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Questions:
1. What are the dangers that many political scientists see of media deregulation in the last few decades?
2. What are the three major functions of Congress? How does politics in the Senate differ from politics in the House, and how does a bill become a law?
3. What is the nature of the struggle between Congress and the presidency that began in the 20th century? How have presidential powers been expanded, and why? What are the limits to presidential powers? Give some recent examples.
4. Why has money become more important since the 1960s for Presidential election campaigns? What limitations are there on how much money can be spent on federal elections?
5. What are the advantages of a bureaucracy, and how does a public bureaucracy differ from a private one? How is the Federal bureaucracy held to account for its actions and what might be the inherent conflict between bureaucratic power and democratic values?
6. Why does the Supreme Court usually decide to hear a case? What are the political factors inside and outside the Supreme Court that influence the decision-making of the justices, and what are the differences between the main judicial philosophies?
7. Why might Californian have instituted a plural executive, term limits and a system of direct democracy (its plebiscites known as "propositions," "measures" and?"initiatives") into their constitution, and what have been the consequences?