what I got…
What about in regards to my other questions.</p>
<p>for 1(b) [checks on majority power] i said electoral college and senate
for 2(c) [how linkage institution is connected to the people] i said interest groups, and my reasons were collective benefits and lobbying
for 3(b) [how a bill can succeed more in a certain house] i said closed rule and filibuster</p>
<p>Would these be correct?</p>
<p>Also, will the free response answers be up any time before we get our scores back?</p>
<p>For 1(b) I said Bill of Rights and System of Checks and Balances.
2(c) I said the media.
3 (b) I said filibuster and closed/open rule and talked about the rules committee.</p>
<p>Sounds good to me, except I’m not sure about Bill of rights for 1B
What about mine…what do you think?</p>
<p>I don’t have my question set in front of me, but I found 1-3 to be a breeze.</p>
<p>I didn’t know the raw definiton of Policy agenda, so I bsed it (incorrectly)
So, I probably missed 4b too. I’d say that’s -3 points, so about 11/15.</p>
<p>The other three I nailed, but I was just shocked cause, with the exception of adding knowledge I already knew about Federalist 10, I didn’t need any specific examples… if I didn’t need them, then I feel I got a 45/45 on the other parts.</p>
<p>Also, I answered all the MC, but some I regret now, and one or two I feel really stupid for missing. (looked up afterwards)</p>
<p>In general, I feel that I made a five, so we probably all screwed up the curve and most people here got a “3” for missing 2 points overall. (That would suck!)</p>
<p>I put taxes as the linkage institution for #2c…my logic was that even people who don’t vote have to pay taxes and are likely to care about government (and write to their elected officials, go to protests, etc.) when it affects their finances. But since no one else has mentioned that I’m guessing it doesn’t really count as an institution :(. Still, I think I did well on the MC and the rest of the FR :-/.</p>
<p>I put referendums and initiatives as an example of a linkage institution hahahaha.</p>
<p>linkage institution? I put writing letters to congressman and supporting a campaign, neither of which you would necessarily vote for. People who can’t vote, for example, can still support a leader. I like the taxes, not so much like the referendums. I suppose they count though. It’s really in your presented argument. Initiatives are great though.</p>
<p>The textbook we and many other classes used defines linkage institutions as a structure that translate inputs from the public into outputs from the policymakers. Referendums are actual policymaking on the part of the people, sometimes completely circumventing policymakers (as with Proposition 8 here in California), so I don’t think they will be accepted. Paying ones taxes is following the law already cleared by policymakers. There is no real choice in the matter. If one wishes to change the law or have his or her tax dollars spent more wisely, he or she may go through a linkage institution to gain access to policymakers, or the input, which may or may not lead to action on it, or the output. Even those that are not citizens can participate in some linkage institutions; they just can not vote. </p>
<p>What the readers are very likely looking for this week are parties, elections, elected officials, interest groups, and the media or variants thereof. If they broadened it out too much more, not only would it be stretching the actual definition, but it would undoubtedly hurt those students who thoroughly understood the concept by putting their peers who may not have not understood it in the same scoring range.</p>
<p>bumppppppppp</p>
<p>We should create our own thread for this year…</p>